Everything goes pretty well, until I get to the point of adding in the ad and outro.
For them, I copy the tracks from a template file into Audacity, position them until they’re at just the right point, then adjust the gain so that the levels are just right.
This is more challenging than it might seem, because both the ad and outro are composed of a mono and stereo track.
What’s more, I’m not always able to copy and paste both tracks simultaneously from the template file to my next episode.
Add to that the fact that, if there isn’t a free mono and stereo track in the episode file, Audacity won’t create one when I attempt to paste them in.
So I have to click and for both.
I think you can appreciate how the time starts to rapidly disappear after a while.
So, to cut the time down, I looked at Audacity’s Track Mixing functionality and noticed that it can mix stereo tracks to mono and mix multiple tracks together into one track as well.
I started playing with it, thinking that it should be a simple enough process to mix the mono and stereo tracks for both the ad and outro together.
However, it didn’t work out quite as expected.
For some reason, I think because I had reduced the gain on both stereo tracks, the resultant new track was quieter than it had been before.
But, after a bit of further experimentation, I figured out that if you first mix the stereo track to a mono track (), then mix the two mono tracks into a new mono track (), everything works as expected.
Now, I am able to copy or import them as and where required, knowing that the levels and timing are exactly as I want them to be.
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