[linux-audio-user] How-to for Recording on Ardour : Ans Query

[Jack O'Quin]

ish at sarai.net writes:

> thanks joq for going through the how to....
> And as you had said that Audio 3 will be a mono track is not
> true..>because>> Audio 3(out 1/out 2) is a stereo track..... i m recording
> guitar on Audio1 (track1) and Audio 2, so they both are mono... and i m
> then putting the output of the master track (after these two tracks are
> recorded) into jamin>>> ie master is stereo which will go into jamin
> (left/right) stereo... then im taking the balanced/mastered out(stereo) of
> jamin and connectin it to 'Audio 3' , so , hence Audio 3 becomes
> stereo.... and so we are exporting a stereo audio file...

But, your example tells ardour to write *both* stereo channels of
Audio 3 to *both* stereo channels of the WAV file.  Instead, you
should write Audio 3:out 1 to the Left channel and Audio 3:out 2 to
the Right.  Understand?

> i have understood your point completely ..  are you saying that if we have
> 2 mono channels we put one on the left and the other on the right while we
> export ..?

No.  I did not say that at all.
-- 
  joq