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Guys Im a idiot i had a session with a vocalist and at the time i was recording It I could not figure out how to record in stereo so rather that have the vocalist wait and get pissed, I did the whole session in mono ... is there a way to convert the tracks to stereo without it sounding jacked ... please your help is needed thanks

Actually I think it's the other way round. You recorded a mono source to a stereo track and now you want it centered. No?

Try inserting a Utility with zero width.

Or are you really trying to do the impossible?

no i recorded it in mono and it needs to be in stereo . is this not possible ?

if you need the actual .wav file to be stereo you could use soundforge channel converter. or with live you could simply render with no fx. The rendered output will be your stereo .wav. I dont really see why you would want to do this anyway since all clips are treated as stereo nomatter what they are. Just insert pretty much any stereo fx like phaser, auto filter, chorus...etc on your mono clip and the output will be stereo.

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OK. What, apart from being mono, is the matter with the original recording? If it's really mono, it can't be converted to stereo in any relevant sense. As the other poster says, you can still do stereo things to it in Live. Or pan it. Or anything.

My original post hinted at a misunderstanding of mono and stereo. Sorry if it sounded crude.

also i be surprised if your mic is stereo. most are mono. sitll you cant make it stereo now so don't worry.

Sounds like the inputs were set to "1/2", and the mic only used the left channel ("mono"), so that there is only sound in one channel.


In that case (and in so many others) the utility plugin is your friend.

Couldn't you also just put the mono wave file on two seperate audio tracks and pan them left and right accordingly?

bgone wrote:Couldn't you also just put the mono wave file on two seperate audio tracks and pan them left and right accordingly?

2 identical, aligned mono tracks hard panned L + R will still be mono to your ears. Is the problem that he only hears the vocal out of one side (per Machinate), otherwise I don't get what the issue is?

hitechfunk wrote:no i recorded it in mono and it needs to be in stereo . is this not possible ?

Record another vocal on another track for a total of 2 vocal takes. Pan one to the left and the other to the right.

Viola, stereo vocals