"Mono" vocals stuck in one stereo channel
Hi. I have a stereo mic, but someone told me to record vocals in mono. So on my vocal track, I pick "input, mono" and the device. Then I record. Now it appears that I have a stereo track -- okay, I know all Reaper tracks are stereo -- with all the information on the left side. I can't use the cool non-default Pan Modes to move the sound over to the right. Moreover, if I "Render track to mono stem track" I still get a thing that fades out as I pan to the right. If I "Render track to stereo stem track" I get a thing that looks, visually, like a stereo track with two identical copies, one on top of the other -- but I can *still* only hear it on the left.
My questions are, one, how should I set up recording with a stereo mic in the future, and, two, how can I get sound on both sides?
Thanks,
Eternal Newbie
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