Topic: vocals slammed all the way to one side

[cybergaloot]

I made two recordings this weekend where the vocals are coming mostly or all from one side. Both were recorded at the stage lip. I should have centered the mics on the vocalist but, well, I wasn't thinking. So, I am thinking maybe a way to make things sound a bit more normal would be to mix the two tracks into a third  mono track then mixing that track back into the left & right channels to move the vocals closer to center while still having some stereo effect. Does this make sense or is there a better way of solving this problem?

[boojum]

Why not just use your audio editor to pan the vocal to where you want it?

[cybergaloot]

What I have on one recording is vocals and acoustic resonator guitar hard left, snare drum hard right, bass somewhere in the middle. They were playing unplugged outdoors with no PA. I think if I pan the left channel over to center things, the snare will be shoved way down in the mix.

The other recording has guitar and vocals hard right with standup bass hard left, drums in the middle. I'm using Audacity for editing. I have access to Soundforge if needed.

[OOK]

What I have on one recording is vocals and acoustic resonator guitar hard left, snare drum hard right, bass somewhere in the middle. They were playing unplugged outdoors with no PA. I think if I pan the left channel over to center things, the snare will be shoved way down in the mix.

The other recording has guitar and vocals hard right with standup bass hard left, drums in the middle. I'm using Audacity for editing. I have access to Soundforge if needed.

use sound forge.  Covert both channels to mono, then back to stereo, this will create a dual mono recording.  Then use the multitap delay to recreate the stereo affect.  Play with the mutlitap......its does a great job.... hope this helps

OOK

[boyacrobat]

got it right in your first post
do that and listen well

put up show in editor, duplicate track as many times you need and play with panning
balance between stereo  and mono for something better

g

[OOK]

Why not just use your audio editor to pan the vocal to where you want it?

If you were running multitrack this is what I would do...but it you were doing twotrack try my above suggestion.

Peace OOK