Songs loosing stereo quality during mixdown

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Im currenty recording tracks on a fostex mr8 and transfering them to my pc and editing/mixing in ntrack. It seems whenever i bounce the tracks the stereo image becomes more narrow. Is this normal or am I missing something. And yes Im mixing to stereo but it still seems mono ish

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Could be a lot of things....

S/W user-error... frequency-masking due to fighting of tracks.... phase-related issues in stereo tracks.... over-use of "big-mono" stereo effects ("big mono" meaning - faux-stereo acheived by delay/phase/EQ tricks within the effect unit - typical on many budget units)....

If your mix sounds allright when you're playing it back, but then once you actually mix it to 2-tracks the image gets blurred, I would suspect s/w user error.
 
Does it sound good through the monitors coming directly from your Fostex? If it sounds good coming through your monitors )not through headphones as they seem to intensify the stereo image) then I'd say you may have a shorted cable or something.
 
Lots of variables to consider here. I would create a test mix with possibly a 1 k tone on the left channel and a 2k tone on the right. Run through your normal bounce process and then listen to the left and right channel indiviually. If you hear remnants of both tones, then you seem to have an issue with panning. If not, may be that your polarity is inverted on one of the cables.
 
ALL of the above.


Plus some.

Boy I remember those days !!


Malcolm
 
malcolm123 said:
ALL of the above.


Plus some.

Boy I remember those days !!


Malcolm
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I remember the days of splicing cables from borken headphones to connect my walkman to speakers... I was a destructive little kid... Muwhahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
 
Doesn't wordclock jitter from poor converters contribute a lot to this sort of thing?
 
Im a jackass and wrote my first message inaccuratly....this issue wasnt occuring in ntrack but a demo of deck 3.5 (BIAS) for mac. There is just somthing about that program that im missing because i think when i mix down its only using the left track...i dunno...very strange. Either way I went back and remixed in ntrack and have plenty of stereo to go around....

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Well, it's good to hear you have found the problem. :)
 
Bigsnake00 said:
Im a jackass and wrote my first message inaccuratly....this issue wasnt occuring in ntrack but a demo of deck 3.5 (BIAS) for mac. There is just somthing about that program that im missing because i think when i mix down its only using the left track...i dunno...very strange. Either way I went back and remixed in ntrack and have plenty of stereo to go around....

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NOPE!!

You would have been a Jackass to not ask your question. It was pretty broad and a lot of things could have caused this BUT

You got it going and thats what this place is supposed to be about.

Malcolm
 
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