mix down issue

[imgaryshap]

Hello -

I'm a novice PT user.

When i bounce my mixes down to an MP3, the panning switches sides. The tracks I had on the left, show up on the right, and vice-versa.

Anyone know why that may occur?

thanks!

[cdavis6406]

Your monitors are backwards?

[imgaryshap]

Originally Posted by cdavis6406

Your monitors are backwards?

nope. appreciate the joke, but seriously...

[albee1952]

Had it happen to me as well. I just bounce as a wave and use another program to convert to mp3. Lots of free options for that, but I use WaveLab(they make a $99 version and it now runs on Mac).

[Sparky1]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Lots of free options for that

Yup - like iTunes!

Sparky

[Bill Denton]

Your monitors are backwards?

nope. appreciate the joke, but seriously...

Not necessarily a joke...

I just completed my semi-monthly rewiring of my studio only to find out that I had hooked up my monitors backwards, despite my having followed standard "red is right" practice. Which makes me wonder what else I might have screwed up, since I included a patch panel and eight-channel snakes in this rewire.

Wiring with a snake is complicated by the fact that you are dealing with eight colors of wire (or terminations). I do have a very simple method of dealing with this...

If the name of the color has an "R" in it, the wire goes to the right channel, if the name of the color has an "L" in it, the wire goes to the left channel.

For example, if you have a blue wire and a purple wire, obviously the bLue would go to the left channel, while the puRple wire goes to the right. Of course "purple" also has an "L" in it, but since the "R" comes first, it trumps.

Unless you have a case where you have an orange wire and a purple wire, in which case the oRange wire goes to the right channel, while the purpLe wire goes to the left channel.

When, as often happens, the only two wires you have left are gReen and bRown, you put a piece of masking tape on one side, then wait awhile until the dope wears off and put a piece of masking tape on the other end and try to remember whether the masking tape is on the left wire or the right.

At which point you decide it's all too complicated and it's probably all screwed up anyway, so you don't even try to record anything and just watch VH1 Classic reruns until it's time for your next semi-monthly rewiring...

[imgaryshap]

Originally Posted by Bill Denton

nope. appreciate the joke, but seriously...

Not necessarily a joke...

I just completed my semi-monthly rewiring of my studio only to find out that I had hooked up my monitors backwards, despite my having followed standard "red is right" practice. Which makes me wonder what else I might have screwed up, since I included a patch panel and eight-channel snakes in this rewire.

Thanks, but the speakers are not backwards. They are playing properly in pro-tools, and when i mix down the session and play it back in another program - the pan's are reversed.

i'm sorry about your situation but it does not apply here.

thanks.

[john1192]

can we have a bit more info please ...

1) are you making the MP3's in PT ?
2) if not, what program are you using to make MP3's ?
3) when you say other programs, which ones ?

best way to test is to make yourself a Pulse track ...

One pulse for the left side and two pulses for the right side (over and over for a few minutes) ... we use these in broadcast / OB trucks to identify the left and right sides properly ... you can make that using the Signal Generator (in your plugin menu) ... if you need, I can make you one ...

I will be back in town tomorrow night ...

cheers fellow los angeleno ...

john

[bashville]

Is "left" in your hardware setup really going to "left" in your monitors? (have you double-switched?) Conceivably, you could have left and right switched in your hardware setup, but then have the speakers switched, so your panning would work properly within the DAW, but the mixes would of course play back backwards because the speaks were still wrong.

Sorry I don't know what stage you're at in your experience with these things. It has never not worked for me--and if things are switched I take it as an immediate "user error" flag.

It can take time to tracks things like this down depending on the complexity of your setup. Are you using the same interface for Mac system out as your PT rig? That would be another potential source of confusion. Good luck.

[phatbeatstudio]

[QUOTE=bashville; Is "left" in your hardware setup really going to "left" in your monitors?
I did that once thought I hooked up my monitors wrong but I actual had the L,R read R,L Its amazing how many problems seem to be just a i/o issue. Had me going absolutly bonkers when I first started out now its the very first thing I check for almost every problem.