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Recordings come out MONO?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:30 am
by alboy
Does anyone know what settings to change to make recordings come out in stereo. At the moment only the left channel records and the right channel is silence.
Ive changed the option in properties to "record in stereo". Im sure its something simple I need to do. Its a bit of a pain having to split the track each time, deleting the silent channel and making the left channel mono.
Re: Recordings come out MONO?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:31 pm
by TSMusic
What are you recording with? A guitar chord with an adapter going into the Line IN jack? If that's the case it's going to come out mono.
Best to record the track mono, duplicate the track and then make a stereo track out of them.
You could try making up a cable that goes from the guitar into 1/8 stereo plug with the center wire going to both the left and right channel tabs on the plug but I don't know that you won't have problems with signal loss doing that.
Tony
Re: Recordings come out MONO?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:07 am
by alboy
TSMusic wrote:What are you recording with? A guitar chord with an adapter going into the Line IN jack? If that's the case it's going to come out mono.
Best to record the track mono, duplicate the track and then make a stereo track out of them.
You could try making up a cable that goes from the guitar into 1/8 stereo plug with the center wire going to both the left and right channel tabs on the plug but I don't know that you won't have problems with signal loss doing that.
Tony
Im using a cable from guitar to a stereo jack and into the line in port. The thing is before my computer crashed and I was using Audacity 1.2 this wasnt a problem and it recorded in stereo. The microphone comes out stereo (using 1.3) so why doesnt the line in? I dont understand why using a guitar means the signal is going to be mono, that just makes no sense at all!
Re: Recordings come out MONO?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:50 am
by kozikowski
You should be able to plug one of these in between your existing cable and the sound card to get your sound on both sides.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2102690
The microphone connection is mono...
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnecto ... ctors.html
...and the computer "knows" to route that single microphone signal to both left and right because that's what most people want. Line-In has two individual discrete sound channels in the connector, but your guitar cable only has signal on the tip, so it shows up Left only.
Koz
Re: Recordings come out MONO?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:40 pm
by alboy
kozikowski wrote:You should be able to plug one of these in between your existing cable and the sound card to get your sound on both sides.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2102690
The microphone connection is mono...
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audioconnecto ... ctors.html
...and the computer "knows" to route that single microphone signal to both left and right because that's what most people want. Line-In has two individual discrete sound channels in the connector, but your guitar cable only has signal on the tip, so it shows up Left only.
Koz
Ok cheers guys. think ill just stick to mono then.