please help with rack eq?

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i just gott a 31 band dod 431 series 2 graphic eq, the problem im having and i know this is a beginner problem but heh we all start somewhere, the problem is it only has a 1/4 inch line in and a 1/4 inch line out and im trying to run my acoustic guitar through it into my line in on my sound card and record into sonar 1.01 and no matter how i pan it only comes out one speaker after it is recorded, im using a stereo 1/4 inch cable with a 1/4 inch to 1/8 stereo adapter from the line out into my soundcard and then from my guitar into the eq im using a guitar cord into the line in on the eq. but like i said it only comes out one speaker and it wont pan to the other one. what am i doing wrong im very knew to this please help. thanks tim pate.
 
From what I can tell from the DOD site, your EQ device is mono and as such it's 1/4" line out jack is meant to support a 2 conductor (tip/sleeve) 1/4" plug.

You can use a 3 conductor 1/4" stereo plug (tip/ring/seeve) but the signal input to your sound card line will still only be on one channel (right or left). Using this arrangement I don't think you can get the sound to come out of both speakers, you might try switching the sound card to mono mode but I don't think that will work either (give it a try).

A better way would be to use 2 cables. Connect your EQ line out to a 1/4" Y cable (tip/sleeve variety), this will split your line out signal to two identical mono signals, then use another Y cable that accepts the two 1/4 connections on one end and has a 1/8" tip/ring/sleeve connector at the other end. This will give you your guitar on both the left and right inputs of your sound card.

Hopefully your EQ output stage won't mind driving both the left and right input stages of your sound card, probably won't be a problem.

Not an ideal solution but it should work.
 
I am assuming since you posted this in the Cakewalk forum that you are using either Cakewalk or Sonar for your recording software.

The problem, as Phyl told you, is that you are running a mono signal into the stereo line in connection on your sound card. Therefore you are only recording only the left channel into a stereo track. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, since your guitar is a mono source anyway, but you want to record it as a mono signal, not stereo.

What you need to do is set up Sonar so that the recording source for the Track you're recoridng is your Souncard's Left Channel only, rather than stereo. This will record the signal in mono and so long as you have the track panned center, Voila, sound from both speakers.

(Go to the I/O tab at the bottom of Track View. Then on the track you are recording to, look for the box labeled IN. Click the pull down arrow in the box and you should see something like Left, Right, Stereo. Choose Left and you're in business.)
 
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