It's a Question of Noobiness

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Greetings fellow HR-ites, it's been a while. And I come with tidings of great noobery. Here's the story:

Ok so I've got me some songs all put together instrumentally in Reason and imported one over into Cubase to lay down some vocals right, but then... once I've recorded the first verse, I play it back to find that the track I've just made is only playing back in my left earphone. With thoughts of "Hm, that's odd" I look over to my Audiobox and switch my mics position from the socket on the left to the one on the right and try again. This time I only hear my voice on the right side come playback. Right about then is when the clouds up above part to let down a golden shaft of light upon my noobish head as I had the revelation of my lifetime, which went something like: "WOW, THAT's why there's 2 sockets instead of just 1! Duh-HYUCK!!"

Of course this epiphany led to the instant realization that I needs to get me a different cable, but that requires leaving my teepee in the lost woods to go on a two hour train ride to Toyko, and there are no such plans on my calendar in the immediate future.

So I tried panning one of the tracks I had made to the opposite side and all that did was adjust the volume downward. Then, in a final attempt to do something, I put a reverb effect on it and panned it somewhat opposite again which actually did get me sound on both sides but it sounded really poo.

So... That be what's up, my friends. Yeah, point an laugh at my foolishness. But if anyone could toss me out a morsel of wisdom as to any fancy-pants tricks I can do to turn a one-sided recording into a centered one, which I would like to use until the dreaded treck to the city whenever that might be, I'd be eternally grateful indeed.

Please & thank you good sirs and mams. :guitar:
 
What you need to do is record to a mono track. Project>Add Track>Audio>select mono from the drop down menu>Add Track.

Setup your input Bus. 'F4' to get to VST Connections. Add a mono input bus and select the source from your interface for it. Then in the inspector window on the left of project window, select the mono bus as your track input. See pic:
 

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Wow, with an explanatory screenshot and errthang. Thank you, kind sah. I'll go try that and iffens I don't come back a-moanin' and groanin', we'll asume it all worked out. :)
 
Well. That was incredibly simple. An worked like a charm. But rather than dolin' out mo boring-ass thank yas, I think I'm-a just dub you the "Duke of Hell Yeah."

Haha. Peace, Duke of Hell Yeah! I'm off to record! :listeningmusic:
 
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