I am in Audacity 3.3.3 and there is no way to change channels from Mono to Stereo. Am I wrong?
You can’t convert mono to true-stereo… What are you trying to accomplish?
A true-mono file will play through both speakers.
A single instrument or voice is mono except “wide” instruments like a piano or drum kit can be recoded in stereo (with 2 or more microphones).
There are some “fake stereo” effects but Audacity doesn’t have one built-in.
Hello, I am recording student voiceovers for a documentary film. It seems the mono track is quiter than the stereo track. I can’t get the voice between -12 and -6 decimals with mono. There used to be a stereo track with I liked better and now its gone.
I assume you’re are you recording in mono with a stereo audio interface?
When you do that, Audacity cuts the signals in half (-6dB) so you don’t exceed 0dB both inputs are combined (summed) to mono.
You have two options -
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Run the Amplify or Normalize effect after recording. (Normally you should be leaving some headroom when recording so you are probably doing that already.)
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Record in stereo and delete the silent channel to create mono.
If you want to record a single mic as “looks like stereo” 2 channel recording use a splitter/combiner adaptor OR make up a lead… to connect the mic to both Left and Right imput of your PC input… and then set Audacity settings Recording to 2 channels.
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