Christoph Pfeifer

Damn, that's helpful! I'm not often in forums but maybe I should change that. Thanks! I'm too new to this for the first suggestion - I would need to look up two dozen things first , so I think I'll go for the rerecording via amp as you suggested. Totally makes sense. First I just played it with my accoustic guitar into the h4n's stereo mics but was bothered by the plectrum sounds - so I switched to the jack cable. Which led to the mono fail. But it shouldn't be a problem with an amp. Thanks for your help! I'm curious - since you seem to know the device - how do you think the h4n is holding up for today? I haven't used it in over ten years, just recently dug it up again.

Sorry I was a little too vague. I connected the guitar with the zoom h4n via jack cable. Recorded it in wav format on the internal sd card. Then put that card into my laptop. Opened it with winamp: it was mono, only sound from the left side. Imported the file into cakewalk and it was automatically stereo. Worked on the project. Then exported it and all of a sudden guitar and bass part were mono again.

Hello everybody, I'm new with cakewalk and experimenting a bit with it at the moment. Trying to create the musical background for a video with it. I recorded guitar and bass with my ancient zoom H4n (still awesome quality) over jack cable. I put the two parts into the cakewalk project, added other things like drums, vocals, misc, but after exporting the thing, the guitar and bass parts were mono. Only on the left side. Now I guess that is cause i recorded it mono with my zoom h4n... So here are my two questions: 1. Can i fix it with the already recorded tracks? I mean, in cakewalk it DOES sound stereo. Shouldnt there be a way to also make it so for the exported file? 2. If i were to record it again - how do I record it stereo on my zoom h4n, if i wann keep using a jack cable? I understand that its not super likely that many here own that recording device and know an answer. So its really more about the first question.