Stereo to mono

how do I switch from stereo to mono in FCP?

also make sure you do not have "Downmix" enabled ... it is toggled On/Off by using the Downmix button in the Audio Mixer window, it looks like a bowtie, and sits just above the Master fader.

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Switching from stereo to mono...

is there a way i can switch from stereo to mono for recording volcals in garageband?if so...how??thanx much

In the Track Info window where you select your instrument or preset, you can also select the channel through which you record - either one channel (mono) or two (stereo). Set it to one channel.

How can I convert my iTunes media from stereo to mono?

Just a sound preference I would like to have. Lets keep it simple. (iTunes 10.6.1)

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102690
http://www.scansound.com/index.php/stereo-to-mono-adapter.html
Or you could buy a mono/one ear headset. http://www.beso.com/2699431644/detail

How to view 'stereo' vs 'mono' in GarageBand 10.0.2?

How to view 'stereo' vs 'mono' in GarageBand 10.0.2?
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Tjed wrote:
Could that have something to do with why I got no sound out of the external monitors (speaker)?
it's possible, if for instance the track was set to channel 1 (mono) and you were sending a signal on channel 2 (or any other channel your interface might offer), but you may want to start a new thread with this issue providing all background info for it

Can Compressor downmix from stereo to mono?

Seemingly simple question - when compressing DV/AIFFs to web H.264/AACs, is there a way to downmix from stereo(dual mono) to mono without boosting the level?
I don't care if it just uses the left channel, the right channel, or mixes both together - I just want it not to clip 0dB when it comes out mono. Is there a way to do this in Compressor?
(NOTE: without using the Peak Limiter filter to lower the level, which always seems to cause the job to fail)

First you have to split up the interleaved stereo file->in the Audio bin select "copy/convert" (or hit control+c) in the menue select "Interleaved->split" and tick the box "add to Audio bin"
Now switch Audio track 1 to "Left" at the very bottom of the channel strip->long click into the stereo symbol->menue opens->select "left"
Do the same on Audio track 2 in this case choosing "right" at the bottom of the channelstrip
Now select the reimported split stereo file in the bin and split it up into two seperate files in the edit menue->"split selected Split-Stereo-file"
You now have created two independendent files for left and right and can drag those onto your Audio tracks 1/2 in the Arrange - of course you need to pan track 1 to the left and track 2 to the right to retrieve your original stereo image

Can Compressor downmix from stereo (dual mono) to mono?

Seemingly simple question - when compressing DV/AIFFs to web H.264/AACs, is there a way to downmix from stereo(dual mono) to mono without boosting the level?
I don't care if it just uses the left channel, the right channel, or mixes both together - I just want it not to clip 0dB when it comes out mono. Is there a way to do this in Compressor?
(NOTE: without using the Peak Limiter filter to lower the level, which always seems to cause the job to fail)

I've been editing NLE for over 15 years and have never once used a "mono" track, never felt a need to, and Premiere tracks default to stereo normally, which matches my sources. All delivery is typically stereo anyway, so in the case you have with wanting to use just one mic, the Fill Left or Fill Right works perfectly to "Pan Center" so to speak. Hopefully this will suit your needs. Maybe I have tunnel vision and am not understanding how a mono track is uniquely useful, but always open to learning new things.
In the situation where I might need to switch mic sources from time to time within the same stereo clip, for instance a wedding with a shotgun and wireless lav, I just use the Razor to put cuts in the audio clip where I want to switch. I just alternate applying Fill Left or Fill Right to each cut segment as needed, and throw in an audio crossfade at the cut point for a smooth transition.
If I need to MIX the left and right channels in varying degrees of volume, I will duplicate the stereo track and apply Fill Left to one and Fill Right on the other and this has the same effect as two mono tracks, each centered. There's certainly many ways to accomplish the same thing with almost any aspect of editing and that's just how I do it, not wrong or right really.
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Jeff Pulera
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How can I switch my output audio from stereo to mono?

Hey,
I can only hear out of one ear and I would like to be able to listen to the other half of my music on my headphones, how can I switch my audio from stereo to mono?
Thanks!
Zach

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102690
http://www.scansound.com/index.php/stereo-to-mono-adapter.html
Or you could buy a mono/one ear headset. http://www.beso.com/2699431644/detail

I'm deaf in one ear and need a stereo-to-mono earbud so I can use my iPod and iPhone. It is not good being able to hear only one channel. Can Apple consider making such a thing for those of use who need such a thing?

I'm deaf in one ear and need a stereo-to-mono earbud so I can use my iPod and iPhone. It is not good being able to hear only one channel. Can Apple consider making such a thing for those of use who need such a thing?

bassvid wrote:
Thanks...now I need to do something about the iPod.
I'm not sure which version iPod you have, but I just checked my iPod nano (current generation) and it also has a Mono Audio setting in Settings>General>Accessibility.

