Recording mic and guitar same time on mono

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hey all,

Not sure if the resolution to my woes is found in Audacity or my audio interfaces DAWS because I am very new to both. This seems like it should be easy but I’m having big troubles.

I want to do a simple, live recording of vocals and guitar in mono. I’m using two inputs, one for the mic and one for the electric-acoustic guitar. I am using Saffire 24 Pro DSP. It will only record either the mic or the guitar, but not both. I can get both going if I do it in stereo but then you have one track left and one right when I want them both in the middle.

For a quality recording, I record guitar first and lay vocals over it but some songs I just want to get out fast.

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Good - do that.
Then…
from the dropdown menu of the stereo track, select “Split Stereo to Mono” (see: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/splitting_and_joining_stereo_tracks.html)

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That will give you two mono tracks which will both play to both speakers. When you export, Audacity will push both tracks into one mono sound file.

Koz

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Wonderful! Thank you guys so much!