"Don Pearce" wrote


You can use the dual mono signal quite handily. Put it into your audio
software and use the facility (which most have) of centre channel or
vocal extraction. That way you will lose the spitches (which are 99%
left or right, but never centre), and keep the good stuff.


That is what I suspect happens automatically when the capture is set to
'mono' and the file is saved as such - I can't see any facilities in the
software to enable you to choose it as a process..??



Also if you need to do any real repairs to remove a pop, you can
select the option to copy and paste from one channel to the other.


Serious pops are easily removed in SoundForge; it's the continuous crackle
that can be a nuisance (if it bothers you), but I am hoping for a
breakthrough *offlist* on that a little later on.

Might be worth a mention that the 'mono' clips I posted are off the Brubeck
'Jazz Goes To College' album which dates from 1954 - my copy is an original
Columbia CL566 in stunning condition. Neither of those clips have had any
cleaning whatsoever!



Then save it as pure mono, and it will halve the file size.


Yes - another bonus of mono recordings.