Stereo-to-mono glitch when match-framing

While searching for an answer I found a posting from ChiaMac dated Nov. 15, 2005 which describes the same problem I am experiencing. I have pasted the post below. Does anyone have an answer ?
Hi,
Three different editing systems, all running OS 10.3.9 and FCP 4.5 -- an iBook G4, PowerMac G5, and PowerMac G4.
Quite often, when match-framing in the timeline to bring up a clip in the viewer, the viewer will show dual mono audio, whereas the source clip has stereo audio. Then, when I try to cut that viewer clip into the timeline, in this sequence or another, it will be dual mono. Quite irritating.
It is quite replicable. Not all clips will produce the stereo-mono result, but it is replicable with the same clips over and over.
The "linked selection" has no effect on the process, no one has pressed command-L by mistake, and all audio settings on each of the systems are set to capture and output in stereo.
Is this a known FCP 4.5 HD glitch? I haven't seen it listed anywhere when I've searched for it. Any ideas, suggestions...?

>When converting a file from stereo to mono, Audition severely suppresses the amplitude of the entire file. This happens when using both the Convert Sample Rate method, as well as exporting a file from multi-track.
>It gets weirder: files that were recorded quite a while back will process this conversion just fine, but newer ones will not. All files are recorded in 16-bit 44100 stereo and saved as a Windows PCM wav file - so as far as I can tell there is no difference and I'm simply confounded.
Generally when this happens, it means that there isn't that much stereo (ie, difference between the two channels) in the file anyway, and one of these two channels is inverted - so that what happens when you combine them is that the 'mono' parts then cancel out, rather than add together, and all that's left is the difference - which looks pretty much like what you've got.
To test this, the thing to do is to select one channel only in EV, and invert its polarity (Effects>Invert). If you now get more like the waveform you were expecting when you convert to mono, then you've found the cause. But not necessarily the reason for it...

Re-Capturing Media with original settings but with Stereo not Mono Selected

Hi,
I am trying to re-capture about 17 hours of interviews that I just shot in Africa over the past month. It has all been digitized with the audio set to Mono instead of Stereo (in my jet lagged mindset I forgot to set to Stereo)! I need the stereo setting as I always had a wireless lav on the subject and a wired lav on the interpreter and I need to be able to split them out in the sequence. I have already built sequences with all the interviews and a timecode window burn for my client, which sounds fine for simple timecode logging, so I would like to reconnect so that all of those sequences will remain intact.
So when I try to go recapture, whether I delete the original clip OR just make it offline and save the new captured clip to a different location, it automatically captures in Mono, as that is what is set in the original clip under Audio Tracks in the browser. It will not let me change that setting in the Browser, and stereo is definitely selected under Audio Clip settings in Log and Capture.
I have to think there is a way to do this so that I can save my original clip information, without having to reset all new in and out points and recapture it all with the exact same name to a different drive so it works in my sequences.
I don't need to recapture the 18 or so hours of b-roll thank goodness! As it was all shot with a mono shotgun.
Also, when I go to recapture the clip a warning comes up and says I am trying to capture media shot in Non Drop Frame on a device set to Drop Frame..etc etc etc.
I did shoot in non drop frame but I have not changed anything on my deck (Sony DSR-11) and don't even think there is a switch to go between the two. If I try to simply capture a new clip I get no such warning? It seems to play fine regardless but I wonder if I will have issues down the road integrating the new clips in with the b roll.
Many Thanks,
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Peter Mallamo

If both tracks are in the sequence, then just select one side, and in FCP's Modify menu (audio submenu there), pan all to one side, then select the other track and pan all to the other... you can change the stereo to mono and mono to stereo too in that same menu... no need to recapture at all. Do this mono to stereo move simply by selecting the clips in the sequence, and checking on or off the stereo pair selection...
Jerry
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Stereo or Mono? Which? And why?

