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Pseudostereophony Revisited

Authors: Faller, Christof

AES Convention 118 · Paper 6477 · May 2005

Abstract

Conventional stereophonic processes allow playback of mono audio signals with a stereo effect. The stereo effect is limited to mimicking ambience or signal independent left/right separation and thus no realistic sound stage is reproduced. This paper proposes two techniques for converting old mono recordings to two or more channel stereo signals with a realistic sound stage and ambience. One technique is fully automatic and imposes the auditory spatial image of a given modern stereo recording onto a corresponding old mono recording. The other technique is based on manual input of a sound engineer to generate a desired sound stage and ambience. The underlying mono-to-stereo synthesis process is the same as has been recently proposed for use in low bitrate audio coding.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 118
AES Convention
118
Paper number
6477
Publication date
May 6, 2005
Session subject
Miscellaneous Audio Topics
Affiliation
EPFL Lausanne (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper