ranjersmith
New member
Hi
I have a Focusrite 18i6 and some new JBL LSR 305's.
I downloaded the Genelec pink noise from their web page.
'It sounds like' there is a different tonal response form pan to pan / speaker to speaker. One sounds slightly lower and fuller. One sounds higher and lighter. However you want to understand that.
This is replicated by swapping the xlr leads to the 18i6 and the fuller speaker swaps sides, which says to me this is not the speakers.
I then tired this with the headphones and notice that the same anomaly occurs when I pan the pink noise.
I work in Reason 7 and have tried dropping an EQ into the channels on the main mixer to see if I can EQ it out and it doesn't really work, more I get an overall sense of something missing in the lighter and less full speaker. I recognise this as being a subjective point of view.
I replicated this outside of Reason, by playing the clip on the windows media player and turning the speakers up and down either side. This was still playing through the 18i6.
My first question is whether when using the monitor routing (L&R) out of an audio interface should both channels sound the same or is there some room for error between both channels?
I suppose the second is as to whether other people have noticed this with other audio interfaces?
Is it something to do with the human ear, do we need a slightly different sound to be able to position things in the stereo field???
If not then what might be the problem with my set up??
Cheers Ranj
I have a Focusrite 18i6 and some new JBL LSR 305's.
I downloaded the Genelec pink noise from their web page.
'It sounds like' there is a different tonal response form pan to pan / speaker to speaker. One sounds slightly lower and fuller. One sounds higher and lighter. However you want to understand that.
This is replicated by swapping the xlr leads to the 18i6 and the fuller speaker swaps sides, which says to me this is not the speakers.
I then tired this with the headphones and notice that the same anomaly occurs when I pan the pink noise.
I work in Reason 7 and have tried dropping an EQ into the channels on the main mixer to see if I can EQ it out and it doesn't really work, more I get an overall sense of something missing in the lighter and less full speaker. I recognise this as being a subjective point of view.
I replicated this outside of Reason, by playing the clip on the windows media player and turning the speakers up and down either side. This was still playing through the 18i6.
My first question is whether when using the monitor routing (L&R) out of an audio interface should both channels sound the same or is there some room for error between both channels?
I suppose the second is as to whether other people have noticed this with other audio interfaces?
Is it something to do with the human ear, do we need a slightly different sound to be able to position things in the stereo field???
If not then what might be the problem with my set up??
Cheers Ranj
