I want to record voice and guitar at the same time with one on the left side of a stereo track and the other on the right.
I hoped that by taking a stereo output from the mixer into the computer it would simply 'happen'!
OK, I am humbled - it didn't!
Is there a way?
Recording in stereo
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Re: Recording in stereo
It depends on what mixer you have and what controls there are on it for each channel.
If there are "Pan" controls, then you can pan the guitar completely to the left and the voice completely to the right, and they will end up separately on the left and right tracks.
PO'L
If there are "Pan" controls, then you can pan the guitar completely to the left and the voice completely to the right, and they will end up separately on the left and right tracks.
PO'L
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Re: Recording in stereo
Thanks Irish.
When I do what you say and then use headphones to monitor the output straight from the mixer I hear the guitar on one side and the voice on the other - so far so good!
But when I take the same output into the computer microphone socket (using a lead with stereo jacks at both ends) Audacity records a stereo track, but exactly the same thing is recorded on the left as on the right - a combination of both tracks!
What I want is to have the guitar alone on one track and the voice alone on the other.
Can this be done with Audacity? If not, can it be done with other software?
But if Audacity can do it, then am I doing something wrong or is it perhaps a problem with my computer?
When I do what you say and then use headphones to monitor the output straight from the mixer I hear the guitar on one side and the voice on the other - so far so good!
But when I take the same output into the computer microphone socket (using a lead with stereo jacks at both ends) Audacity records a stereo track, but exactly the same thing is recorded on the left as on the right - a combination of both tracks!
What I want is to have the guitar alone on one track and the voice alone on the other.
Can this be done with Audacity? If not, can it be done with other software?
But if Audacity can do it, then am I doing something wrong or is it perhaps a problem with my computer?
Re: Recording in stereo
That's the problem.tooc wrote:when I take the same output into the computer microphone socket
The microphone jack is a mono input, so what you are getting is a mono performance duplicated on both tracks.
If your computer is a desktop PC, then it should have a stereo line-in jack, but most laptops only have a mic socket. If that's the case, then you will need a USB sound card which will connect the stereo output from your mixer into the computer via the USB socket.
This thread
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9477
has details of several USB sound cards which work well with Audacity.
PO'L
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