I am tryin to mix a track for my band
One channel is the music faded to the right and the other track is click only faded to the left. But The track bleeds over into the music channel… So it is not panning fully to the left? Please can anyone help me? I am new to audacity also .
See here for how to split a stereo track into two mono tracks: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/splitting_and_joining_stereo_tracks.html
After splitting to two mono tracks you may mute or delete the click track.
If after that there is still some “bleed” from the click on the music track, it will have happened during the recording (possibly someone’s headphones too loud? Not panned fully on the desk?) and unfortunately you are stuck with it.
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Its not bleeding over from when they recorded it… cause when I mute the click track there is nothing on the right side except music. So you are saying I just need to make sure both the channels are set to mono ?
Making sure I described that correctly I imported one file with just music background and the other file with click only… So they are already split It just doesn’t pan all the way??
I don’t know what you mean by that. How are you panning it?
cause when I mute the click track there is nothing on the right side except music. So you are saying I just need to make sure both the channels are set to mono ?
You should be able to split both tracks to mono and delete the click track.
Ok Sorry Here is my scenario better described.
I opened a stereo music track in audacity
and then I imported an audio (Stereo track I guess cause that’s what it says) That just has the click stem.
I aligned the 2 up There is a L-----R Pan button assuming I moved the music to the right and the click channel to the left but when I listen to it I can here the click in the left ear Strong but I can still hear it in the right ear… If I mute the click track it eliminates the click in both ears. ( Showing that it wasn’t a click accidentally recorded on the music track.
Please someone help me… I figured this was super simple… On some tracks I did it worked great and on most its allowing the click channel to bleed over into the right ear (or in my case coming through our main speakers)
My guess is that your sound card settings are apply some sort of “environmental” effect (some sort of reverb effect) that is causing some of each channel to appear in the other.
Check your sound card settings and ensure that all effects are turned off.
I had this exact same problem, and I found out that it was not actually a problem with the panning in the file when exported, it was just a problem in the playback within Audacity or on my specific computer running Audacity. That is, even though I was hearing bleed through from tracks that were panned 100% to one side, I went ahead and exported the audio file and then when I listened to it on a separate device, it sounded how it should (clean left and right, no bleed through).
It’s your computer, not Audacity: a pseudo surround-sound “audio enhancement”
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/disable-audio-enhancements