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WillyB
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April 10, 2020
Question

How to record a stereo song in Stereo not left and right Mono

  • April 10, 2020
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Listen to Crosby Stills and Nash Song Wooden Ships, at the beginning of the song you hear one guy singing on the left and it changes to the right side when the other guy starts to sing. Audition is recording in stereo but it is converting it to left mono and right mono not true stereo.

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    MikeHarrison
    Inspiring
    April 10, 2020

    I'm not sure I understand (I've been recording and producing audio professionally since the mid 70s). I'll assume you've opened a new stereo file to record in, and that you can see the waveform draw as the song records. But, after recording, I don't get what you mean that Audition converts the file to left mono and right mono. What am I missing?

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    WillyBAuthor
    Participant
    April 10, 2020

     While playing the song and recording it, you can see the wave forms (Left and Right in Editor View) stay consistant even when the voices change from left to right, I can hear the change through head phones and the speakers, but in the reocrding the change does not happen. The sound out of the left and right side are the same, mono, it shouldd'nt be and I am recording in Stereo.

     

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    MikeHarrison
    Inspiring
    April 10, 2020

    Without being able to see the waveform or hear the audio myself, I can only guess, then, that even though you are recording in a stereo file, Audition's Audio Channel Mapping is not set correctly. If you are correct that the left and right waveforms stay consistant (I'm guessing you mean they appear identical), then you are recording both channels of the record on both audio tracks in Audition, even though you hear stereo while recording.

     

    Go to Audition's Audio Channel Mapping preference panel and make sure that the left and right channels of your source are feeding the corresponding channels in Audition.

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