spantini
COO of me, inc.
I was hooking up my new mic to my new US-2x2 interface into Reaper - first timer when it comes to mic'ing via interface to DAW. I wanted to make sure I could get levels on a track and master. Well..
I opened Reaper's manual for inputing one mic to record and followed exactly. Didn't work right.
(first problem.. I was getting two audio signals in the left ear headphone - one latent - which was corrected by turning Record Monitoring OFF .. "put ze cahndleshtik bak!")
At first, my problem was not getting track or master input signals at the meters. Also at the same time, using headphones to monitor, I was only getting audio in the left ear. The audio sounded great, though only left ear. No adjustments on the interface changed this, so I went into Reaper Preferences and began changing a couple things - at this point, the input signals appeared on both master and track fader meters.. but still only left ear in my headphones.
I went back to Preferences Audio and selected different sound drivers and.. I don't remember what I did exactly, but I adjusted or set something that overloaded the interface and I lost input signal at all the meters, and the left-only audio turned to total distortion.
Thought I fried my interface, but I fixed that with an un-install / install.
Now, I hook everything up the same way AGAIN, and everything works perfectly. I've got signals at all fader meters and BOTH left/right in headphones. Unbelieveable..
I'm thinking the driver was the problem from the start and the new install cleared it all out.
Here's the Preferences > Audio > Device settings I had to use for a Tascam US-2x2 interface
I opened Reaper's manual for inputing one mic to record and followed exactly. Didn't work right.
(first problem.. I was getting two audio signals in the left ear headphone - one latent - which was corrected by turning Record Monitoring OFF .. "put ze cahndleshtik bak!")
At first, my problem was not getting track or master input signals at the meters. Also at the same time, using headphones to monitor, I was only getting audio in the left ear. The audio sounded great, though only left ear. No adjustments on the interface changed this, so I went into Reaper Preferences and began changing a couple things - at this point, the input signals appeared on both master and track fader meters.. but still only left ear in my headphones.
I went back to Preferences Audio and selected different sound drivers and.. I don't remember what I did exactly, but I adjusted or set something that overloaded the interface and I lost input signal at all the meters, and the left-only audio turned to total distortion.
Thought I fried my interface, but I fixed that with an un-install / install.
Now, I hook everything up the same way AGAIN, and everything works perfectly. I've got signals at all fader meters and BOTH left/right in headphones. Unbelieveable..
I'm thinking the driver was the problem from the start and the new install cleared it all out.
Here's the Preferences > Audio > Device settings I had to use for a Tascam US-2x2 interface
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