Talk:Mixing

Image is confusing, since it suggests that we're mixing the L and R channel. Better would be an image of an entire project? It certainly needs either changing or removing. *If* we keep this as a tutorial-lite (with present content that is questionable as there is little that is not - or couldn't be - said in the appropriate reference page), maybe two images (1) several tracks including maybe a mono track and a tone so you can see it when mixed (2) an image after Mix and Render which is also what you hear if you play or export In summary, this page should be either expanded so it's a more useful overview of mixing in Audacity with examples and illustrated step by step, or non-duplicated content merged into reference pages. - Gale

I vote we lose this page from the manual, and give it a Podcasting: prefix so that it becomes part of the podcasting book (only). Just about everything here is already covered in the reference sections. We can have an (optional) extended how-to tutorial on how to mix voice, chorus, music, if we really want to, emphasizing the stereo aspects of mixing.- James OK we are saying the same thing, expand it or get rid of it. And it can live in the podcasting tutorial to preserve it somewhere if for no other purpose. Let me do all this if it's OK with you - I like to see if there is an odd useful tip on pages like this that may be useful as a div note or whatever in a reference page.- Gale Bill 29Nov09: For now I've given this page a quick update since it is still linked to from the main page. Better image showing two tracks, and updated info on solo buttons. Gale 29 Jan 09: At present, looking at how Bill's expanded it, I'm inclined to retain it and move it to Foundations. Yes maybe make it a full-blown tutorial later, but the information presented here is otherwise spread across a number of Manual pages, questions about how to mix are common, and this page could pull the facts together