My tutorial is for making a sound clip seem like it starts in one ear, moves into both, then out the other. It’s useful to make things sound like they’re passing by you.

Step 1:

To start, you pick the audio clip that you want to apply this effect to. You can tell that I’ve already applied the effect to this clip because the top and bottom (left and right ears respectively) have different visuals.

Step 2:

Next you click the down arrow next to the name of the track that you’re working with. You select the “Split Stereo Track” option. This splits the top and bottom so that you can work them separately.

Step 3:

Select whichever side you want the sound to begin in. In my case, I picked the left ear (top track). Once it’s selected, you add the “Fade Out” effect to it. This makes it so that, throughout the clip, it gets quieter. But since you’ve split the left and right ears, it means that only this one will fade out.

Step 4:

After that, you select the other track and apply the “Fade In” effect to it. This gives the illusion of the sound not being in this ear at the beginning of the clip, but growing louder the whole time.

Step 5:

The last step is to rejoin the tracks. You do this by going into the drop down menu next to the top track and clicking “Make Stereo Track”. This makes it so you can no longer edit each track individually, and you can edit them as one. Rejoining them will make your life easier because you can move them precisely together, adjust the volume level of the clip uniformly, or do anything else you need without having to replicate it on the other half of the track.