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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?

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

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)