SRR
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So I had a singer in today that was singing to backing tracks, some on CD and blah-some on cassette. So I patch my cassette deck in (yes I have one connected to one of my two patch bays), and I was only getting the right channel!!! Blast it, I thought it might be the connection to my patch bay from the player, nope. Ok so I tried different inputs on my 1010LT, nope. So I try everything else, and still just one channel, I thought Reaper was being mad at me!!! Turns out one of those "nice" 6 for $15-$20 patch cables was dead in the water, I switched to my even cheaper and slightly older patch cables and ta-da both channels work. The dead cable that I admit I probably never used before has a small puncture wound to one of the plastic ends. Very easy to miss, and no doubt was there when I bought it. Later after the session was done, I wiggled the cable every which way and nothing, wasn't passing anything. I am all for good cables, but stupid patch cables in my studio hardly get used so I never thought it would bite me in the butt, but it did......so Arggggggggggggggggh. Made me look silly, stupid, retarded, and dumb. I should have made my own, which I think I will do very shortly. And I will test out the cassette deck prior to people who I know might need it!!! Still have 100ft of Canare cable, just need some 1/4" Neutrik connectors.