Audacity Forum

Your posts should have numbers in them. We need to build an accurate picture of your system in our imaginations.

Koz

http://www.proaudiostar.com/presonus-au ... fgodFQYAcw

Koz

To revisit the original question. It's recording one channel Mono, or recording Left-Only of a stereo show? If your USB device is dedicated, single-microphone device, it may well record in mono. There's only one microphone. My Shure X2U records in mono. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/x2uShur...

In that case I don't see why updating Soundflower should help Punch line to the old joke. "So to make my wife happy, I changed the domelight bulb. Not only did the car start, but the radio which hasn't worked in six months came to life." Soundflower's job is to produce abnormal, unusual s...

there does not seem to be a way to get it easily.

At all. There is no direct relationship between the voiceless mono track and the original stereo show.
Koz

If Mid was really "pure," then you'd never be able to get back to Left and Right simple stereo from a recorder that shoots Mid-Side. MID says: "I have a flute." SIDE says: "put it over there." FM Stereo is Mid-Side. It's very efficient. There is no simple algebraic way ...

Did you set Audacity Preferences to Stereo?

On the right in the toolbar.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/de ... olbar.html

Koz

I know sometimes Windows will step in and force mono if it thinks you plugged in a microphone instead of a stereo device.
I don't know how to prevent that, however.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tu ... rding.html

Koz

Oh, and the more compressed and MP3-ised your presentation is, the less likely the tools are to work. So if you're doing this on a ratty download, success may elude you, even if you do get the tools to work.

Koz

So that's Center Pan Isolation, the exact opposite of Center Pan Removal or Audacity Vocal Removal. You would think that the effect is a simple revision of the arithmetic used in Vocal Removal, but no matter what you do, you're missing one vital term in the calculations. http://manual.audacityteam.o...