Not sure what you are asking. Do mean saving the file with just the vocal performance as a WAV file to perhaps work on some more (maybe in melodyne or an audio editor) or do you mean the final song mix with your vocal in it; or is the final just the vocal by itself?

In my DAW, I always leave the vocal mono, because it is a single voice, and then pan it accordingly across the stereo field (which is often, but not always dead center) and render it all to a stereo WAV file.

If I am going to bring it into a program like Melodyne or some other audio editor, I render it to WAV as mono, work on it, then bring it back into my mix, which as I said ultimately gets rendered to the final stereo wav.

But please provide us some additional information as to what you are trying to accomplish, as the word render can have several connotations.

John

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