Recordings come out MONO?

[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.

[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

[alboy]

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!

[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

[alboy]

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.