Topic: can you copy and paste a channel on top of another?

[deadheadcorey]

I recorded a band tonight and I didn't have any opitions on setting up, so I had to set up about 3 feet from drums and had mics a little below waist line.. basically a on stage recording wasn't able to split the mics. Set one I had the mics NOS at 90 degress and set two NOS at 110 degress

Anyways can I in Wavelab6, take say the left channel and copy n paste it on the right channel and then do it vice versa?

Thanks for any input any one might have

[Gordon]

sure you can but I fail to see why you need to in this case.  maybe I'm missing something.

[deadheadcorey]

Well one channel has  bass and guitar and the other channel has the midi sax and keys/ acoustic guitar... 

[runonce]

Well one channel has  bass and guitar and the other channel has the midi sax and keys/ acoustic guitar...

PAN!

[Gordon]

ah thought you meant replacing a channel with the other.  so in your case you could pan as suggested above or you can mix them together in the montage in wavelab.  personally if it's two channels onstage I expect something like you described and that is that.  that is a true stereo mix if you think about it

[deadheadcorey]

ah thought you meant replacing a channel with the other.  so in your case you could pan as suggested above or you can mix them together in the montage in wavelab.  personally if it's two channels onstage I expect something like you described and that is that.  that is a true stereo mix if you think about it

Yea sorry, I should've been more detail in my post..

So how do I do this "pan"?  I'm gonna pull up wavelab now and try and find this montage aswell.

[bgreen]

Open wavelab and load your files.

Go to file (top left hand corner) > New > audio montage

Pick your sample rate

Now, in the new window that pops up on the left you should see a few small buttons clear on the left, no fx and one that says "1".

What I would do is hit the "1" > add mono track

Now either repeat 4 times or go to the "1" and hit clone track until you have as many tracks as you need

then go to your stereo track, hit the "1" and delete it

Now, go to your recorded tracks, highlight and copy each individual channel and copy and paste them into the mono tracks you just made.

Now you have all 4 channels you recorded in wavelab

If you right click on each track in montage view and look toward the bottom of the window that pops up you will see "show envelope". Select this and then go to "pan".

Now if you click on the center line of each channel and drag, the line will move to represent where you want the channel positioned in your final mix.

Hope that makes sense.

[deadheadcorey]

Could I also just use the audio dispatching aswell?

[bgreen]

You mean the L/R on the right hand pane?

yep, if you want to do nothing but hard pan far left and right, that works as well.

[deadheadcorey]

You mean the L/R on the right hand pane?

yep, if you want to do nothing but hard pan far left and right, that works as well.

this is what I ended up with final mix  down....

http://www.archive.org/details/TPandEM2011-05-04

[bgreen]

sounds good man. nice work.