Reverse panning?

[Rolland]

Hi, recently I recorded a number of songs onto my harddisk using cakewalk. After mixing them down
I realized I made a big mistake - All of the songs were panned opposite! This was because my speakers were wrongly connected.

Now I don't know how to change them back to the panning that I want. I tried to reverse the panning of the entire song as 2 tracks in cakewalk, but this resulted in poor stereo spreading.

Please help me with this, is there any way I can reverse the panning of the song in a computer? Thanks!

[Fishmed]

Do you mixdown to an external device (Tape, DAT, MiniDisk, etc.)?

If so, just reverse the left/right of the input cables to your recorder.

If you mix internally in Cakewalk, change the panning of the individual tracks before you mix it.

[Rolland]

oops....I always delete the individual tracks after mixing down to save disk space. But there's hope in your advice. I'll try switching the stereo cables connecting the computer to tape recorder.

If that still doesn't work then guess I shall have to call it art.

[Slackmaster2K]

1) Mixdown the mixdown with panning reversed. Sounds silly but it should work.

2) Find a shareware wave editor (look for a "swap L&R channels" function or something similar)...

3) Split the stereo track into two mono tracks, then "restereoize" (my own term) them bassackwards.

4) Look real close at cakewalk...I wouldn't be suprised if there's something in there that'll do this.

5) Instruct your listeners to turn around when listening to your music.

Slackmaster 2000

[Dom Franco]

What difference does it make? Who is going to know that the guitar was supposed to be on the left..and now it's on the right? Who's to say that you didn't want it that way?

Dom Franco

[Slackmaster2K]

What if you're doing a mix of the hokey pokey eh? "Put your left foot in, take your left foot out..." If you have "put your left foot in" coming out of the right speaker, you're likely to blow the mind of anyone screwed up enough to listen the hokey pokey.

Which I guess just strenghtens your point. Who cares?

Slackmaster 2000

[drstawl]

It's more of a power thing. You want to be able to prove to yourself that you can manipulate the file in this way to get comfortable with what exactly is expected to happen in any particular digital transformation. It may be meaningless in this context, but if used on selections throughout the piece, it might provide an interesting effect. Multiple sudden stereo field reversals.