M-Audio mobilepre USB

[cookie18mudd]

I am new to this so please bare with me. My son has a computer running XP, Magix 12 software, Creative Soundblaster sound card, and a cheap microphone. All works fine, no problems. He wanted to upgrade to a real good microphone. He has a CAD GXL2400 condensor mic. Great!!! Picks up everything. Found out we needed a pre-amp for power. In comes the mobile pre usb. It works but there is a problem. When recording, according to the Magix 12, sound is found on the left side only. Also, your recording is not at the same spot that you recorded it. It will be a little early or late. Not sure if this is just how it is, in which case, better off with cheapo. Any suggestions or comments appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[dgatwood]

I am new to this so please bare with me. My son has a computer running XP, Magix 12 software, Creative Soundblaster sound card, and a cheap microphone. All works fine, no problems. He wanted to upgrade to a real good microphone. He has a CAD GXL2400 condensor mic. Great!!! Picks up everything. Found out we needed a pre-amp for power. In comes the mobile pre usb. It works but there is a problem. When recording, according to the Magix 12, sound is found on the left side only. Also, your recording is not at the same spot that you recorded it. It will be a little early or late. Not sure if this is just how it is, in which case, better off with cheapo. Any suggestions or comments appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Good audio software shouldn't have alignment problems. Try Reaper and see if the problem goes away.

As for the "left channel only" problem, you need to record a mono track if you're only recording a signal on one input. If you do that, the software should then give you a pan control to place that mono channel anywhere you want from left to right.

 

[DavidK]

Good audio software shouldn't have alignment problems.

Or some sort of latency.

 

[andyhix]

Just to reiterate, your left side only problem should be easily fixed by arming your track that you're recording to with a mono input, not a stereo. I have no idea about that program, but however you select your input, just make sure it's a mono input (will say "MobilePre Mono 1/2" or something).

The second problem is likely latency (this is basically the time it takes to process the audio. Higher latency means the computer can do more work, but it does it slower, potentially resulting in your lag problem - this is just the way I think about it, probably not technically quite right). You should be able to open the control panel for the mobilepre and select a lower latency setting. It will get it closer, hopefully close enough that you won't notice it.

The other thing to consider is whether you are using direct monitoring or not. Generally you would want to be, although, I don't think that would have anything to do with your problems. You should be able to change that setting in the mobilepre control panel, also.