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Is anyone here good with audio .wavs and Unreal engine 2.5?
foulprairiedog:
no you fool it's "Stereo Track to Mono" not "split stereo to mono"
if you split it instead of merging it then you'll lose part of the sound if it's got some panning stuff going on. this is important for converting music
Mr Queeba:
--- Quote from: foulprairiedog on January 24, 2018, 07:27:43 PM ---no you fool it's "Stereo Track to Mono" not "split stereo to mono"
if you split it instead of merging it then you'll lose part of the sound if it's got some panning stuff going on. this is important for converting music
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holy crap ive been using split stereo to mono whenever i was making music mono
i did not know this at all
Masterlegodude:
--- Quote from: foulprairiedog on January 24, 2018, 07:27:43 PM ---no you fool it's "Stereo Track to Mono" not "split stereo to mono"
if you split it instead of merging it then you'll lose part of the sound if it's got some panning stuff going on. this is important for converting music
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I've done both methods, and they end up exactly the same, no matter what kind of stereo audio i use it with, even if there's more audio in one side than there is in the other, the quality, sounds, and waveforms end up exactly the same
Doing 'Stereo Track to Mono' is just a quicker way of doing that than splitting the stereo track, merging it, and normalizing the audio level
SeventhSandwich:
In theory, if certain tracks in the audio are panned strictly to one side, you'd lose out on that by not keeping them merged, no?
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: Masterlegodude on January 24, 2018, 07:50:05 PM ---I've done both methods, and they end up exactly the same, no matter what kind of stereo audio i use it with, even if there's more audio in one side than there is in the other, the quality, sounds, and waveforms end up exactly the same
Doing 'Stereo Track to Mono' is just a quicker way of doing that than splitting the stereo track, merging it, and normalizing the audio level
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not exactly no
"stereo to mono" does (track A + track B) / 2.
your method of splitting then mixing does (track A + track B), without the / 2, which means things can start to clip, which means you then have to go through even more extra steps to amplify to exactly the right amount, etc etc etc