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Originally Posted by sleeto

Thanks for the reply. While I understand your point, with a dual mono file I can still have the option to pan left or right (or delete one side) as I wish.

But you have a pan control on a mono track to move the signal to the left or right side of your stereo spectrum. There is no reason to have a stereo track. You’re doing the exact same thing via a convoluted process.

Also, using the process I described above allows you to have two completely separate mono tracks in the left and right sides. (Not that I'm doing it with this particular project.)

Do you mean two different audio tracks on the left and right channel? As in say two passes of a guitar track? Again, there’s no need to go through the process of what you’re doing. You use two mono tracks and pan one hard left and one hard right. The result is the same thing you’re doing albeit without the lengthy work around.