How can I split a track that has two channels?

[carlasm]

Hello all,

Thanks for your help. I have a speaker who has the left channel for his main mic and the right channel is a microphone that he will take into the audience for questions, but that is on all the time.

I would like to be able to adjust the volume on only the right channel and I can't do that as it is unless I can split the channels, I guess.

Any ideas?

[kozikowski]

Yes, that's how it's done. Either the envelope tool (two white arrows and bent blue line) or select portions and amplify.

When you get to the right production mix, you can re-combine to stereo and then mix to mono (in Audacity 1.3) or select and copy/paste into two stereo shows and combine that into one stereo show -- really two-track mono.

All of these tools are enormously handy in Audacity 1.3 compared to 1.2. A migration to 1.3 is highly recommended
Koz

[steve]

In Audacity 1.3.11 (recommended), click on the name of the track, and from the drop down menu select "Split to Mono".*
You can now adjust the (mono) tracks independently.
(*this option is not available in 1.2.6, which makes the process a lot more complicated)