control levels on right and left channels

Merrill wrote on 10/19/2015, 8:04 AM

Hi. I am new to this version of Sony Vegas and can't find back old ways to do simple things.

How can I change the separate levels of my right and left stereo channel to help hide one overmodulated track? In fact I could want to do any effect separate and differen t to a right or left track. Isn't this possible from the timeline? This is usually so easy to do and I can't figure out, though I did see the "channels" in the main edit menu. Thanks.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 10/19/2015, 12:13 PM

Copy your audio track to another duplicate track. Right-mouse-button click on the audio in one of them and in the pop-up menu choose Channels / left only, and in the other choose right only. You now have the left channel on one track and the right channel on the other.

Doug_Marshall wrote on 11/20/2015, 10:56 PM

I would add that you would then need to adjust the track pan controls to full left and full right to keep the stereo image intact.

Chienworks wrote on 11/21/2015, 8:36 AM

Of course! Thanks, Doug.

Geoff_Wood wrote on 11/22/2015, 4:49 PM

And if doing different FX on each channel things could end up very weird !

geoff

rraud wrote on 11/23/2015, 3:23 PM

When choosing stereo file's L-R channels individually, by default the mono channel will be panned dead center, which for most dialog is where it should be. For instance, a lavaliere on one channel, a boom on the other.