benashadgmail.com Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 i have a segment of an audio region that is in stereo format that i need to convert to mono. its a vocal. i must have accidentally created a stereo track and recorded my vocal on that. is there anyway to convert this audio region segment to mono? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 You could bounce it through a mono output. You could split the stereo file and rename one of the two splits. You could rout the output to a bus and use that bus to record on a mono track... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinloops Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 If you accidentally recorded a mono signal to stereo, both left and right tracks will be identical so you don't need to make a 'sum' track of the two sides. Instead bounce to split tracks (second option mentioned by Eric). You find that in bounce options, 'file type' (select split). Then just trash one of the mono tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Or just don't worry about it and place your stereo recording on a mono audio track: L and R will be summed at the input of the channel strip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myouzik Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 This is the exact issue I'm having right now (I was sent stereo stems of vocals & drums for a mix). When I switched all the channels to mono using channel mode, it disabled panning. Although all my panning was still set how I needed it for those tracks, they all just played up the middle. Panning knob moves, but no panning seems to occur. Is there something I'm missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myouzik Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Scratch that, I figured it out. The now mono tracks weren't panning because I had them in a track stack, and I had mistakenly flipped the summing stack track to mono as well. I guess for some reason, that causes a loss of panning ability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Scratch that, I figured it out. The now mono tracks weren't panning because I had them in a track stack, and I had mistakenly flipped the summing stack track to mono as well. I guess for some reason, that causes a loss of panning ability? Yes, if you sum a stereo signal (the panned individual tracks) to mono (the input of the stack) then you're essentially summing the L and R signal so losing all the individual tracks' panning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myouzik Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Ok, got it. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 You're welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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