Hello,
New user here, elementary stage at the moment.
I am converting an old cassette to CD-R which has about 20 seconds where only the right channel drops out in the middle of a piece in the original media.
I’d like to copy the left channel onto the right for that same section of time using Audacity, just to fill-out the missing music on the right channel.
It’s amateur organ music with not a great deal of L-R difference, so not looking for audio perfection, just an ok fix.
Is there a simple idiot guide to do this? so far I have not found the answer in the on-line help but would be glad of advice.
Thanks,
D.
OOPS sorry, meant to say Win 7, latest version 2.1.1, and exe
Select the track where the missing bit is and a bit either side.
Click the Zoom to Selection
Select again but only where the gap is
Apply a mono effect set too low to make a difference
That should do it
Re: copy left to missing right channel.
There is a Audacity plugin called “Channel Mixer” which does that …
Channel Mixer …
A multi-purpose tool that can perform almost any type of channel mixing task on an unsplit stereo track.
Typical uses include:
Copying one channel of a stereo track to the other channel >
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#[b]Channel_Mixer[/b]
You may have to use Audacity’s repair to hide the joins.
To disguise the fact the track has gone mono during the 20-second repair, you could apply pseudo-stereo to the whole track.
Many thanks for the advice.
I did get it fixed in the end, even if it did sound a bit odd.
The stumbling block before doing a cut and paste was figuring out how to separate the two L&R channels.
After that it was fairly plain sailing.
Thanks again.