Thanks.

Tried the first method and it seems OK.

Cheers

Similiar to Chien's reverb suggestion, if you duplicate your mono track to make 2 mono tracks, try offsetting one track by a very small amount to create a bit of a delay. A little bit goes a long way. This will widen the sound a bit. You may find that you need to adjust the relative volume between the tracks, as the delayed signal might sound a bit fainter.

G

P.S. Ever hear one of those old albums from the early/mid 60s with "Electronically Reprocessed to Simulate Stereo" on the cover? The ones I heard were hilariously bad sounding. Usually the original mono would be in one speaker, and some old spring reverb put in the other speaker. I had some old STones records from then, back when some labels would make 2 versions, one true stereo and the other, um, "reprocessed."

Thanks for the advice.

BTW way, while on the subject of old records does anyone know anything about quadraphonic vinyl LPs. I have a couple and never actually heard them on quad equipment. Wre they really worth the money?

Try out the ideas on the VideoFactory forum - stick in pseudo stereo in the search.

Grazie

I had one quadraphonic LP. According to the spiel on the jacket, the front left & right channels were encoded in the physical shape of the groove (as with a normal record) and the rear right & left channels were magnetically stored in a substrate embedded in the vinyl. Seems like a pretty ridiculous method to me. If you're going to go magnetic you might as well just use 4 track tape.

I have no idea how the rear channels sound though. I never encountered a quadraphonic turntable to play it on. The main stereo channels sounded fine on my stereo turntable.

Thanks.

I have used Cool Edit Pro before to acheive what I wanted but I'd like to do it with V4 if possible.

Thanks.

I have used Cool Edit Pro before to acheive what I wanted but I'd like to do it with V4 if possible.

Try this (an old pseudo M+S trick) -

Put the mono file on 2 tracks. Set the first track level to 0dB. Invert the phase of the second track and mute it to block it from the output bus.

Send a 0dB feed from the first track to Bus A, and a 0dB feed from the second track to Bus B.

Apply a 30mS Simple Delay to Bus A and B. Apply a high pass filter to Bus A, rolling off at around 100 Hz (may not be necessary, depending on wave audio content).

Unlock the faders for Bus A and B, and set A-Right and B-Left to -infinity. Fade up A-Left and B-Right until the stereo effect is what you want. (Ideally, these 2 would be locked together, but I couldn't find a way to do it.)

Adjust overall volume using the Master fader.

This works pretty well and you can hear the sound opening up, but don't overdo the Bus A and B levels. Also, you might need to adjust the delay value depending on the audio material.

Richard Hunter