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swisshammer
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I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm having trouble with the recording balance. When I am recording in stereo, the recording levels are missmatched. I don't know how to fix this. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!
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ozpeter
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| Posted - Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:41 pm |
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What version of the program are you using, what's your OS, and what's your soundcard? Are you recording from line in of the soundcard, mic in, via a mixer? Is it live material or copying in something already recorded?
CE does very little during recording apart from writing the incoming data from the soundcard to disk. So, somewhere along the line, something is pushing the balance to one side. This could be a matter of a faulty connection, a mis-setting of the windows mixer, or of an external mixer or other device with a balance control, or if it's live, it could be that the left-hand-mic is nearer to the source than the right-hand-mic (or whatever).
If you need to know how to correct the problem after it's been recorded, there are many ways depending on the exact software configuration/version that you have - so....
- Ozpeter
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swisshammer
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| Posted - Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:48 pm |
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Thanks. Here are the answers to your questions:
OS- Win XP
Soundcard- SoundMAX Digital Audio
I'm using Cool Edit Pro 2.0
I run my cord directly into the IN from my pedal. The thing is, it was working before nicely. I've recorded three sessions already without it doing this. I was just wondering if there was an option where you could equalize the right and left channels for the stereo track.
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jonrose
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| Posted - Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:39 pm |
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Your pedal? (What pedal is it?) Does it have an actual stereo output, and do you have a proper stereo cord to connect it to the stereo line-in of your soundcard? Could the pedal setups themselves have changed and be causing this imbalance? Could the cable (or a connector/jack) have been damaged somewhere along the line? And have you changed anything anywhere in the setup that may have a bearing on the problem? What were you doing right before you had the problem, and what's changed (that you know of) since then?
These are the kinds of specific questions that you need to ask yourself - and it might turn up a simple solution.
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Best... -Jon
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swisshammer
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| Posted - Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:51 pm |
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| jonrose wrote: | Your pedal? (What pedal is it?) Does it have an actual stereo output, and do you have a proper stereo cord to connect it to the stereo line-in of your soundcard? Could the pedal setups themselves have changed and be causing this imbalance? Could the cable (or a connector/jack) have been damaged somewhere along the line? And have you changed anything anywhere in the setup that may have a bearing on the problem? What were you doing right before you had the problem, and what's changed (that you know of) since then?
These are the kinds of specific questions that you need to ask yourself - and it might turn up a simple solution.
Best... -Jon |
I've gone through those questions and I'm just completely baffled. I know that I haven't changed anything purposefully. The pedal is a DOD VGS50 and it has proper jacks and I used a proper stereo line. I come from that school of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," and I hardly ever change my system of recording when I find something good. Well, maybe I'm just cursed and the music recording god is out to get me. But as for the pedal configurations: no, there's no way of panning that I know of, which is what led me to believe that there may be some kind of single-track left/right panner for recording. Otherwise, I'm screwed. But thanks everyone!
-SH
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SteveG
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| swisshammer wrote: | I've gone through those questions and I'm just completely baffled...
Otherwise, I'm screwed. |
Don't be too hard on yourself - you're not out of options yet. First thing you need to do is split the problem in half. Surely somewhere you've got a cassette recorder, or another source that you can plug into the soundcard temporarily? Ideally, you want to feed a mono source to both channels, (preferably using a different lead) and see if there's an imbalance in the recording. If there isn't, then you have to look at something other than the soundcard.
Similarly with your VGS50 - do you have a stereo amp that you can plug the output straight into? It should be pretty easy to establish whether the channels are imbalanced at the output this way. Does it have a headphone socket? Quite often, these are derived from the same source as the output - it's worth checking this as well. And if you have a single 3.5mm stereo lead that splits out to two 1/4" jacks (you didn't specify exactly what the lead was), then just swapping the two 1/4" jacks and seeing if the imbalance moves will give you a big clue as to where this is broke...
I agree entirely about the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' principle, but when it clearly is broke, it does help to have a strategy for finding out where, and this inevitably involves disconnecting and reconnecting things, I'm afraid.
As far as record balance controls are concerned, they were implemented on some cards (which is why they show in the Windows mixer), but usually they are not implemented, because of all the trouble they can cause!
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