From: salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (Bob Salnick)
Subject: Re:  TECH: Quad Sound Helmet System?
Date: 28 Mar 92 15:06:55 GMT
Organization: Not Organized


In article <1992Mar25.151957.9524@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
dstamp@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Dave Stampe-Psy+Eng) writes:
>
>
>thinman@netcom.com (Lance Norskog) writes:
>
>>>Well we have been toying with the idea of setting up such a system.
>>>We are using a 386 platform - and would like to place two Sound
>>>Blaster Pro Boards in the machine (The Pro option is stereo). This
>>>gives us the four channels.
>
>You're missing something here: if you want to do quadrophonic
>sound alone, you can use one sound source and 4 computer-controlled
>volume controls.  If you add a delayed (OK: just use a 2 KHz LPF,
>it works almost as well) crosstalk component between the left and 
>right channels, you should get pretty good results (or about as
>good as you can with plain quadrophonic sound).

You get 4 channels on an Amiga 500, for less than $350 - consider the rest of
the computer to be a freebie...

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