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Old 01-08-2010, 02:50 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by l0calh05t View Post
Don't know if this would work but what about using a delay modulated by a smooth but random signal? You could do the same with volume or eq modulated in a similar fashion to decorrelate the signals further.
it's still likely to sound weird. volume, delay and eq cues are used for perception of size, loudness and distance to a sound, and pitch modulation cues are used for whether something is moving towards you or away (e.g. doppler effect). slowly modulated short delays sound great, but they rarely sound like a proper doubling effect. unless the delay is too short, then it'll turn into a comb filter and it'll get weird.

there's a chart floating around that shows the psychoacoustic effect of delays from the 1ms to 500ms range, that's pretty interesting.

you really need an analysis/resynthesis tool to do it properly - formant mangling works pretty well.
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