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by kozikowski » Mon Aug 10, 2015 6:50 pm
I think we're missing each other.
What's your microphone? Model numbers? I assume it's an XLR microphone like this?
Plug that into mixer channel 1 and disconnect the guitar. Leave the guitar out of this until I figure out what's working and what isn't.
Start a recording and speak into the microphone panned to the left and then panned to the right. The mixer sound lights (lower right) should shift left and right with you.
The Audacity recording lights should, too. They should shift up and down, left on top.
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by cyrano » Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:56 pm
Most guitars are Hi-Z. I don't see a guitar input on this Behringer. I'm not sure, since the Behringer site is rather scarce with info...
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by kozikowski » Mon Aug 10, 2015 10:32 pm
Most pickups work just fine into a 1/4" input like on the mixer. Or all the various 1/4" inputs. Remember, this part-way worked already.
Don't fog the issue. Forget the guitar. What happens to the microphone sound when you pan it back and forth?
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by kozikowski » Mon Aug 10, 2015 11:22 pm
If the microphone sound goes back and forth between left and right in Audacity like were expecting, then the mixer, connection and Audacity are OK and it's a guitar problem. If the microphone will not fade back and forth, then it's a connection or configuration problem.
This is using a known, good, signal source to check everything else.
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by dutchdrummer » Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:57 am
I have the xlr of the mic plugged in channel 1. When the pan knob is all the way to the left, audacity records like this (attach. 1). As you can see, there are silent parts in the recording, this happens when I turn the knob to the right.
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by kozikowski » Tue Aug 11, 2015 9:18 pm
So it's an Audacity config problem.
The mixer sound lights (lower right) should shift left and right with you.
Did the
mixer lights follow you left to right and back?
Is Audacity set for Stereo (attached)?
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by dutchdrummer » Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:17 am
Yes, the mixer lights followed left and right. Also audacity is on stereo input
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by Gale Andrews » Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:56 pm
dutchdrummer wrote:I have the xlr of the mic plugged in channel 1. When the pan knob is all the way to the left, audacity records like this (attach. 1). As you can see, there are silent parts in the recording, this happens when I turn the knob to the right.
Are there dropouts when you centre the pan knob?
Is channel 1 supposed to be a stereo input? If so the pan knob isn't working according to your image. Audacity is just duplicating one channel to the other, which I would expect from a mono input.
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by dutchdrummer » Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:16 pm
yes it is a mono input
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by Gale Andrews » Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:45 pm
dutchdrummer wrote:yes it is a mono input
Then apparently you can't pan it in the Behringer. Does it record without dropouts if pan is centred in Behringer? Does centering and adjusting Balance help?
Does the guitar have two plugs or one? Connecting the guitar to left only of the stereo inputs makes it record mono according the manual I am reading.
What is the objective? To record mono mic at the same time as stereo guitar? Is the guitar really stereo?
You can always overdub. Record the guitar first in mono, then the mic in mono. You can pan each track exactly where you want in the stereo field.
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