Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Audacity trick

On Friday 12 October 2007, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Is anyone any good with Audacity? I'm remastering an old tape and I've
> just remember that (be it recorded 18 years ago or my having a fairly naff
> stereo at the time) the right channel is largely hiss. Given I'm not too
> bothered about the quality - what I'd ideally like to do is "double up" the
> left channel so I effectively lose the stereo and have the left signal
> playing out of both speakers.
>
> I do realise I could use some tricks on Audacity to turn down the hiss and
> turn up what signal as there is on the right channel - but I suspect my
> method is far simpler. Besides which, as I say, the right signal is
> something like 80% hiss and 20% music so not worth it.
>
> So is this possible and if so how? I can't see anything obvious on the
> effects menu.

Hi Rob

On the Audio Track's drop down menu (the one at the start of the recording
itself, not on the main menu) there is an option to "split stereo track",
once split you can delete the bad channel, then highlight the remaining track
and go to Edit menu and choose "Duplicate", then from the drop down menu on
the new track choose "Right Channel", finally, from the drop down menu on the
original track choose "Make Stereo Track".

This will give you the Left channel's signal out of both speakers.

I hope that makes sense

HTH

David
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