Tascam US428 output

[johnny stettin]

Hi,

I'm using a US-428 for recording going direct through USB to an iBook (OSX v3) running Cubase SX. The question I have is relating to the output that I get from the 428. I'm feeding the US 428 a stereo signal from a number of different sound sources and it appears that rather than sending a true stereo - that is exactly what my inout is - the 428 seems to be summing the inputs and sending them as 2 mono outs. This is the case when I monitor through Cubase or when I use the headphone out (or line out) with or without the "input monitor" function engaged. Naturally, I'd like to record in true stereo. Has anyone out there got any ideas on this? i would appreciate your feedback.

with thanks

J

[mattamatta]

So you have each channel of the stereo thing plugged into a different input?

Then are you running straight out of the line out?

I'm not entirely clear as to what you're doing, but I see what could be a problem in that situation. If you have each stereo channel coming through the input monitor and out the line out, they might be panned center, so you'd get both left and right down the center - hence two mono.

If that's the case, you need to turn on the input monitor button, select the track/channel you want with the whatever it's called (green track selection button over the faders), and then use the pan knob.

If you do this then you'll hear it right over the line and headphone out. But the channels going usb to the software should still work even so, but to hear the stereo image over the input monitor, you'll have to pan the tracks right and left.

Oh, and about the input monitor, I get the impression that you're thinking that when the light is on, it's monitoring, and when it's off it isn't. This actually isn't the case... when you press the button, what it does it let you use the first 4 faders / mute buttons / etc to control the input monitoring. So to turn it off, you press the input monitor button, and either turn down the first 4 faders, or mute the first 4 channels, and then turn the button back off to resume using those channels to control your software.

Basically it just puts you in mode to adjust your imput monitor settings.

Sorry if you already knew that, I dont mean to assume you dont know what you're doing or anything, but the wording of engaging the input monitor made me think that might be what you were doing.

Hope this helps!