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  1. Steenamaroo

    Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire driver install on macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

    Good stuff! Glad you got sorted. (y)
  2. Steenamaroo

    Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire driver install on macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

    Unless it's a coincidence and you have two issues, simply disabling SIP should be enough. You can't just disable it from MacOS, though. It has to be done from recovery.
  3. Steenamaroo

    Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire driver install on macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

    Alright, the kext isn't loaded - That's the problem. On both computers open Terminal.app and input csrutil status If the macbook returns 'disabled' and the iMac returns 'enabled', then you'll need to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) on the iMac. To do that you'd boot into recovery...
  4. Steenamaroo

    Alesis Multimix 16 Firewire driver install on macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

    I'm not sure but the first thing I'd do is confirm that the kext has definitely loaded without issue. You should be able to sudo kextunload pathGoesHere and sudo kextload pathGoesHere to confirm. You can also check under System Profiler > Software > Extensions. It's got a loaded yes/no column...
  5. Steenamaroo

    Drawmer DL221

    Update: I have a Drawmer 1960 schematic here. No guarantee it's the same, or even similar, but grounding the send on it would result in zero output in 'normal' mode. Fairly certain using a TRS cable and leaving the ring disconnected will solve your problem.
  6. Steenamaroo

    Drawmer DL221

    Hi, Welcome to HR! Do both channels work for normal operation? The side chain socket is send + return so that you can interrupt or hijack the normal control signal which, in normal operation, is the same as the audio input for that channel. With no plug connected tip and ring (send and return)...
  7. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    Let's not... 😂 Edit : They should have called them 'linear polarity' eq just to be dicks.
  8. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    Yeah, that all sounds pretty reasonable! It's not something I ever really use, for that reason - mostly I'm working with single instruments or sources in close proximity. I'd definitely consider it for an ensemble or a performance in a very nice live environment, like a church or concert hall...
  9. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    This ^^ Apparently it's not important, since no one does it, not even big name equipment manufacturers or software developers. Labelling the 180 degree polarity flip button "phase" is about as correct as naming the volume slider "pan" and just saying, 'egh, it's fine. Everyone knows what we...
  10. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    As I say, there are no phase issues. There can't be phase issues as all the sound is arriving at both microphones at the same time. It sounds like maybe you just aren't a fan of mid/side, and that's fair enough. It's probably best suited at a reasonable distance, maybe capturing a small group...
  11. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    +1 to that ^. It sounds like you've just got the side channels turned up too high. It begins to sound unnatural at a point. The effect is, of course, more pronounced the close you are to the microphones, as is the case with any stereo recording technique. You can use it in close proximity, if...
  12. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    If you're having phase issues with mid/side you're doing it very wrong. The microphones should be about as close together as is possible.
  13. Steenamaroo

    WAV vocal recording?

    Hi and welcome to the forums. Pretty much any home recording software will do this. The recorded files will be wav, or some other lossless format. Conversion to mp3 would be at the export stage so just ensure you select .wav as your format when exporting. (y)
  14. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    I think, although welcome correction, pan law governs how loud audio is the farther away from centre it is panned. Ordinarily if you panned slowly something from centre to one side it would seem to get quieter. I believe you can set custom pan law to compensate for that. Regardless, as you say...
  15. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    It seems I was right, but not quite right. The problem wasn't your choice of setting for the master track output - It was the fact that width was set to zero. Changing the setting exposed the width control, allowing you to turn it up and solve the issue, but you can switch back now (to Stereo...
  16. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    Ok, I flicked back to default theme. Right click on the pan knob at the top of your master track. Change pan mode to Dual Pan. Ensure the sliders are dragged hard left and hard right (they should be already) Alternatively you can set pan mode to Stereo Pan then increased the (newly revealed)...
  17. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    You've got everything going through a master track/bus, with centre panning. I have a ProTools skin on Reaper so I don't know if the layout will be the same for you, but your master should be panned hard left for left and hard right for right.
  18. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    Glad you found a workaround. Thanks for the update. It's a shame you couldn't nail down the problem for closure - Seems pretty clear there's unwanted summing going on somewhere , as you say. Ah well, at least you can get back to work. (y)
  19. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    Reluctant to wake Dave up but I think FM stereo is transmitted as mid/side. It's such a great technique for a few reasons. Of course it's very easy to adjust the perceived width but you don't have the concern of distances between microphones or between each microphone and any given source, so...
  20. Steenamaroo

    Mid-side decoding issue - Total silence from the two side tracks

    I think I get where you were coming from - You don't have discrete left and right channels, but all of the same information is still there. It's just stored differently, as sum and difference - I.E. information that's common to left and right on one track, and information that is not stored on...
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