left mon wave and right mono wave to stereo

haydenj wrote on 10/28/2002, 6:27 PM
I did a stereo recording using two mics to capture the right and the left side on separate tracks on to a digital recorder. The results are two 44.1kHz uncompressed 16 bit wave files. I wanted to convert not to combine these two mono files with the left mono on the left stereo channel and the right mono file on the right stereo channel into a stereo wave file so that I can burn it on a CD. There are some problems I am having to what it seems to be a simple question. First when I combine them to a stereo file I seems to be getting parts of both wave files on each channel and how do I keep track of what mono tracks will go to what left or right channel in a stereo file. I did many searches here and on google and I am surprised that I could not find a clear answer. I am currently using Vegas Video. The software that I have seen does not make it clear what is the right or left channel in a stereo file. I am quite puzzled by this. Thanks for your help.

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Chienworks wrote on 10/28/2002, 10:50 PM
Place the left file on track one and the right file on track two. Pan track one hard left and track two hard right. Burn to CD or render to a new stereo .wav file.
haydenj wrote on 10/29/2002, 4:21 PM
That seems to work. Next question I have is that peaks are near cliping in the mono files but appear to be clipping in the stereo file. Is there any levels limit in a stereo file? Do I have the same headroom in a stereo file as compared to a mono file?

John
TeeCee wrote on 10/30/2002, 10:23 AM
John:
Did you pan the files fully? It sounds like they had some bleed to each other. That would cause them to clip as each was already at max. As long as your track faders and master fader are all at zero and you aren't adding FX or anything.

TeeCee
haydenj wrote on 11/12/2002, 12:44 PM
Thanks so far I wonder if there is a way of previewing the levels that the new stereo file will be before saving it from the mono wave files? Otherwise it is a hit and miss seting the audio levels and checking the new stereo wave file from the two mono files. Since I am using the two mics as a stereo pair at same time there will be some bleed between the channels as so to speak. The digital Fostex recorder that I am using records separate Wave files on each tracks from the two mics. If not is there a program that can do this? I tried to do so research in this but there seems to be limited information. Thanks for all your help.
Cold wrote on 11/12/2002, 7:37 PM
Perhaps try using soundforge. If your going to use Vegas, drop the track level by 6db on both of your channels. The panning function of Vegas adds 6db to a hard panned mono track.
haydenj wrote on 11/20/2002, 11:07 AM
I understand what you saying and it seems to work okay but what about the constant power in the pan setting. Would that work as well or is it different in this case?