05-22-2020, 10:41 AM
Good Day everyone, Mike here and I am a bass player that has taken the plunge into home recording. Goal is to be able to bypass our usual studio, record tracks ourselves and send out for mix and master.
Getting proficient with Mixbus, but still a few glitches to sort out. I was using v5 up until about 2 weeks ago. My drummer sent a MIDI file of a drum track and I started building from that. Setup is standard, drums, bass, 2 rhythm guitars, a lead guitar and 2 vocal tracks. All live guitars and vocals done with AKG condensor (middle of the road quality) in a shockmount. In v5, I hard panned the 2 rhythm tracks, 1 left, 1 right. Both recorded using the same setup (and amp for that matter). Sounded as it should. One guitar in left speaker and one in right. No sending to AUX or Buses..it just worked. You twist the knob and it goes left or right. When I open same project (or new ones as well) in v6, the pan knob does nothing. It gets a little muddy on one side or the other, but the track still comes out of both speakers.
You will have to forgive me, I am a bass player after all LOL, so my theory is pretty good, but I know enough to be dangerous, not helpful. haha..
Am I missing something silly? Signal chain is.. Guitar->PreSonus Firestudio 10x10 ->PC (fire wire connection) -> Mixbus
Monitoring...The PreSonus has the main left out connected to the left powered monitor and main right out connected to the right powered monitor (patch cables)
I have tried using a group to an aux and adding the connection to the missing stereo side with no luck. All cables are just guitar patch cables so they are all mono. But I am feeding left and right so should work. The issue I guess is somewhere between the interface and the PC (DAW).
I am a newb with signal processing and I am having a lot of "a ha" moments and must have learned a lot about sound in the last 2 weeks. But it also can be frustrating because you know what you want, just can't figure out how to get there. Plus the fact it was working and now does not.. I know it is something I am overlooking or flat out just don't know how to do. Tutorials are good if anyone knows of one to watch.
Thanks for any advice! Rock on. Mike
Getting proficient with Mixbus, but still a few glitches to sort out. I was using v5 up until about 2 weeks ago. My drummer sent a MIDI file of a drum track and I started building from that. Setup is standard, drums, bass, 2 rhythm guitars, a lead guitar and 2 vocal tracks. All live guitars and vocals done with AKG condensor (middle of the road quality) in a shockmount. In v5, I hard panned the 2 rhythm tracks, 1 left, 1 right. Both recorded using the same setup (and amp for that matter). Sounded as it should. One guitar in left speaker and one in right. No sending to AUX or Buses..it just worked. You twist the knob and it goes left or right. When I open same project (or new ones as well) in v6, the pan knob does nothing. It gets a little muddy on one side or the other, but the track still comes out of both speakers.
You will have to forgive me, I am a bass player after all LOL, so my theory is pretty good, but I know enough to be dangerous, not helpful. haha..
Am I missing something silly? Signal chain is.. Guitar->PreSonus Firestudio 10x10 ->PC (fire wire connection) -> Mixbus
Monitoring...The PreSonus has the main left out connected to the left powered monitor and main right out connected to the right powered monitor (patch cables)
I have tried using a group to an aux and adding the connection to the missing stereo side with no luck. All cables are just guitar patch cables so they are all mono. But I am feeding left and right so should work. The issue I guess is somewhere between the interface and the PC (DAW).
I am a newb with signal processing and I am having a lot of "a ha" moments and must have learned a lot about sound in the last 2 weeks. But it also can be frustrating because you know what you want, just can't figure out how to get there. Plus the fact it was working and now does not.. I know it is something I am overlooking or flat out just don't know how to do. Tutorials are good if anyone knows of one to watch.
Thanks for any advice! Rock on. Mike