How obviously audible is the stereo effect? I have always used a mono shotgun mic up until now,and have just bought my first stereo mic. I was expecting a LOT more stereo separation than I get.The waveform below shows the sound that is recorded onto a digital camera that is set up in the middle of my back garden pointing across it.The garden is about 25 feet long and I walk along it speaking at one end of it,in the middle and then at the other end of it.I then do hand claps in the same places. Under these conditions (no reflections etc),I'd have expected much more obvious left and right placement of where my voice was coming from,but even on headphones there seems to be almost no separation at all and the waveforms are almost identical mirror images. Is this as good as it gets straight out of the mic without any processing,or are the exagerated stereo effects we hear in the cinema and elsewhere just the result of processing,i.e. do I have to to use the panner control if I want something to move realsitically across the sound stage? It's main use will be for motorsports,so it would be nice to hear the car move across the soundstage as well as see it move across the screen.
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