Pan Right Anyone?

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Pan Right Anyone?

Okay, I can record in stereo and in mono but when I go to mix down I want to be able to pan some of my tracks to the right speaker, but no such luck. I have read the online help regarding the pan feature and no matter what I do (use the pan on the fly feature, turn off reverb and echo in the master, turn off compression all these things suggested in the online help) I still can not pan to the right in my mix downs. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, much thanks.

Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 5, 2006 2:16 PM

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HangTime

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Mar 5, 2006 2:44 PM in response to danriko

What happens when you pan right?

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danriko Author

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Mar 5, 2006 3:37 PM in response to HangTime

The further right I pan from center the lower the volume goes, even though in stereo mode the meters indicate the signal strength is the same for both the left and right sides of the same real instrument. Frustrating!

Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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HangTime

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Mar 5, 2006 4:14 PM in response to danriko

Set the track to mono.

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danriko Author

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Mar 5, 2006 4:38 PM in response to HangTime

Thanks HangTime,

I have tried that and still will when I pan to the right the volume just diminshes until there is no sound. I'll keep working at it thanks!

Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Mar 5, 2006 5:21 PM in response to danriko

What kind of a region is it? We'll try to duplicate it here.

Almost sounds as if your Garageband install is corrupt.

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danriko Author

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Mar 5, 2006 7:51 PM in response to MyApple8MyPC

I appreciate your help but I just discovered the problem may be with my headphones as strange as that seems. When the pans are set to the middle I hear in both left and right ear as I should, but as I gradually pan to the right ear the sound is reduced and eventually goes silent as a I pan hard right.

HOWEVER, when I send the mix to iTunes I can hear the instruments where they are suppose to be, instruments panned right are heard in the right ear.

SO I am working with the headphone jack and I think the problem may be with my sony headphones, apparently the jack may have a loose connection. Bummer, they are relatively new and have great sound quality. But when I shake the cord a little bit the sound fades in and out...ergggh!

I appreciate your offer and HangTime's offers to help. Thanks

Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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xs4is

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Mar 5, 2006 8:41 PM in response to danriko

The headphones shouldn't matter. Especially if you are using the same headphones to hear the 'correct' mix in iTunes.

If the problem is in the right earphone, it should be cutting in and out when your pan is set to center as well leaving only the left channel at those moments.

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Lingua

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Jul 6, 2006 2:02 AM in response to danriko

I have the same problem as described and cannot pan right. I don't have access to Logic Express at time of writing, but can anyone confirm the suggestion that if track is set to mono I will be able to pan left and right??

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HangTime

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Jul 6, 2006 5:31 AM in response to Lingua

http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#leftspeakeronly

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Jul 6, 2006 6:37 AM in response to Lingua

It sounds like the headphones are only getting the left side signal.
Are they stereo headphones? Check by looking at the plug: if the plug has three metal conductors, separated by two plastic insulators, they are stereo. If there's only one plastic insulator, they are mono.

Another way to say it: a stereo plug has a tip, ring and sleeve. A mono plug has only tip and sleeve (no ring in between).

This symptom would be caused by using mono headphones, or stereo headphones not plugged in correctly.

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Lingua

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Jul 6, 2006 9:57 AM in response to danriko

I have posted a similar enquiry myself recently, but have chanced across a workaround that might help? I have trying to (unsuccessfully) pan tracks on left and right but could only manage to the left. Someone suggested changing track to mono, but that did not appear to help - however, of you click on the pan pot and the level no. appears in a dialogue box you can enter + or - values before the number and can pan away to your heart's content on a static basis.

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Jul 6, 2006 4:49 PM in response to Lingua

I just checked on the latest version of GarageBand 3 on my Quad, and panning of both mono and stereo tracks works correctly.

The 'switch the track to mono' suggestion is only appropriate for a mono track. If you record a mono source (like electric guitar) on a track set for stereo, you'll end up with the sound on one side only. Trying to pan it to the other side will result in silence. This is correct behavior.

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Aug 28, 2006 3:38 AM in response to danriko

I have encountered this problem also - LE 7.2

But its not on every track - If you are bored try this

File - new, use the 24 track template.
Load up 24 mono files
Try panning track 24 to the right

Hmm.. If you know anyone at apple, ask them to try it as well!

.. and no, it's nothing to do with headphones, soundcards, mono/stereo switching etc. It.s just a good old fashioned bug.

Phil

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Aug 28, 2006 4:34 AM in response to Phil Sharp

Maybe you should go to the Logic Express forum with this problem.

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Trevskii

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Jan 11, 2007 2:05 PM in response to danriko

Hi there,
I hope you don't mind me jumping in on this post thread after all this time, but did you ever get to the bottom of your 'pan right' problem? If you did that would be great, because I have it too! What IS that?

I'd appreciate your help

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