The Book of Audacity

Final Mixdown

Usually your goal is to mixdown however many tracks you have recorded to a stereo track. However, Audacity also supports multichannel surround sound, which is covered in Chapter 9. Before you export, select Edit > Preferences > Import/Export and select the “Use custom mix” radio button. At export, an Advanced Mixing Option window appears, which is a simple channel mapper. Map your tracks to whichever channels you want. Your tracks can go to the left channel, the right channel, or even multiple channels. Channel 1 is always the left channel when there are two tracks. (See Figure 1-33 for a simple two-track example.) When you are using this tool, you will be glad you named your tracks. Chapter 9 goes into more detail on multitrack ...