[Gary Eickmeier]

Luxey wrote:
But you threw us off by not mentioning anything about 'and add them
together' in

your original post.

He's just trolling. Again.

OK Lux-O, that is uncalled for. I have an obvious problem that I am trying
to get to the bottom of. I think maybe you are the one trolling for trouble.

I would have to think about Tom's question for a minute - what I did was
invert one of the channels of a mono pair. I guess what I should have seen
was two out of polarity channels, which if played back would sound like a
mono track of speakers that were wired out of phase - hole in the middle.
But what I did get was two flat lines. No, I didn't do anythng specific to
add them together, as I remember. I can imagine that if I had (just a
minute...)

OK, I just brought it up and tried some things. If I load the mono recording
into Audition, I can hear it on speakers but not on headphones. The
headphone function works jst fine on stereo tracks. I invert one channel to
get two channels out of polarity. They play OK on speakers but nothing from
headphones! I take it to Multichannel for editing. If I export it to
mixdown, it remains just two out of polarity channels.

The only way I could duplicate the flatlining problem was to go to channel
mixer and hit Average, which takes half of each channel and adds them
together to make two mono channels. Now I get two flat lines.

All of that makes sense, but not being able to get sound out the headphone
output only with that mono signal does not make sense. Note that if I
deselect one channel and play just one "ear" I can hear it on headphones in
one side. But if I try to play both channels at once to the headphones,
nothing! The headphone signal comes right out of the amp for the six channel
computer speaker system. That amp feeds the speakers just like it feeds the
headphone jack, I would think. Its output goes to the right channel speaker,
which acts as the control unit for the system. The headphone is not mono-ing
up the sound at its cord, because I have listened to a stereo track on it,
and it has stereo and it does not mute the center signal.

Gary Eickmeier