[swanny]

On 8/04/2013 4:52 PM, Gary Eickmeier wrote:
I have a problem that even I can't solve. It's an impossible situation, yet
here it is.

I recorded my concert band yesterday. I took the sound of the soloist singer
off the sound board by using a little extra recorder and a patch cord. The
take out was a mono phone jack split to a stereo input to my recorder. So I
am recording a mono signal into both tracks, OK?

So I come home to edit this, and I get no sound on playback on the computer.
I drag it into Audition so that I can see the waveform, and sure enough a
strong signal was recorded. So hey, play it back from the timeline in
Audition, and.... still nothing! A big fat signal! The stereo track from the
main recorder plays just fine, but this mono track doesn't even squeak!

So by now you are thinking of a phase reversal, right? So I look at the
signal on screen and magnify the crap out of it and both channels are in
phase just fine! It HAS to have sound! I tried reversing the phase
(polarity) of one channel anyway, but when I did that, guess what happened?
The signal on screen went from this big fat signal to two straight lines -
no signal at all! Undo the phase reversal and back come the waveforms!

If I play just one of the channels, I get the sound just fine, but I simply
cannot conceive what is going on here. I would be ever so grateful if
someone out there could supply me with what is happening. I even tried the
Channel Mixer function and told it to "Duplicate Left Channel" in both
channels, but it did not work!

HELP!

Gary Eickmeier



What does the pan control do to the output?