Topic: Fixing defective recording

[lds490]

Hello,
I made my first recording the other night.  The show was the Wayne Shorter Quartet.  My rig:  

AT 831 (SP-CMC-2) > Core Sound Mic 2496 > Core Sound PDAudio-CF (IPAQ 5555)

I'll post some photos and some impressions of the Core Sound PDA recording setup in the next couple of days.

As the subject line of this post indicates, I did have some problems.  I purchased the AT mics from Sound Professionals that are wired for phantom power.  They have a mini xlr connector which plugs into a "phantom power adaptor" made by Samson.  One of these adaptors was defective and as a result the right channel did not record.  I did check the levels during the show, but did not notice the problem.  I don't know why I didn't notice it, it should have been obvious (newbie mistake).

Anyway, the left channel recording sounds fantastic and I am hoping to salvage the show.  I realize that it will never be a perfect stereo recording, but is there any way to fix it so that the left channel signal plays on both channels?  I could do this easily in analog using a splitter, but is there any software I can use to accomplish this digitally?

Thanks.

LDS

[drumminj]

You most definitely can do this, quite easily in Wavelab, Cool Edit Pro, or Soundforge.  I think soundforge has a free trial, if you don't have any of these.  A free editor like Goldwave would probably let you do this as well.  My buddy had the same issue with a recording a few months back.  Much better to have a mono recording than no recording at all!!

J

[F.O.Bean]

yep, just keep the good channel, and mirror it to the other channel!!!

[lds490]

Thanks,
It turns out that this was a much easier process than I expected.  The recording sounds pretty good, I think.

[Billy Mumphrey]

post a clip man, I'd love to check this out.

where were running? what config?