Did you not notice you have both tracks selected, so when you change the pan knob on one it also effects the other one so you're pretty much undoing the panning you did on the previous track. And the fact that you're raising the volume on one track has no effect on the merged result, because merging is a pre-fader effect. You'd have to bounce in place, control b and make sure it's set to stereo. Unless it's going to hard panned L and R, you should just keep it mono until your final print. IF you do what you just did, then you have two signals being welded and if you have phase issues, they cannot be solved by flipping the phase since both signals are slightly coming out of both L and R
Thank you for this. I have an old synth that gets recorded L and R vs stereo but I will keep everything separate because I can see where phase issues may crop up during the mixing process.
At 0:53 when you pan the Right track, the pan knob on the Left track follows it; going back to the middle. I think this is an issue when you created the track using the duplicate track function. The controls are not independent. In any case could you explain the intent of panning the tracks before joining. Don't they go fully left and right regardless of the pan setting?
Correct. I'd hope that the common viewer of this video would understand that unfortunately, some things just aren't as easy as copy pasting. Otherwise, tracking guitars would get done in HALF or even a quarter of the time!
Great, thanks for the video. Just to let you know, you panned both channels at the same time as you had them both highlighted, so it didn't get the effect you were looking for. Other than that, great video, thanks very much!
THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED , QUICK AND TO THE POINT IN THE FIRST part of the video. In watching the rest just purely to give you the view. THANK YOU. SUB EARNED!!!!
You never panned the top track left You had both tracks selected. So when you panned track 2 to the right track 1 went back to center. Lol I do it to from time to time too
Hi Russell. It depends on the keyboard sound. For a bass sound, I will normally use mono, but for a pad sound that pans I would use stereo. I hope this helps, Tomas.
microphones record in mono because they only have one membrane. you could either get two microphones or a field recorder (which consists of two microphones)
It really depends on what music you're writing! But I'd say the most barebones set-up you'd want would be Speakers (preferably 5") Audio interface Laptop/computer DAW (the studio software) SSD to save your files. (Dont get an HDD) Microphone with (get a vocal shield if you dont have a treated room, or record in a closet to get "dead" takes XLR cables Headphones for mixing and recording vocals Keyboard (full scale electric or midi) And the instruments of your choice from there! (If you're recording drums, you'll need a lot more mics and cables)
Logic Pro is a very budget friendly DAW choice, and it's basically GarageBand's older brother. It also has a LOT of great plugins and a huge library of instruments built in!
This was somewhat illogical, for me at least. You started by describing the stereo convert command and then afterwards mentioned that you had to pan them. or am I missing something? Were you just tweaking? Do you have to pre-pan the tracks? Or does Logic, by default, send track 1 to left and track 2 to right? Totally confused.
I've just tried this.. I hard panned two OH channels but unfortunately they got joined like two centered mono channels so I got a stereo signal that sounded mono.
I tried this on my piano track it .didnot work boo hoo...Could it be because I had already recorded the keyboard through Mono and then copied and pasted (thinking I'd be clever) no amount of panning will help..It is such a great solo...boo hooooo
Copy paste will always sound mono, because its two instances of the same take. It's the little inconsistencies in the two separate takes that gives you that stereo sound when they're panned. (This is what makes guitars in rock tracks sound BIG. They're might only be one guitar player per part, but they track the part 2 times at the minimum.)
Jesus--everybody--- don't follow this guy, he doesn't even notice @:55 since he has both tracks selected, when he pans one track to one side, the previous one he panned returned to the center. Some "Tutorial"
Did you not notice you have both tracks selected, so when you change the pan knob on one it also effects the other one so you're pretty much undoing the panning you did on the previous track. And the fact that you're raising the volume on one track has no effect on the merged result, because merging is a pre-fader effect. You'd have to bounce in place, control b and make sure it's set to stereo. Unless it's going to hard panned L and R, you should just keep it mono until your final print. IF you do what you just did, then you have two signals being welded and if you have phase issues, they cannot be solved by flipping the phase since both signals are slightly coming out of both L and R
Thank you for this. I have an old synth that gets recorded L and R vs stereo but I will keep everything separate because I can see where phase issues may crop up during the mixing process.
Thank you! This helped.
At 0:53 when you pan the Right track, the pan knob on the Left track follows it; going back to the middle. I think this is an issue when you created the track using the duplicate track function. The controls are not independent. In any case could you explain the intent of panning the tracks before joining. Don't they go fully left and right regardless of the pan setting?
Haha I reacted at the same thing!
I don't know if that's because he select both track? so the pan followed.
