Adjusting levels in stereo sample

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hello all, my first post here. This may be a naive question, but at least it should be an easy one as well.

I have some samples I made with synths (risers, crashes,one-shots and so on), some of which are uneven or hit unevenly at first on the left and right sides. Is there something - short of making it mono, then stereo again - that I can use to have the sample remain in stereo, but to equalize the volume content on both sides? Too many of these samples in a project requires always checking the left/right balance on the finished product. (Although I must admit that some of them really do have a nice auto-panning effect without the use of any extra processing - but that’s obviously not the point here).

Thanks for your time.

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Try Split Stereo Track in the Audio Track Dropdown Menu then use the Envelope Tool on separately on each channel to suit.

You may want to Zoom in.


Gale

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Thanks very much for the help, looks like the only way to do it. Thought there might have been some summing/leveling tool to just mix the two.

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You could use Effect > Normalize… with “Normalize stereo channels independently” enabled. But I thought you may want to exert finer control on the shape than that.


Gale