Creating stereo file from two mono files with sox

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Published on 2011-10-20T14:53:48Z Indexed on 2011/12/01 10:04 UTC
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I'm using sox 14.2.0 on Centos 6.0.

I have two mono wav files, left.wav and right.wav. I need to combine them into one stereo.ogg file, with left.wav pan 80% to the left, and right.wav pan 80% to the right.

I was unable to come up with the sox options needed for this. How do I do this?

This is going to be executed repeatably for many files, so I'd prefer an efficient solution. From what I understand there should be a way to do it in one pass (one invocation of sox).

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