Duplicating audio to play in both channels

I want to take my audio for channel one and duplicate it so that the same audio plays out of both left and right channels. I can duplicate the audio and put it on the layer below but it just plays both layers our of the left channel. how can i make it play out of both left and right channels?
Thanks

It sounds like you originally had a stereo pair (a1/a2) that you unlinked, which gave you a Mono(a1) and a Mono(a2), and then you deleted one of them.
When you unlink a stereo pair, each resulting Mono track retains its original properties, including left or right channel assignment. This can be changed with the pan control in the Viewer.
When you duplicated the clip (a1 for sake of argument) and placed it on a new track, all you got was another copy that retained all the same characteristics of the original - including the left or right channel assignment. That's why you still only had audio from one channel.
The way to change this is to pan to center as I described above.

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