Duplicate left channel to right

[dylancohen]

I recorded about 50 audio tracks with a mono mic, and the recorder was recording in stereo. The outcome of this was that the left channel is playing the vocals that were recorded, and the right channel plays a consistent static.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this at all? If this is doable, can I do it via chains or any other batch method so as not to go to each 50 tracks individually and do this?

Thanks in advance,

Dylan

[kozikowski]

You shouldn't depend on Chains for anything. Chains is a very simple tool and only works in a very limited (but growing) list of filters and processes.

The little black down arrow to the left of your track reveals menus.

Split Stereo Track.
[x] delete the bad track.
Make Mono the one that's left.
Done

If that bothers you (and it bothers me, too)

Select the track.
Control-D will duplicate the track.
Make Stereo Track.
Done

There may be a shorter way, but that does work.

Koz

[dylancohen]

Please tell me there's a shorter way..

Having to do that 50 times is quite frustrating.

[steve]

What form are these recording in? Are they stereo WAV files?

[dylancohen]

yes originally they are / were

[steve]

See my first reply in this topic: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 85#p142248

[dylancohen]

damn, the one promising method looks like it wont work.

sox isn't running D:

[steve]

You will probably need to manually add the path to SoX in your environmental variables (or always change to the SoX directly before launching it).

[dylancohen]

Even after the install file?

I'm running x64 and the install file is for x32 so that might be the issue.

Regardless, time is running out.

[steve]

I'm trying to remember the last time I installed SoX on Windows, it was quite some time ago (I usually use Linux), but I think I had to manually add the path even after using the SoX installer (though without adding the path, if you open a command window and navigate to the folder where SoX is installed you should be able to run it.