Firewire Interface Help

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Okay, so I just bought a Edirol FA-101 audio interface.
Its all hooked up and ready to go but when I record, it only records the right side, not right and left.

Anyone know the deal?
 
I don't know this item specifically, but I can take a stab at it...

Have you set up your software to record both? If you only have one track "record enabled" you're only get one input. You'd need two tracks, each record enabled, and each "pointing" at one of the Edirol outs.

Beyond that, it could be device specific, and like I said--I don't know that one.
 
Here's the deal

Right now I'm using Mixcraft, which is a pretty simple one and I've got 3 options:

Edirol-FA 101 in 1
Edirol-FA 101 in 2
Edirol-FA 101 in 3

...and the only time I can get signal is if 1 is selected.

I've got vocals running in Input 1 and Guitars in Input 2.

The vocals end up being left and the guitar ends up being right
 
jameswvox said:
Here's the deal

Right now I'm using Mixcraft, which is a pretty simple one and I've got 3 options:

Edirol-FA 101 in 1
Edirol-FA 101 in 2
Edirol-FA 101 in 3

...and the only time I can get signal is if 1 is selected.

I've got vocals running in Input 1 and Guitars in Input 2.

The vocals end up being left and the guitar ends up being right
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So you're saying you are getting 2 lines in? The guitar and the vocals? If that's the case your software should allow you to send those to 2 separate mono instead of 2 sides of a single stereo track. Worst case scenario, you should be able to split that stereo track into 2 mono tracks--one for vox, one for guitar. Then you can pan, eq, tweak--whatever--each track separately.

(After all that, remember: I don't know that Edirol, or Mixcraft for that matter.)
 
Thanks, but I am saying screw that noise and buying the EMU 1616M.
I know it will not fail me and i'm sure its even easier to use and set up.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what's happening is you're recording in stereo, so it's sending channel 1 to the left and channel 2 to the right. Change to recording in mono, then assign channel one to the first mono track, and channel 2 to the second. Should work.
Oops, I see strat already covered this.
 
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guitar zero said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what's happening is you're recording in stereo, so it's sending channel 1 to the left and channel 2 to the right. Change to recording in mono, then assign channel one to the first mono track, and channel 2 to the second. Should work.
Oops, I see strat already covered this.
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I think that's what I tried to say in post #4, but man, did you say it better. (perhaps I was too verbose again, huh?)
 
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