Mixdown to Stereo

When you have done all of your edits and cleanups and are getting ready to mix your tracks down to stereo, go into the Track menus of the individual tracks and assign them to the appropriate left, right, and mono channels. Left tracks go to the left channel at mixdown, right tracks go to the right channel, and mono tracks are mapped to both channels. In Audacity, the top channel of a stereo track is the left channel, and the bottom one is the right channel.

Note

To learn more about cleaning up your tracks, fixing problems, and special effects, see Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 12, and Chapter 11.

The Pan slider adjusts the left-right balance on mono and stereo tracks.

Figure 9-30. The Pan slider adjusts ...

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