analog to digital:again

[Alaking]

Ok. I'm trying to record stuff from my 4 track to my computer. After it is recorded on my computer, and played on winamp, it shows that it is in stereo, but if i move the speaker balance to the far right, absolutely nothing can be heard. How can i fix this!? (does this have anything to do with the fact that the "line in" is only 1 (mono?) input?)

The reason I ask is because im trying to burn it to cd, and ive tried, but it comes out in mono.
Please help me..........

 

[bvaleria]

Forgive me but aren't the line-ins on soundcards at the very least 2-channel on a 1/4" or 1/8" TRS jack??? Sounds like you're not using a stereo cable to connect your 4-track to your soundcard.......

Bruce Valeriani
Blue Bear Sound

 

[Alaking]

thanks for the response, but im pretty sure im using the right kind of cable...a "y cable (2 (the right and left) 1/4" jacks from a tape deck into a single 1/4" jack)" ...am I?

any body know of good sites that describe in detail how to burn tape to cd?
thanks once again

 

[Slackmaster2K]

The line in on your soundcard will be 1/8" stereo.

You have to be certain of a few things:

a) Make sure you're sending a stereo signal. Check the panning, etc on your mixer. Make sure you're taking a stereo line out. Most 4-tracks I've seen had RCA stereo outs.

b) Make sure you're using a stereo cable. Yes a Y-cable as you describe should be two 1/4" mono to one 1/4" stereo, but you never know...maybe it's a splitter?

c) If you're using an adapter to go from 1/4" to 1/8" make certain it's stereo.

d) Make sure all of your cables and adapters actually work. Do you have a continuity checker or multimeter?

e) Make sure you're plugging into the Line-In on your soundcard and not the mic in. The mic in is mono.

f) Make sure your panning isn't screwed up in the Windows Recording Volume mixer.

g) Be certain that your soundcard is recording in stereo (it sounds like it is).

You obviously are recording in stereo....you're just not getting a signal!

Slackmaster 2000

 

[CyanJaguar]

This was a problem for me,

I did not realize that the outputs on my soundcard were mono. I thought at first that it was like my headphone out, you know, one cable but left and right.

But my soundcar outputs the left channel out of one out and the right out of another output, so if you pan hard left, maybe you have not connected the left output to your amp or reciever.

If that is already done, and you still are not getting and sgnnal to the right, make sure that your amp is recieving the right cable.

eg. if you are using 1/4" to 2 rca to connect your sound card outs to your reciever, then make sure that the left rca is connceted to the reciever and not the other one(Iwhich is the right)

I hope I have not confused you too bad. I seem to have confused myself.