@@chennyye28 ye
Thanks man! I wish every Logic tutorial video was
Thanks Cooper. I agree, sometimes it's only a quick thing that needs to be told when you need to find a solution to a problem fast on RUclips!
Cheers man! short and helpful! (pay attention when panning while you have two tracks selected ;))
Keep up the good work!
Thank you Jimmy, I'm glad you found this video useful.
Ah yeah, I made a little error on the panning. Well spotted!
This is just double mono, it has to be "some other information on the other side" to even bother to make stereo image.
Correct. I'd hope that the common viewer of this video would understand that unfortunately, some things just aren't as easy as copy pasting.
Otherwise, tracking guitars would get done in HALF or even a quarter of the time!
Hell yeah man, thanks for giving the summary straight up!!
Gave me spare time to leave a thankful comment
Great, thanks for the video. Just to let you know, you panned both channels at the same time as you had them both highlighted, so it didn't get the effect you were looking for. Other than that, great video, thanks very much!
THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED , QUICK AND TO THE POINT IN THE FIRST part of the video. In watching the rest just purely to give you the view. THANK YOU. SUB EARNED!!!!
Tanks a million
Mine joined, but didn't turn to stereo, it was still a single line
Brilliant! Thank You!!!
I did exactly that 3 times and each the two separate tracks mixed down to a mono track.
After joining the audio you have to change the channel to stereo.. Otherwise you effectively have a new stereo file in a mono channel.
@@joshhudson691 i was wondering how you fix that! Thanks!
I've been searching for this for a long time. Thank you mate!
Very helpful! Thank you!
this operation lose the original handles right? or is there a way to keep the handles?
thank you sooooooooo much!
This works in GarageBand as well. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks man!
You never panned the top track left
You had both tracks selected.
So when you panned track 2 to the right track 1 went back to center.
Lol I do it to from time to time too
I got a chuckle out of that too. In theory, it would have done what he said, he just didn't notice they were both selected, haha
thank you
How do you do this on the iPad?
Do you find a mono channel is better for direct input from a keyboard ?
Hi Russell. It depends on the keyboard sound. For a bass sound, I will normally use mono, but for a pad sound that pans I would use stereo.
I hope this helps,
Tomas.
Can I use this method to bring all my tracks onto a single stereo track
What gear do I need to record in stereo? Thanks
microphones record in mono because they only have one membrane. you could either get two microphones or a field recorder (which consists of two microphones)
At least two microphones
It really depends on what music you're writing!
But I'd say the most barebones set-up you'd want would be
Speakers (preferably 5")
Audio interface
Laptop/computer
DAW (the studio software)
SSD to save your files. (Dont get an HDD)
Microphone with (get a vocal shield if you dont have a treated room, or record in a closet to get "dead" takes
XLR cables
Headphones for mixing and recording vocals
Keyboard (full scale electric or midi)
And the instruments of your choice from there!
(If you're recording drums, you'll need a lot more mics and cables)
Logic Pro is a very budget friendly DAW choice, and it's basically GarageBand's older brother.
It also has a LOT of great plugins and a huge library of instruments built in!
Don't get an option when I hit command j Help!
You can also select both files and right click.
If you prefer, you can also add command j as a hotkey, though, it should be there already.
I appreciated your video, followed the same steps, but didn't work for me. After command J. it finished the process and then still mono :(
After joining the audio you have to change the channel to stereo.. Otherwise you effectively have a new stereo file in a mono channel.
This was somewhat illogical, for me at least. You started by describing the stereo convert command and then afterwards mentioned that you had to pan them. or am I missing something? Were you just tweaking? Do you have to pre-pan the tracks? Or does Logic, by default, send track 1 to left and track 2 to right? Totally confused.
I've just tried this.. I hard panned two OH channels but unfortunately they got joined like two centered mono channels so I got a stereo signal that sounded mono.
I tried this on my piano track it .didnot work boo hoo...Could it be because I had already recorded the keyboard through Mono and then copied and pasted (thinking I'd be clever) no amount of panning will help..It is such a great solo...boo hooooo
Copy paste will always sound mono, because its two instances of the same take.
It's the little inconsistencies in the two separate takes that gives you that stereo sound when they're panned.
(This is what makes guitars in rock tracks sound BIG. They're might only be one guitar player per part, but they track the part 2 times at the minimum.)
@@realshinydragonite1598 I have since learned this! Phew.
This is not the best way to do it!
Jesus--everybody--- don't follow this guy, he doesn't even notice @:55 since he has both tracks selected, when he pans one track to one side, the previous one he panned returned to the center. Some "Tutorial"
Thank you! That was super helpful!!
Cheers that was excellent, thanks.