how to converts stereo to mono

[me_101]

I USE ADOBE AUDITON CS6
I want to pan my vocals. But I can't seem to pan the mono vocals.
Mono tracks do not have a pan option.
Even if i put the mono recording in a stereo track and pan that, its not working.
Even if i convert the mono recording to a stereo one (using the effect preset already present in audition), it still wont pan.

[jimmys69]

Moved this to the Adobe Audition Forum for ya.

I'm sure there is a way to pan your vocals. Someone here will surely help out.

[Bobbsy]

Actually, you have it a bit backwards. You can pan mono tracks but not stereo ones (since, with a stereo recording, Audition assumes the stereo image is fixed).

A couple things to make sure of:

-Panning only works in multitrack view.
-The output for your multitrack session has to be set to stereo

Once you're in multitrack with a stereo output, there are several ways you can pan your track:

-You can use the pan control in the header at the left end of each track in multitrack
-You can use the pan control on the mixer view
-You can use the pan envelope control on the track itself in MT view--useful if you want to programme in a move as part of the mix.

Hope this helps.

[me_101]

Moved this to the Adobe Audition Forum for ya.

I'm sure there is a way to pan your vocals. Someone here will surely help out.

thank-you.

[me_101]

Actually, you have it a bit backwards. You can pan mono tracks but not stereo ones (since, with a stereo recording, Audition assumes the stereo image is fixed).

A couple things to make sure of:

-Panning only works in multitrack view.
-The output for your multitrack session has to be set to stereo

Once you're in multitrack with a stereo output, there are several ways you can pan your track:

-You can use the pan control in the header at the left end of each track in multitrack
-You can use the pan control on the mixer view
-You can use the pan envelope control on the track itself in MT view--useful if you want to programme in a move as part of the mix.

Hope this helps.

Yes this definitely helped. I changed the output on the track to a 'stereo something' from 'master' and the panning was working again.
So here's another question- will i have to change the output on every individual track that i want to pan? will this affect the mix in any adverse way? because the output on the other tracks will be set to 'master'....

[Bobbsy]

Normally, rather than have to go through and change individual tracks, you'd just set up for a stereo master when you create the session--easy peasy!

It's just because you obviously ended up with a mono master by accident, making panning pointless.

[me_101]

Normally, rather than have to go through and change individual tracks, you'd just set up for a stereo master when you create the session--easy peasy!

It's just because you obviously ended up with a mono master by accident, making panning pointless.

yes that would seem obvious but my microphone records mono. so my session has to be mono. so....?

[me_101]

Yes this definitely helped. I changed the output on the track to a 'stereo something' from 'master' and the panning was working again.
So here's another question- will i have to change the output on every individual track that i want to pan? will this affect the mix in any adverse way? because the output on the other tracks will be set to 'master'....

There seems to be another problem now. When I change the output on one track to master. It somehow affects the other tracks too...... x_x

[Bobbsy]

yes that would seem obvious but my microphone records mono. so my session has to be mono. so....?

Not a problem.

When you hit "New Session" the screen that comes up allows you to name the session, select sample rate/bit depth, etc. and also select your Master as Mono, Stereo or 5.1. You can select any of these without affecting your layout of individual tracks.

Pretty well all microphones are mono so it's absolutely the norm to have lots of mono tracks and use the pan control to create the soundstage you want on your mixed master. Indeed, the settings I listed above would normally be Audition's default so, at some point, you've accidentally changed something.

[me_101]

Not a problem.

When you hit "New Session" the screen that comes up allows you to name the session, select sample rate/bit depth, etc. and also select your Master as Mono, Stereo or 5.1. You can select any of these without affecting your layout of individual tracks.

so if i select my master as mono, all the tracks will be mono. and mono tracks do NOT have the panning knob.