Hey guys-
I'm having some issues with my 388 and I'm wondering if anyone here might have some insight. The unit records perfectly fine, even when I'm having these output problems. What's happening is that is just not outputting to one side or the other, intermittently.
Example: I assign track 1 to the 1-2 bus, record with its balance all the way to the left (odd) and track 2 to the same bus, and record with its balance all the way to the right (even). When I play it back (assigns off) without changing the balance, I will hear track 1 (L) but not track 2 (R). As I turn track 2's balance to the left, the audio will start to come in on the left. Through all of this, the track 2 meter is registering the recorded audio, as it should. The master Right meter, however, registers nothing. Pressing the mono button will then give me audio from the right side (and the meter will show it), but only if I turn the balance on the track in question towards the left; max level comes with center positioning.
The tricky thing about this is that it had happened years before, except not outputting on the left rather than the right. Being that I had just started college, I couldn't use it regularly and it would take me months to complete my work, so I would just work in mono and then wait for a day when it was cooperating to mix off the tape. Of course, it just went away on its own just as I came home with some time to fix it and so I thought it was just a fluke. Now (7 years later) it started again a few months ago; I put fader lube on all sliders and it went away. I thought that had solved the issue, but today's application of fader lube did nothing. In fact, in just playing with the unit, I have had the issue swap sides on me twice today, but mostly occurring on the right.
Sometimes you can ever so faintly hear a track that is turned all the way to the right, but it is grossly less intense than the left output level. I have tried both the stereo L-R output and monitor L-R output in the rear of the unit to see if it might have been that set of jacks, but both exhibit the same issue. Same for the headphones- still faint to nothing on the right side.
I also tested my right ear, and it is working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks,
-Ed
I'm having some issues with my 388 and I'm wondering if anyone here might have some insight. The unit records perfectly fine, even when I'm having these output problems. What's happening is that is just not outputting to one side or the other, intermittently.
Example: I assign track 1 to the 1-2 bus, record with its balance all the way to the left (odd) and track 2 to the same bus, and record with its balance all the way to the right (even). When I play it back (assigns off) without changing the balance, I will hear track 1 (L) but not track 2 (R). As I turn track 2's balance to the left, the audio will start to come in on the left. Through all of this, the track 2 meter is registering the recorded audio, as it should. The master Right meter, however, registers nothing. Pressing the mono button will then give me audio from the right side (and the meter will show it), but only if I turn the balance on the track in question towards the left; max level comes with center positioning.
The tricky thing about this is that it had happened years before, except not outputting on the left rather than the right. Being that I had just started college, I couldn't use it regularly and it would take me months to complete my work, so I would just work in mono and then wait for a day when it was cooperating to mix off the tape. Of course, it just went away on its own just as I came home with some time to fix it and so I thought it was just a fluke. Now (7 years later) it started again a few months ago; I put fader lube on all sliders and it went away. I thought that had solved the issue, but today's application of fader lube did nothing. In fact, in just playing with the unit, I have had the issue swap sides on me twice today, but mostly occurring on the right.
Sometimes you can ever so faintly hear a track that is turned all the way to the right, but it is grossly less intense than the left output level. I have tried both the stereo L-R output and monitor L-R output in the rear of the unit to see if it might have been that set of jacks, but both exhibit the same issue. Same for the headphones- still faint to nothing on the right side.
I also tested my right ear, and it is working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks,
-Ed