US-1800 recording question

[Justinic]

Hi everyone, I just got a TASCAM US-1800 a little while ago, and while recording today I was having some problems. I'm unsure if it's even possible, but is there a way to use the guitar in port to record in stereo? I only get either only a left channel or right channel depending on if I use port 9 or 10. I'd love to get it to record to both channels if at all possible. Right now I've been recording acoustic guitar, which isn't a big deal because I can have the line going to the right and the mic going left.

tl;dr Is there a way to get a line in to record to both channels at the same time.

 

[philadelphonic]

A guitar is only providing a mono input signal. Sounds like you have your track output settings wrong in your DAW. You need to setup the guitar track as mono input on either input 9 or 10 and STEREO OUTPUT (should be output 1-2 if you have your monitors hooked up properly). What software are you running?

 

[CoolCat]

a cable splitter, might work too... go into 9 & 10, then pan in your software on playback etc..
a $5 cable apprx

 

[Justinic]

A guitar is only providing a mono input signal. Sounds like you have your track output settings wrong in your DAW. You need to setup the guitar track as mono input on either input 9 or 10 and STEREO OUTPUT (should be output 1-2 if you have your monitors hooked up properly). What software are you running?

I'll play around with it a bit more. I'm using a trial version of the new Cakewalk software right now, but I remember when I used to use an older version of Sonar with my crappy soundcard input it would automatically do this. I'll see if there's an option somewhere.

 

[philadelphonic]

I've never used cakewalk but I can imagine it being somewhere in your track settings, wherever you can select/change the input you should see options for output right next to it. It should also prompt when you create a new track. Basically all it's doing is duplicating the mono signal to the left and right channels.