my speakers alwayssssss sound off balance! lol

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is there a test that i can run to actually find out if my speakers are equal or not (the L/R volumes)...

i just cleaned my balance knob - and when putting it back on, it wont go on how it's supposed to...therefore i cant really see when the line hits the middle...lol

howerver, if i guess where it should be, based on where it stops on the left and stops on the right, it sure as hell doesnt sound balanced..lol. it seems like i gotta put it massssss to the right to get it to sound right.

nevertheless...i think that its maybe my right speaker channel? could that be? how could i find out/fix it without getting another reciever, etc. etc. etc. - or is that my only option? lol

really if could be anything, i'm clueless.
 
I think I have the same problem (Tannoy Active Reveals coming out of my Mackie Mixer, fed from my Delta 44). I swear that the right speaker is very slightly softer, I don't know if its the position of the monitors or something wrong with the monitor itself. I've played mono tracks back and played with the panning, but it's so slight I don't know if it's in my mind or not.

Also, I burned a bunch of songs last night and got into my car and listened and it seems that the right channel is louder than I mixed it. I usually pan the main ac. gtr slightly to the left, and then the solo/backup gtr more to the right. Any ideas on a "scientific" test. Don't tell me to go to Radio Shack and buy a db-meter. :) You can tell me to go somewhere else to buy it though!

Thank!
 
Yeah, I'm having troubles with this too. The L/R volume controls on my Alesis amp stink as well. It's impossible I think to tell if they are set to the same notch. So if I do get the balance set right, and want to turn it up I have to turn up and check the balance again. what the heck
 
maybe it IS the delta then?

of course, it could always be a psycological thing, but i think i've tried EVERYTHING...lol

i would love to have a real test though...
 
You can do some testing with a SPL meter and some pink noise. Just place the SPL meter in your sweet spot, and run pink noise to each channel to check to see if the levels are the same.

I'm going to guess that you're probably experiencing effects from nearby surfaces that are causing one speaker to seem louder than the other...If one speaker is closer to a side wall, or you have different surfaces/objects in front of the speakers, etc. If this is the case, it will be frequency dependant as well, some frequencies will seem louder than others.
 
with these stupid amps with dual mono, the best thing would be to set both to the maximum volumes and attenuate from a mixer or something.
 
1. Feed in a mono signal, say a 1 KHz test tone or even a simple song.

2. Disconnect your speakers. Both of 'em.

3. Connect one of the speakers to the 'hot' leads of the left and right channel. You will have a connection that is fed from the speaker output of the two channels, and no ground. This will be a 'Delta' speaker, i.e. it will let you know the difference between the two channels.

4. At the point in the balance control where the speaker is silent, you have perfect balance between your left and right.

5. Feeding in a piece of music will also let you know if the amp is balanced between its left and right channels across the spectrum and in reaction to music. A pretty rough and ready method of testing an amp.

Sang
 
what is the "hot" part of it?

i have a red and black wire insert on both the speaker and the reciever...i just match up colors, lol.
 
'Hot' Would be the red part.

Black is ground.

You need to connect the red wire of one speaker to one red terminal. The black wire of the same speaker to the red terminal of the other output. Terminals are the amp outputs.
 
It's amazing how often 'center' on the knobs and faders are not.
In my 'hole in the wall' setup, things sometimes get moved in and out, components evolve, whatever. I ended up marking my monitor positions once I found that spot, and set a visual center spot for my reference. (Helps spot if the speakers got turne a bit)That eliminates the room variable if other things don't seem to line up. Then, it's check for dead center with a mono source.
Lately I discovered an imbalance has crept in between center in the headphones vs the speakers due to the monitor mixer. Another bug to fix...
 
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