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Title: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: in2blues on May 10, 2010, 04:54:38 PM

I don't know if I can fix this and could use some advice. I did a Soundboard with one channel just vocals, and Drums,Bass and guitar in the other. The vocal channel is much louder then the other. I tried just raising level of weak channel and this helped but I really don't like the sound of recording with vocals only in one channel. I was thinking of combining both channels to Mono, then splitting mono recording to two channels so vocals and band mix both in both channels(fake stereo). I am limited on my computer skills. Any suggestions or comments?

Title: Re: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: rhinowing on May 10, 2010, 04:57:33 PM

This is pretty easy to do, and should only require Audacity. I'd be glad to walk you through it via IM if you'd like, or I can post a step-by-step here

Title: Re: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: jefflester on May 10, 2010, 05:14:05 PM

I don't think you want to mix straight to mono. You could add some left channel to the right and some right channel to the left to get a more balanced sound. You can experiment with how much to add to the other channel.

Title: Re: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: in2blues on May 11, 2010, 06:52:38 AM

Quote from: rhinowing on May 10, 2010, 04:57:33 PM

This is pretty easy to do, and should only require Audacity. I'd be glad to walk you through it via IM if you'd like, or I can post a step-by-step here

Thank you, I will look into Audacity, do they have any step by step guide that I can look at?  Thank you for all the help!

Title: Re: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: runonce on May 11, 2010, 08:46:47 AM

Open Audacity

File > Import > Audio

One the track dropdown, "Split Stereo Track"

Copy the band channel,  Paste

Now you will have 3 channels

Mark the two band channels as L and R

Mark the vocal channel mono, and use the tracks slider to  mix to taste.

Save

Export

(actually, you could probably get by just marking  both channels as mono and get the same result)

If you want to get fancy, you can make some subtle eq changes on the L/R chanels to create a fake stereo feel...But I'd think the mono version will sound pretty good.

Title: Re: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: admkrk on May 11, 2010, 05:08:39 PM

that's pretty much what i would do. except i'd use 4 tracks with each having a r and l track. then adjust the envelopes to suit.

Title: Re: Can Soundboard be improved?
Post by: in2blues on May 12, 2010, 07:06:41 AM

Thanks, I have new hopes for a better sounding board recording.