lost stereo from minidisk to harddrive

[danish]

posted this to minidisk forum too. hope that's ok...

ok this might be vague because im posting at work and the equipment is at home and some of it isnt mine but here goes..
my band recorded yesterday to minidisk. sorry i dont know what brand or anything the recorder is i can post that later if need be. anyway, it sounds grrreat. we panned the guitars left and right on the mixing board and when the minidisk player is hooked directly to the stereo (via RCA out to RCA in) the pans are fine.
the problem is now i need to go from minidisk to harddrive to track the vocals with voyetra digital orchestrator pro. soundcard is probably some generic brand: has mic in, line in, spkr out. tried many different setups between minidisk RCA out and soundcard inputs, even routed through mixer BUT the best we could get mixes the pans into each other. ie we lose stereo. (the worst we got was totally losing one of the channels)

sooo...

is there a way to preserve the pans once the songs hit the harddrive?

is a soundcard's line in usually stereo? i realize if not then that's the problem.

sorry again for lack of specs but any help would be appreciated.

thanks.
.danish

 

[AlChuck]

Two things -- first, of course, the plug you use into the soundcard must be a stereo plug with a stereo signal coming out of it. Second, the soundcard driver usually offers a choice of recording a mono WAV file from either the left side or the right side, or a stereo WAV file from both. You've got to choose the latter or else you pnly will get one side.

 

[camn]

Me and my Buddy both had an identical problem... and In my case I know it wasnt cabling or anything. Just an act of god. My meters all jumped in stereo and everything seemed stereo... but it recorded left-side-only. And only when taping off a minidisc. WEIRD. it kept me up nights. no solution.

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