Once again I'm starting a new thread to explain some general audio principles that newbies have trouble with.
There's an issue here that's a bit difficult to explain--the difference between "stereo" and "mono".
You have two ears, so you hear "stereo". Your ears send a left signal and right signal to your brain. Your brain processes the difference between the two signals and gives you a sense of direction. You can figure out where the sound you are hearing is coming from.
Originally, recording technology only permitted mono recording. One microphone, and one speaker to play it back. When you listen to recordings made before about 1962, you are listening to a mono recording. If you have a modern stereo and you are playing back a recording from before 1962, you are getting signals out of your left and right speaker, but the signals are identical. You are just getting mono out of two speakers.
Originally "stereo" meant placing two microphones on something--one to represent what the left ear would hear, and one to represent what the right ear would hear.
However, when you take one microphone and plug it into a recording device, you can only record a mono track. Your recording device might permit you to record what you think is stereo, but in reality you are only recording two identical mono tracks.
A guitar also has a plug that comes out of it that sends a mono signal.
Nowadays we create fake stereo inside the recording device by means of what we call a digital reverb or digital delay. This device takes a mono input (such as from a single microphone or from a single guitar cord) and simulates the sound as if it were playing in a much larger room, with positional information included--placing something in a simulated position in the stereo field and creating a simulated left stereo channel and a simulated right stereo channel.
So if you record one input, and put no effects on it, you get mono. If you run it through a stereo reverb or a stereo delay, you get simulated stereo.
If you put an acoustic guitar in a large, reverberant room, and set up two microphones, one on the left side of the room and one on the right side of the room, and record the two mono mike signals to a stereo track on your digital recorder, then you get real live stereo.
When you play a software instrument in GarageBand, it records it as a stereo signal. What you are usually getting is in fact a monophonic sample that is processed through a stereo reverb, simulating stereo. In some cases, it may actually be a digitally sampled musical instrument that was sampled in stereo, with two microphones, like the example of the guitar in the reverberant room that I mentioned above. Software instruments of drum kits and acoustic pianos are examples of instruments that are usually sampled as real or artificial stereo to begin with.
Beginners think "stereo" is the right way to record, and "mono" is not. But this has nothing to do with the right way to record, and has nothing to do with wheter it's a high quality recording. If you are recording through only one microphone, or only one guitar cord, this is mono, and that's right.

Good points, Wheat. And when you record from several sources, and combine them and mix them, panning things to "set the stage" you get a stereo mix, of mono recordings. SI, the final result is stereo, not necessarily each individual piece of the recording. Of course, a drum kit can be recorded in stereo, as well as some keyboards that are actually stereo. But most things you hear on CDs are a compilation of mono tracks, panned to create the stereo image you hear.

Is iMac line in, stereo or mono

I'm hooking up my microKORG keybard to my iMac via the line in. I'm curious as to if the line in is stereo or mono.
TIA!
Wayne

It is stereo with a separate left and right. So, if you want both channels, then use a stereo cable.
They do make Mini-Stereo cables that have both left and right channels, so make sure that you get one of those. And, make sure that the device you are recording from outputs both left and right.
If you use a mono cable, you'll only hear audio through 1 speaker / channel.
Unless you specifically use a mono cable that hits both the left and right connectors on the jack.

Question about stereo vs. mono tracks. (Very basic, but appreciate help)

I’m still a little confused about Stereo Vs. Mono tracks when recording in Logic. (This might sound stupid, but I’m still getting confused by this stuff.)
When first recording a track, do you guys usually do it in mono or stereo?
Secondly, I’m still confused about the benefits or stereo tracks. Why not just record mono and then pan a track left or right when mixing? I’m just not getting the concept of stereo recording. I know these are very basic questions, but I’ve read numerous books and I’m still a little in the dark on this. Thanks for the help!

Most of the things I record are done on mono tracks. Each piece of a kit goes to its own channel, then I pan things accordingly later (Overhead L & R, etc.).
You only need to record in stereo if you actually have a source that is stereo, i.e. a keyboard with stereo fx and L&R outputs, but even then I usually just set up two mono tracks, one for L and one for R. I would do a similar thing if I was using a stereo pair to mic something.
You can always make a mono track stereo later as well using a variety of plug-ins.

Icon Stereo or Mono

Apple. It woukd be reaely nice if i could look at an audio Icon and tell if it was a Stereo or Mono file
This would save me a lot of time an space
G4D 500 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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Stereo vs mono in garage band?

This may sound like a dumb question, I thought I knew about stereo vs mono all my life, but I don't. Even though I have been a full time professional musician all my life.
I just conected my new firepod to garage band 3. It works great.
1. But I am finding I can select channels 1&2 stereo, 3&4, 5&6, etc. However it won't let me activate the red record button on 2, 4, 6, etc since it tells me it's all ready chosen.
2. I understand I can simultaneously record 4 stereo tracks or 8 mono tracks
(5 and 10 if you include the line in on the back)
My problem is that the mics are mono. ( I don't have sereo mics) So when I select stereo am I really getting stereo? If not, can I record in mono and select stereo afterwards? Or duplicate the mono track and pan one slightly left or right. I know that is not true stereo but I can't really say why.
example problem: Upright piano with two mics, one near the bass end one near the high to middle. Does this need to take up 4 of my firepon inputs to have them be stereo? Can 1 mic be channel 1 and the other be channel 2?
Currently It won't let me unless they are selected as mono tracks.
Will someone please enlighten me?
thanks
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You only use the stereo settings for a stereo source. Your mics are not stereo, therefore you should select MONO. You will then get a track that you can pan anywhere in the stereo spectrum you like, which is what you really want. Once you are done recording several tracks, and mix them, panning them where you like them, the "mix" will be stereo. Your "tracks" should always be mono, unless you have something like a stereo keyboard.

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