Dec 28, 2005 10:30 pm Did you pan settings in the software default to full left?
Faders
Posted on Dec 28, 2005 07:19 pm
starwood
Member Since: Dec 25, 2005
Got my 2496 card up and running. After my first vocal thru the card I seem to have lost my right side fader and speaker....did I blow out the speaker or maybe a setting in nTrack?
Thanks all.
Dan
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Dec 28, 2005 10:30 pm Did you pan settings in the software default to full left?
Dec 29, 2005 07:54 am Might ahve by mistake. Not sure where to look in nTrack? Or is that set in the Card?
Dec 29, 2005 10:22 am It may be that only the left side was recorded, in a stereo track. Ntrack probably recorded two signals, one of which (the right) is nothing. Just delete it and use the good track as one track.
If it's created as a stereo track, then you'll have to split the track into two mono tracks. Somewhere in ntrack it can be done, but I can't remember right off.
You can tell the software to create two mono tracks, instead of a stereo one, by clicking on the hammer at the bottom of the input VU meter. In there it'll let you create 1 stereo track, or 2 mono tracks.
I don't think you'll be able to only record 1 mono track, only 2 at a time. just create them in mono, and delete the second one.
Hopefully that was it.
Welcome to HRC btw, i'm a n-tracker myself.
Dec 29, 2005 06:45 pm pjk....thansk man. Just tried that. Split and still cannot fade to the right. Also tried on some previous songs where I know I faded different tracs...it's just not playing on the right-side channel. So I'm not sure if I have a soundcard problem or a cabling problem...
Thoughts?
Dan
Dec 30, 2005 11:43 am Yeah, start from the easiest, and work out eliminating possibilities as you go.
Switch the speaker ends of the speaker cables. If the problem is still in the R speaker, then the speaker is bad. If the non-play switches to the L speaker, then it's upstream.
Put the speaker leads back L to L, R to R.
Switch the cable ends on the upstream device (mixer, or computer, not sure which you're using). If the problem is still with R spk, then cable is bad, if non-play switches to L spk, the problem is still upstream.
Put cable ends back, L to L, R to R.
(from here, I'm assuming you aren't using a mixer, if you are, then keep troubleshooting as I've pointed out above)
From here, the problem would be in the computer, either hardware or software. I'd check in the windows (i'm assuming you're using windows) sound controller applet. Volume control, I think it's called. Make sure the wave device, or the master isn't pushed all the way to one side, or something funny like that. Poke around all over in there, as there may be something amiss that's not too visible.
Also, check in n-track all around to see if there's something amiss (though you probably already did this).
Look at the output VU meter. If there's signal going out both sides of the output VU meter, then something's amiss after n-track. This could be the hardware card itself, like one channel is bad.
If there's only one side making the VU meter dance, then it's something in n-track. You should be able to poke around and find why n-track is only playing one side of the track. I've never had a track play on one side by default, everytime I bring in a mono track, it plays out both sides when played back.
Maybe, there's something about n-track that says when you split a stereo track, that it still retains it's pan (like all left). Doesn't seem to be useful, but there maybe a setting of this kind.
If you still can't find the culprit, maybe try the wave file on a different windows sound player, like media player, or winamp. If it's one sided, then the file is goofy, or the hardware is bad, if it plays correctly, then n-track is telling the wave file to play one sided.
I hope you can see what I mean, all these steps remove one item from the signal chain, or test that a certain part is good, and can be removed from question. Whatever is left has to be the culprit.
You could maybe post it, but playing the file in another player should remove any help others could add.
Hope this helps, and good luck.
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