Adjusting left/right sound balance

I have some "play along" music tracks to practice playing musical instruments with. Many have just drums, bass and piano, with bass and piano panned to extreme left and right. To practice bass, for example, one adjusts the balance to extreme right to remove the bass part from the recording. I have not found a way to do this on my iPod or on iTunes. Is it possible?
Either playing the right channel only (this is what a traditional balance control would do) or playing the right channel through both stereo channels would be good solutions. Alternatively, can one preprocess the track in some way to replace both channels by the right channel in the sound file itself?
Unfortunately it isn't possible to adjust the balance on the iPod dock (with speakers) that I'm using.
Many thanks in anticipation

Well, keep experimenting with the left/right panning and the various parameters you can program into the reverb effect!
There are no rules with regard to recording and mixing, but traditionally the bass drum, the bass guitar, and the lead vocal are mixed in the center, and the other instruments and harmony vocals are spread out to the left and right to varying degrees. The different drums in the drum kit are often panned to different positions mimicking the physical layout of the drum kit (left to right).
As far as reverb goes, realize that you can set different amounts and kinds of reverbs on different instrumental and vocal tracks; you don't have to send every instrument to the same stereo reverb effect. If you do so, you'll lose the ability to position sounds where you want them to be. The other element is the wet/dry mix. When you send a sound to a reverb effect, you decide what percentage of the signal goes to the effect (wet) and what percentage bypasses the reverb and goes straight out to the left and right speakers (dry) according to the pan setting for that track.
Listen to your CD collection. Pick some music that you like that is similar in style to what you are recording. Play a song over and over again and take note of where each instrument is placed in the stereo field. Then learn how to replicate that effect in your GarageBand tracks using panning and reverb. Studying well-recorded music is the best way to figure out how to do things on your own.

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You might do well in calibrating your audio outputs.
Here's a quickie:
1. Turn OFF your speaker system. Failure to do so will not only blow them up, it might get you evicted...or thrown out from your parent's...or the neighbor going after you with a shotgun, you get the picture. I won't be held responsible if you skip this step, and become deaf as a result.
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3. check your audio device's output level meters. they should MATCH. If not, there is an issue with your audio device. consult the mfr to get this fixed ASAP. If this step is ok, move on to no.4.
4. If you have a mixer after your audio device, look at the INPUT GAIN on the channels that your main outputs from your audio device are fed into. Put the left channel into SOLO, and calibrate the input gain so it clips, and tehn back it off just slightly, until no clipping occurs. Do the same for the right channel.
5. Set the OUTPUT of the mixer faders to 0, and pan each channel hard left and hard right, respectively (ch1 left, ch2 right, etc.)
6. Look at the mixer's OUTPUT meters. Do they match? If they do NOT match, you need to contact the mfr of the mixer, and have this fixed ASAP/ If they DO match, then proceed to step 7.
7. Look at the amplifier that your speakers are hooked up to : does it have an INPUT gain knob? If it does, then you can calibrate your speaker amplifier. If it does not, REPLACE this speaker amp with one that DOES have input gain knobs. If it does have input knobs, you now can calibrate the speaker levels. Go to step 8.
8. With a good SPL (Sound Pressure Level) meter, place the meter on a mic stand or other sturdy device, and place it in your mix position, pointing towards the exact middle of your speaker spread (exactly between the speakers). Turn the meter on, and set it to read 80dB sensitivity.
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10. MUTE the right speaker output. You can do this on your mixer, by muting the left channel. then turn up the monitoring level up until you get the same 80dB. What is the level difference? Note this.
11. MUTE the left channel, and turn on the right channel. turn up / down the monitorin levle until you reach 80dB. What is the difference? not this too.
12. On the speaker gain knobs, notice where they are BEFORE you calibrate the speaker amplifiers.
13. Put your monitor level back to about 10 am position. This one is the one on the mixer. NOt the one on the speaker amp!!!
14. While still on the RIGHT channel only playback, notice where the level meter is now. Adjust the RIGHT speaker input so that it reads 80dB upon playback at the 10am position on the mixer monitoring knob.
15. MUTE the Right playback, and turn on the Left channel playback. notice where the level meter is, and adjust the LEFT speaker input until you get the 80dB.
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