Convert an already recorded stereo track to mono in Garageband

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I have a guitar track that I accidentally recorded in stereo. I can't find anywhere in garageband to change it to mono after the fact. Is this possible?

Panning the guitar track to the right silences the track, but if it's panned all the way to the left it's full.

Any ideas?

Best Answer

This was driving me mad, but I now use an very smooth way based on JHerran's answer. It has the virtue of only requiring Garageband and is quick.

N.B. I assume your track has a single region: if not you will have to shift-click to select all the regions in the track that you want to convert.

  1. Click on the track that you want to convert. The single region should automatically be highlighted.
  2. Command-D or >Track>New Track with duplicate settings to create a new track
  3. Command-V to paste the original regions to the new track
  4. Shift-Click on the original region(s) to highlight it again
  5. Command-J to join the regions, select "Mono" for the mix-down
  6. The mix-down will replace the original stereo track - you can now click on the temporary track and Delete it.
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