Audacity only recording left channel drivers#
Audacity only recording left channel windows#

You will get one single mono wave which will play to both speakers. Once we get this sorted, you will usually not get two blue sound waves. Nothing is ever that simple, however, you will probably find that the overload point isn’t 100% any more. You see your waves went from peaking at about 50% (normal) to peaking more like 25%. That’s the blank look we’re giving each other.ĦdB on the bouncing sound meters works out to half on the blue sound waves.

Audacity only recording left channel drivers#

And that’s where the hand-holding between the device, the drivers and Audacity has to be addressed. Somewhere, we have to convince the system to completely ignore all microphones past 1 and treat that single microphone as single channel. What doesn’t work so well is each microphone appears half volume. No problem, we reduce the volume of each microphone by half, so when they add up and double, everything comes out even. The volume doubles and that can cause permanent overload and sound damage.

That’s dangerous because what happens when the two microphones are listening to the exact same performance. Everything is expecting one single microphone and performance through the whole chain.īut what happens when the services don’t match? One scenario has the system straight mixing the two microphones into one channel in Audacity. The decision appears to be in Audacity because switching between services in Audacity seems to give the volume is why I recommend single channel interfaces such as the Scarlett Solo and the Behringer UM2 and UMC22. The difference between “Mix down to one channel for recording” and “Select the first channel of many for recording.” Ideally, I don’t want to have to remove a microphone and reset the mixer every time I’m only using the single mic, so I was wondering if there was a switch or setting to toggle to get “stereo” sound from a single mic. As you can see, the bottom looks significantly…thinner? Less robust? And both are only heard on the single side. The top is Stereo and the bottom is Mono.

Audacity only recording left channel windows#

This is an image of the current physical setup:Īs you can see, I do have two XLR mics regularly plugged in, which is why I also have this as my default Windows settings:Īs someone mentioned, my main microphone is in input 1, and this is the different in wavelengths when I record in Stereo vs.

I thought the Scarlett 2i4 was USB, but only because it connects via Firewire to a USB port.

So I’m going to provide a bunch of details and pictures to make sure we’re on the same page. I’m not necessary new to audio and video production, but I am a little out of my depth with my complicated technical specifics. Okay, so some of this stuff went over my head, and some of it didn’t.