Help with "3D sound"

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Lyfephorm

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Okay...I'm trying to figure out how to get that whole "3D sound" that professional recordings seem to have, rather than producing everything in mono (sounds like crap). I've managed to somewhat produce the effect I'm looking for by recording in stereo with 2 mics...one recording to the left channel and the other recording to the right and the mics positioned a few feet away from eachother, but needless to say it's a hastle. When I looked into possible answers I came up with something about "panning" the sound or something, but when I tried panning the sound in Goldwave (yeah, I know...not exactly the best home recording program there is), but all I could make that do is take the "2D" sound and move it to the left or right speaker (not the desired effect). Is there a program that can take a mono recording and "render it in 3D", so to speak? Any help would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance.

Brian
 
You'll need to do a lot of playing around to understand how this works and then you'll need to know how to make the right moves.
Not a simple thing.

Play around with some of these ideas and repost....
* Take any sound and pan it left and right.
What do you hear in the image?
* Take any sound and lower the volume and the opposite.
What do you hear changes in the image?
* Take a mix and listen to were the low and high freq's are placed in the image.
what can you define as higher and what as lower.
* Combine the 3 panning, volume and low-high freq content and see you sound move back and foward and higer and lower.

Start with that and repost. There is so much more but first controll the panning-volume - freq content and your starting to
actully control your sound.
 
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