Delay 5.1 Center Channel?

musicvid10 wrote on 11/3/2009, 1:07 PM

I'm probably forgetting something I knew a long time ago, but is there a way to apply a 10ms delay to the center channel (only) in a 5.1 project.

It's easy enough to apply Simple Delay at the track level, but that is panned all the way across. I'm wondering if there is a way to bus it to the center surround track without affecting the others?

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musicvid10 wrote on 11/5/2009, 7:07 AM

Any ideas? Kelly? Johns?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2009, 8:42 AM

well, you could move all the audio 10ms to the right... that would do it.

musicvid10 wrote on 11/5/2009, 8:47 AM

If I do that, the front audio is delayed equally across the left, center, and right channels.

My purpose is to delay the audio by ~5-10ms in the front Center channel (only), to give a little spatial acoustic depth to the front mix without radically changing my speaker placement.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2009, 9:14 AM

i assumed you're dealing with separate WAV files. But you can do that... render out to a 6 channel WAV then bring it back in & move the center WAV 10ms to the right.

but most sound systems let you delay individual speakers via the system setup. Both of mine did.

musicvid10 wrote on 11/5/2009, 9:24 AM

render out to a 6 channel WAV

That may be the solution. I'll try it this weekend!

fldave wrote on 11/5/2009, 10:06 AM

I throw a slight reverb on the center channel, works well. One of Spot's recommendations in one of his Vegas books. Lots of great tips in those!

musicvid10 wrote on 11/7/2009, 6:17 AM

I rendered to 5.1 wav64 and imported that, muting my other tracks of course.
This gave me discrete L/R, Middle, and Rear tracks to work with.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.