A lot of questions for a beginner...

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Hey guys, I just decided to start recording my songs at home, and I have a couple questions.

1) First, let me tell you about my setup. I have an Apex 415 (condenser) microphone plugged into a Steinberg CI1 usb audio interface. The interface came with its own software, but I feel a lot more comfortable using Audacity. When I try to record anything on the mic, it only picks up from the Right side and not the Left. When I play it back, it only plays out the right speaker. I tried recording using Sequel LE 2 (the software that came with it) and the same thing happens. I guess my question is: how can I fix this?

2) Not sure if I'm doing this right, but when I attempt to plug in my guitar using a standard patch cable directly into the audio interface I get nothing. Again, I'm doing this all using Audacity. How can I record instruments and a microphone at the same time? Do I need to plug my amp into the usb interface?


Thanks again for looking, any knowledge is greatly appreciated.
 
orangepill said:
When I try to record anything on the mic, it only picks up from the Right side and not the Left. When I play it back, it only plays out the right speaker..
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Seems like you're trying to record a mono source (microphone) into a stereo channel. I'm not familiar with your software, but you have to call up a mono track to record a mono source. Either that, or you are recording into a mono track, but it's panned hard right. In this case, t's just a matter of panning the track you're recording into so that's it's in the middle and not panned hard right.
 
I'm recording into a stereo track and its panned directly in the middle. The source is also stereo
 
How is the source stereo??? Your Apex 415 is not a stereo mic. It is mono. You need a mono track to record into. If the stereo track is "panned in the middle", that really means that the left channel is panned left and the right channel is panned right. Your mic is just going into one of those, in the case, the right channel.
 
Oh, thanks for clearing that up....so what is it I should do?
 
orangepill said:
I'm recording into a stereo track and its panned directly in the middle. The source is also stereo
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Like Rami said, create a mono track, not stereo. Your mic is mono, not stereo.

Oh, and take the time to learn the software that came with your interface. It's much better than Audacity.

... good luck.
 
If you copy the mono vocal track recorded into the left channel into a new track and pan it right, then you add a 20ms delay to the right (pan each track hard left/hard right respectively) it will sound really cool :)

And Chili is right - Audacity is a great app for the price but Sequel is much better and you will get a lot more out of it.
 
orangepill said:
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2) Not sure if I'm doing this right, but when I attempt to plug in my guitar using a standard patch cable directly into the audio interface I get nothing. Again, I'm doing this all using Audacity. How can I record instruments and a microphone at the same time? Do I need to plug my amp into the usb interface?
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I see no one told you that you need a Hi-Z input for an electric guitar input. The signal from a pickup is very low, so it needs a special input/preamp.
 
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