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From: "David Rozzell" <hantslug@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:12 PM
Subject: 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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David
Thanks - worked a treat.
Cheers
Rob
