Stereo headphone monitoring

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I'm running my acoustic/electric into my delta 44 card with a Y-cable so I can record stereo tracks in Cakewalk. I want to be able to hear in stereo in my headphones. Is this possible? I know it is no good to monitor with headphones, but that is all I have right now. I've tried using a Y-cable from outputs 1 and 2 on my delta, but I'm still only getting mono sound or at least only sound in my left headphone
 
is the plug on the y cable going into your headphones a stereo plug?....
 
Could you guys elaborate. I am trying to do the same thing, however, what am I suppossed to have so that it will come through my headphones in stereo? Should I buy a certain type of adapter for my headphone's jack?

I have a pair of headphones that I am using, so would I need to by a Y cable adaptor to link to the end of my head phones?
 
Hey mercury, I have a y cable now that I've tried and it doesn't work. I'm under the impression that you can buy a stereo Y-cable or a mono y-cable. I'm guessing that my Y-cable is not stereo. I'm going to pick up a stereo cable within the next few days. I'll let you know what I find out
 
Hey mercury, I have a y cable now that I've tried and it doesn't work. I'm under the impression that you can buy a stereo Y-cable or a mono y-cable. I'm guessing that my Y-cable is not stereo. I'm going to pick up a stereo cable within the next few days. I'll let you know what I find out
 
maxwell said:
I'm running my acoustic/electric into my delta 44 card with a Y-cable so I can record stereo tracks in Cakewalk.
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1. Why do you want to record your guitar as stereo? It's not a stereo signal.
2. If you want to record it on 2 tracks you can record the same input to two separate tracks. This way you don't need a special cable. And pan one hard left and the other hard right.

Keijo
 
Warlock is right, but there's more:

The Delta's inputs are line level; a typical guitar signal is not, it is much smaller and needs to be brought up to line level through a preamp or direct box.

Unless your acoustic/electric has an on-board preamp and puts out a line level signal (unlikely since it would likely be a standard signal to plug into an amp or console), you should preamp the signal first somehow -- through an amp with a line out, through a mixing board, through a direct box, through an effects box or amp modeler or whatever...
 
thanks for the tip on recording to 2 tracks, I didn't realize I could record the same input into 2 separate tracks. I do use a pre-amp to boost my signal, that's not really the issue. Actually I use the preamp on the acoustic along with a stand alone preamp box. I'm trying to hear the stereo field in my headphones. I've tried panning the signals left and right, the problem is I can't hear the tracks in stereo in my headphones. Either I'm only hearing the track panned hard left or I'm hearing both tracks only in the left headphone (most likely the first one, I haven't really gotten a chance to experiment with this). This is my only means of monitoring at the moment. And I can't set up the stereo field the way I want to if I can't hear it.
 
Hey warlock, When I set up the 2 tracks to record from the same inout and pan them left and right, respectively, do I set the pan in the Delta mixer to the center? I got pans everywhere!!! Help, Help I'm surrounding by pans!!!
 
No don't change stuff in your Scard mixer.
Plug your preamp into souncards line 1.
Then set your software's channels you want to record to so they recieve signal from soundcards line 1.
Now pan the softwares mixer channels you have recorded to hard left and hard right.
Now you have the same signal in both channels in your stereo bus.

Or you can just record one mono channel in your software and then copy it to another channel. Then pan the recorded channel leftaand the copied channel right.

I cann't be more specific I use Terratec EW88MT and Cubase myself, so I cann't give you details on how to do it with your equipment.

Keijo
 
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