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chk:
I've got a stealth stereo recording I made and the person a couple seats away (one of my daughters, ha) was a bit spirited in her sing-along'ing.

I'd like to selectively blend the recording to the other channel in certain sections of the show. Still want to retain as much of the true stereo image as I can but it's not super-critical (it's a stack recording of Zach Bryan from 3/31/24 and came out pretty good).

I am experienced with doing mixes/matrixes in Audacity. But in this case wondering if there's a straightforward way to do this? I know I can break the tracks out independently and fade in/fade out with the good channel / bad channel, but that seems like it would be pretty labor intensive.

Would love to be able to select certain sections in Audacity and make it two channel mono with the good channel, is something like that possible?

Not sure if there's an easier way to do this and am open to suggestions. I've tried RX and other software fixes, but this is too random and I've decided doing the channel combining is the best solution since it sounds pretty good that way.

Thanks guys.

-chk

if_then_else:
You could also cross-fade between the channels. (Respectively fade the "problematic" one out and in again.)

AbbyTaper:
If all you want to do is make certain sections dual mono, just copy the channel you want and paste it over the same section in the other channel.  It will be noticeable where the transitions are, obviously.

kuba e:
I don't use Audacity. But If_then_else says that it is possible to do crossfades in Audacity, then it should be easy. I don't know if I understood correctly. Do you have a second stereo source or just want to replace the right and left channels with each other which picked up less voices? The procedure is similar in both cases. The following is for replacing the left/right channel. Copy the desired left/right channel to a new stereo track. Adjust stereo width (e.g. free plugin ozone imager from izotope) on the new stereo track so that it is as close to original recording as possible. And then do a slower fade-in/fade-out for the original recording and the copy at the desired places.

Keep the original recording as well. Sometimes I talked to my friends while recording. I always tried to remove it. But over time, it's fun for me to listen to our conversations.

robgronotte:
Everyone who has kids, please teach them concert etiquette while they're young. If you're singing loud enough that others can hear you, you're singing too loud. And if you're talking loud enough that anyone other than the person you're talking to can hear you, you're talking too loud.

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