Record more on one side?

[Dj Sairu]

hello! im Dj Sairu
and im new at this forum
i have a question here, hopefully someone can help me

when i record, it seems that Records more on one side.
well... meaby i dont know how to explain it so i take a pic of it:

this is my set up:

Mic: Audio Technica At4040
Cable: Mogami Gold Studio Microphone cable
Mixer: Tascam M-164uf (pan is in the "Center Position")
connected via USB to a Dell Inspiron 15 (3gb ram, 160 Hard drive)
DAW: Cubase

hope somebody can help me!
thank you very much!!

PS: sorry for my english, in not american

 

[mixsit]

It's actually fairly natural and not uncommon to have the waves asymmetrical like that.
Welcome to the site.

 

[moresound]

hello! im Dj Sairu
and im new at this forum
i have a question here, hopefully someone can help me

when i record, it seems that Records more on one side.
well... meaby i dont know how to explain it so i take a pic of it:

this is my set up:
Mic: Audio Technica At4040
Cable: Mogami Gold Studio Microphone cable
Mixer: Tascam M-164uf (pan is in the "Center Position")
connected via USB to a Dell Inspiron 15 (3gb ram, 160 Hard drive)
DAW: Cubase

hope somebody can help me!
thank you very much!!

PS: sorry for my english, in not american

Hello Sairu, hope you stick around.....Hey don't worry about it! That English is better than a lot of Americans or illegal aliens living here.

 

[Dr. Varney]

Someone feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that display is a representation of the stereo.

I generate waveforms like that almost every time I record and the position of the sound in the stereo picture is audibly dead centre. When I have reversed the polarity of the signal (just to see what it would do) the waveform's shape is reversed.

I'm beginning to question what I said above before even finishing my post but what's more important is how it sounds. If your stereo proportions sound right, they are right. Msny people advise not taking *too* much notice of the visual aspect of sound editing softwarem but to use it as a rough guide.

Dr. V

 

[commanda]

What you are seeing is generally referred to as a DC offset. Usually caused by a problem in your signal chain. Leaky coupling capacitors are a common cause. And it has nothing to do with your pan setting.

Some general fault-finding to isolate whether it's your mike, only one particular channel on your mixer, or the A-D converters in your USB interface is in order.

 

[Opivy]

you made my day morseound!!!

 

[Monkey Allen]

What you are seeing is generally referred to as a DC offset. Usually caused by a problem in your signal chain. Leaky coupling capacitors are a common cause. And it has nothing to do with your pan setting.

Some general fault-finding to isolate whether it's your mike, only one particular channel on your mixer, or the A-D converters in your USB interface is in order.

Really? So that asymmetrical waveform where he shows a longer spike on top than at the bottom is caused by what you say?

 

[Massive Master]

That isn't DC offset... That's simply a signal with a hotter swing to one side for what could be a dozen different reasons. Almost all percussives, brass, many more 'breathy' vocalists, plenty of synth patches -- It's completely normal and natural.

Once your zero crossings aren't at zero (minus infinity) anymore, then start worrying about DC offset.

 

[grimtraveller]

Hi Dj Sairu,
Welcome to HR ( I nearly typed ER, there !).
This probably has nothing to do with anything and least of all to do with your question, but for the last 30+ years, I've noticed on records that one side is almost always louder than the other. I just assumed this is normal. If things sound unbalanced, that's the time to worry why. Do your recordings of any individual instrument or voice sound unbalanced ?

 

[mjbphotos]

Looks like some people here think the left channel is on the top and the right channel on the bottom (or vice versa)- that's wrong!
It's not a zero-offset, but not sure what is causing this appearance. As long as the finished sound is ok, I would not worry about it.

 

[moresound]

you made my day morseound!!!

As in the movie *Dirty Harry*?

 

[mixsit]

Looks like some people here think the left channel is on the top and the right channel on the bottom (or vice versa)-..

Well put.
(..and man that needed 'puttin.

And again Dj Sairu, welcome to the Home Recording 'GetYourFreeAdvise' board thingy..

 

[cyrano]

That isn't DC offset...

Well, that was my first idea too.

That's simply a signal with a hotter swing to one side for what could be a dozen different reasons. Almost all percussives, brass, many more 'breathy' vocalists, plenty of synth patches -- It's completely normal and natural.

I'm not certain about percussives, but in nature, nearly all sound is symmetrical. I first wrote "all sound", but I should add "all sound I've ever seen represented on a scope"...

Once your zero crossings aren't at zero (minus infinity) anymore, then start worrying about DC offset.

Isn't that what's happening here? Or should the OP start to look at the power supply of his equipment? That's one thing that would cause an asymmetrical signal, isn't it? Having a symmetrical PSU with one side failing? And wouldn't that cause a DC offset too?

 

[miroslav]

That isn't DC offset... That's simply a signal with a hotter swing to one side for what could be a dozen different reasons. Almost all percussives, brass, many more 'breathy' vocalists, plenty of synth patches -- It's completely normal and natural.

Once your zero crossings aren't at zero (minus infinity) anymore, then start worrying about DC offset.

Massive is absolutely correct.
There is nothing wrong with that display....for it to be perfectly symmetrical, you would have to record something like pure sine waves...typical music sound waves are not symmetrical from top to bottom.

Here's a pic of some guitar sound waves...you can see that everything crosses on the "0"...but the top and bottom sides are not symmetrical.

 

[Jim Lad]

Hey Grimtraveler:
Get your hearing checked.

 

[kcearl]

Moresound...IM NOT ILLEGAL

off topic
hey i was just reading how UK mixers and US mixers favour different sides of the mix, UK to the right and US to the left...and it all stems back to the side of car we listen to music on???

I mean I was going to dismiss this, and this may just be personal preference, but coming form the UK i have to fight myself from making mixes right side heavy.....with living in the US now maybe it'll balance it up to centre and Ill be the atlantics most balanced mixer??!!!


$130 a track, email me at www.earlsupermixingpalaceandcarpartsemporium.com.ca

 

[dintymoore]

The whole thing is exactly the same as if you really check out a chick's boobs, near always one is slightly bigger.

It may be slight and and you might not notice it at first... you might have to really check them out.

 

[miroslav]

As already pointed out by others...the OP's image does not depict a stereo L/R situation...that is a single/mono track.

But even when looking/listening to stereo mixes with mostg music...they are rarely "perfectly" balanced L <---> R

 

[miroslav]

The whole thing is exactly the same as if you really check out a chick's boobs, near always one is slightly bigger.

It may be slight and and you might not notice it at first... you might have to really check them out.

I always make a point of really checking them out...trying to guess if she's left or right handed.

 

[kcearl]

The whole thing is exactly the same as if you really check out a chick's boobs, near always one is slightly bigger.

It may be slight and and you might not notice it at first... you might have to really check them out.

after being in Thailand a number of times I rarely look at the boobs as Im always checking for a penis first





hey this is like a cave thread for n00bs now...well done