I have a recording where I should keep only one channel of stereo (because a microphone had a problem). I should erase the other channel, and have the good one as mono on both channels – but I don’t see how I can do this step through the normal controls. There is ‘mixing stereo to mono’ control, but then it mixes the good and the useless channel, and when I set panorama to eliminate the useless one, I get only one side coming forth.
- from the Track Control Panel Split Stereo to Mono
- delete the unwanted track
- Ctrl+A to select all
- Ctrl+D to duplicate the track
- from the top track’s Track Control Panel Make Stereo Track
Peter
Hi Peter
Thank you for aour kind assistance. I work on version 3.0.3 on an old Mac, and on the Track Control I don’t see “Split Stereo to Mono” but only “Mix” with a choice of “mix and render” and “mix into new track and render” (this is a translation – my controls are in German).
Kind regards - Alec
A true-mono file will play through both speakers so after splitting you can just delete the unwanted channel.
If you make a WAV file it will be half the size. The compressed formats are “smart” and they won’t duplicate the data so you won’t save any space, but if you don’t make it mono it will be falsely “labeled” as “stereo”.
Oh that is where I can find the necessary elements
Thank you very much
Kind regards - Alec