I cant get stereo with my powered monitors

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hi guys,

I cant get my new powered monitors to play stereo.

When I plug them into either left or right (input 5 or 6) on my delta 1010, the sound comes only out of the left speaker.

SO I bought a splitter cord, and plugged 2 ends into my soundcard, and then plugged the speakers into the splitter cord. Now I am getting two signals to the left channel. Amazingly frustrating.


What can I do. I already made sure that the signals were panned hardleft/hard right, but it makes no difference.

Is there something I am overlooking? thanks.

ps. By the way, my powered monitors are labtec cs???? from wal-mart :D
 
If and when you find out let me know, I am having the same problem with my soundcard and havent figured it
out yet. Sorry I cant help ya but I do like yur screen name.
 
well, that makes 2 of us, so it becomes a more desperate issue.

thanks for the comment on my screen name.
 
I can get either the left or right channel all depending
on how I plug into the splitter. One way I will have 1 channel, if I reverse the plugs then I have the other channel but never both at once. I have to start with all
the cords and plugs. I do have the other channel but you can barely hear it.
 
I dont know your rig but shouldnt you be plugging one speaker into output 5 and the other into 6? Aren't the Delta 1010s outputs balanced MONO outs? I'm guessing blind here but the connector you might need is a 1/8 inch stereo phone female to two 1/4 mono phone males.
 
I finally trudged down to the cold cold basement garage
and went through my box of cables and fished out new ones and installed them and voila, stereo.
 
thanks vox ,

I don't know if the radioshack cable was 1/8 inch stereo, but I know the 1/4 inchers were mono.

I might have to look somewhere else for that cable.

Hi dragonworks, what cable did you end up using to acheive the stereo. THanks.
 
I just have your standard soundcard, I use an adat and
use a pcr card to download into the computer. I just
used generic rca cables I bought from parts express, I have a ton of them. If you want cables or other various parts they are pretty cheap, I have bought from them
a few times, never any problems, quick delivery, good
return policy, I highly recommend them.
 
You're monitors have an 1/8" stereo miniplug that you use to plug into your source. You can tell this since it is a headphone (like discman headphones) size plug, and has 2 black lines on it, not one. You need to get a cable that changes a 1/8" stereo cable to 2 1/4" mono plugs. You might need to get a stereo 1/8" to 1/4" adapter too (i dont' know if they make the stereo 1/8 to 2 mono 1/4's) The adapter will have a female 1/8" stereo plug on one end, and then 2 cables exiting it, one red, one white. Each one will have a male mono 1/4" plug. I don't know what you meant when you said into either "input 5 or 6", wouldn't it be output? You're problem is that you are plugging a stereo cable into a mono jack. You need to split the stereo cable into 2 mono jacks. PS - I wouldn't even bother with the wal-mart speakers if I were you, go buy something respectable, it will help your mixes immensely (evcen some stereo speakers and a cheap receiver you can get at best buy are better then what you have)

Jake
 
hi Jrlemonz,

thanks a lot for the info. Also, sorry about the break-in at your place. I read about that on another thread. That is really awful.

youre exactly right. I meant to say output 5 and 6

the cable I tried before was two mono 1/4 into one 1/8 inch connector.

I think that the 1/8 inch connector must have been mono, I will look around for the right connector if I don't take the freaking things back.

I do my mixes on -sigh- ns10ms. I just wanted to see how they would translate to computer speakers, beacause I have since given away the crappy tweeters that came with the system.

Why is it that when I plug the speakers into either out 5 or 6, it plays back on the left speaker. Is this because all mono signals automatically play back on the left speaker?

peace
 
Yeah, the break in was a while ago (year or so). It is just so weird, you never expect it to happen to you. Yeah, the mono signal will always go to the left channel, because the left is the contact that touches on a stereo plug. If you see a stereo piece of equipment it will always have "Left (Mono)" and "Right". That means if oyu want to use it mono, you use the left channel. Hope all this helps. I don't understand the hate for those monitors (ns10ms). Everyone says how bad they are, but in that magazine "Mix" so many of the pics of professional studios have them sitting on the console. How bad could they be? I mix out of these Pro Audio 2012's. I've never seen them in a store, and they look like PA stuff. They have 12" woofers and exponential horns, but they are one of the most accurate speakers I've ever heard. Plus, I am constantly listening to music through them, which makes it that much easier to make your mixes sound good.

Jake
 
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