No mono play back?

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Hey guys,

I just replaced my audiophile 2496 with a 1010LT and I have a problem or maybe its not? I just didn't have this with the 2496.

I’m think it’s a simple set up issue but I am not sure. When I play back or when I overdub, I hear the playback in the same side it was recorded. Like if I record it on the right or left channel that is how I would hear it in the headset. I don’t remember my audiophile 2496 doing this. It was always a mono signal to both left and right of the headsets and I could pan it left or right from sonar.

This is my setup: Soundcraft M8 direct outs to 1010LT inputs, 1010LT ½ out to Soundcraft M8 return. I am using Sonar for the recording software.

Who has experienced this and can tell me what I am doing wrong? Is this how its suppose to be? or is it a setup issue with sonar?

I hope I am making sense explaining myself.

I guess I can use it as is but I would rather hear things in both left/right (mono) channels until I pan them.

Thanks folks.


Pier
 
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Pier Calacino said:
Hey guys,

I just replaced my audiophile 2496 with a 1010LT and I have a problem or maybe its not? I just didn't have this with the 2496.

I’m think it’s a simple set up issue but I am not sure. When I play back or when I overdub, I hear the playback in the same side it was recorded. Like if I record it on the right or left channel that is how I would hear it in the headset. I don’t remember my audiophile 2496 doing this. It was always a mono signal to both left and right of the headsets and I could pan it left or right from sonar.

This is my setup: Soundcraft M8 direct outs to 1010LT inputs, 1010LT ½ out to Soundcraft M8 return. I am using Sonar for the recording software.

Who has experienced this and can tell me what I am doing wrong? Is this how its suppose to be? or is it a setup issue with sonar?

I hope I am making sense explaining myself.

I guess I can use it as is but I would rather hear things in both left/right (mono) channels until I pan them.

Thanks folks.


Pier
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That's not how it is supposed to be? There could be several reasons.

Let's start with the simplest. What input selection are you choosing in Sonar? If you are selecting, for example, 1/2 Stereo you will record a stereo track with only one side recorded on. As such, it would playback as you have described and panning it left to right will only change it from playback to silence.
You should be choosing 1/2 Left or 1/2 Right as your input - dependant, of course, on whether you are physically connected to input 1 (left) or 2 (right) on your soundcard. (Same logic applies to 3/4, 5/6, etc.)
 
dachay2tnr

Thanks for your reply,

I am sure that is what I am doing is selecting either 1/2 left or right and not the stereo in.

Thats why it strange to me?


Pier
 
i'm confused with the post still. are you saying that you have changed the property in the track options that switches from stereo to mono? for example, you have armed your track and have selected your input source, then you have selected the track to be mono, not stereo?
 
Maybe I am not explaining my self well?

I record on say the left channel or the right channel of 1010LT 1/2 in. (I have armed sonar to record this)

When I play that back it plays on the left or right side, which ever side it was recorded on.

shouldn't it play back on the left side and right side of the head phones until I pan it from sonar?
what am I missing here?

I am doing some thing wrong I know, but what?

Pier
 
OK, if you are choosing 1/2 Left or 1/2 Right as your recording input you are OK so far. I assume then that the waveform you see in the track view is a mono wave and not a stereo wave.

Next thing I would look for is to see how you have the track panned. Is the track panned center?

After that, look to see where the track output is routed to. If it is routed to a Bus, check to see how the Bus is panned. That should also be panned to the center.

After that, go into Console View and check to see how you hardware main is panned. (They hardware mains should show as the last section to the right in Console View and they should also be panned center.)

Finally, how are you plugging in your headphones? I am not completely familiar with the 1010LT (I have a 1010). Does it have a headphone jack? If not, where/how are you connecting the headphones?
 
Does the 1010 have software mixing? Some interface cards have virtual mixers that come in after Sonar and can move things around in head scratchin' ways.

The software mixers let you have extremely low latency monitoring, which is way cool, but you have to watch for them.

-lee-
 
Thanks guys for all you help.

I played around with it last night and all seems to be working just fine now.

I can't explain it, I just went in and reset the Delta control panel and checked other settings and it is working how it should be.

The 1010LT does not have a headphone jack on it. It has RCA outs that I rout back to the M8.


Thanks again guys.


Pier
 
Pier Calacino said:
The 1010LT does not have a headphone jack on it. It has RCA outs that I rout back to the M8.
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I just wanted to be sure you weren't plugging the headphones into "one" of the 1010LT output connections. In which case you would, of course, only get mono playback.

Glad you got it worked out.
 
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