Stereo wav to mono?

[gjb3]

I spent the better part of this weekend tracking bass and guitar parts, with the intention of recording each track in mono so it could be panned as necessary later. Unfortunately (and I don't know why this happened - anyone? Bueller?) about half of the tracks I recorded came out as stereo wav files, so "panning" hard doesn't work - the sound is still almost dead center even after a "hard" pan. What is the best and easiest way to change these to mono wavs?

-J

 

[GringoKC]

edit - > split stereo track, then delete one.

 

[gjb3]

Thanks, but I had tried that without luck. I get a message saying that these are mono tracks and can't be split.

Here's the deal: on the track list, certain tracks are listed as stereo and others as mono. When I pan the stereo tracks hard left (for example) the sound remains dead center, but the track meter indicates all of the sound is on the left side. That's the weird part...the meters are showing what I would expect to happen, but the sound remains in the center. Also, the mono tracks can be panned normally.

Ideas...?

 

[gjb3]

OK, here's new information...turns out that all of the tracks are doing it, even those that are "mono" and (before today) would pan correctly. I tested by loading the drum tracks in fruity loops and comparing to the wav drums in n-tracks. In FL, the toms are clearly panned across the stereo spectrum, but the wav version of the drums in n-tracks doesn't have that (anymore)...everything sounds dead center. Since I have the stero output when I test in FL, my guess is that it's not a soundcard issue, it's something in n-tracks that is making my output do this. Any suggestions are appreciated.

-J