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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

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

Please tell me there's a shorter way..

Having to do that 50 times is quite frustrating.

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

yes originally they are / were

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

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

sox isn't running D:

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).

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.

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.