mic recording only in the left side!

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whats up FP bretheren...

I'm just getting startedwith recording with my mic and i've run into a lil problem...

when i record in both cool edit and cubase, it only records on one side... i'm running an m audio firewire 410...and i tried playing with settings but nothing seems to be working.....

any ideas on some tweaks i can do?
 
Most software give you the option of recording on the left side, the right side, or in stereo. You want to make sure you have the track set to record in mono and then recording on the left side will be fine. There is no point in recording a single vocal track in stereo.
 
Xabiton said:
never record a vocal mic in stereo
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Or rather, never record a mono mic in stereo just because it's pointless :)

There's a number of situations where you could use two or more (mono) mics to capture a stereo track...
 
like I said never record a vocal mic in stereo. Yes there are times where u would use mono mics to capture stereo. but thats in most cases is not whats goin on w/ vocal recording. As I said do not record a vocal mic in stereo.
 
There are single stereo mics that can be used for vocals too. Nice for background vocals if the place you are recording in has great acoustics. There are not really any "just vocal" mics. People use $3,000 Numan U87's for drum overheads. So any mic used for vocals could be considered a vocal mic. Meaning there are stereo "vocal mics"
 
how often would u really use a stereo mic for vocals tho. Mono source should also use a mono input atleast thats my 2 cents ur right tho there are some dope stereo mics that are used for vocals i just never think about them kuz I would never do it
 
Even a stereo mic is two mono inputs...

Don't record a mono source to a stereo track and you're done.
 
*off topic*

awww you tricked me into clicking into your soundclick.. i thought there was actaully tila and vida videos..
 
haha it works once in a while.

but anyway, i always figured it out a lil after posting this topic...i couldnt figure out how to record in mono, but i did it and it works now. thanks fp.
 
So, you all say not to record a MONO INPUT in STEREO.

I understand why, but I still have a question.

If you record a stereo track in say Cubase, but you select L INs for both sides (since you only have 1 in for mono), you still end up with a MONO recording, just duplicated onto the other side, would this be wrong?
 
When I first got my mic, i recorded in stereo. I was like why is sound only playing on one side. Then I hit my head and went: "Opps".

Record in mono silly. Unless you got two mics or something only record in mono.
 
PhobikONE said:
So, you all say not to record a MONO INPUT in STEREO.

I understand why, but I still have a question.

If you record a stereo track in say Cubase, but you select L INs for both sides (since you only have 1 in for mono), you still end up with a MONO recording, just duplicated onto the other side, would this be wrong?
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It's still mono - Send it to two tracks and it's mono. Send it to twenty tracks and it's mono. Send it to 50 tracks, half panned left and half panned right -

Well, that's just silly. But it'd still be mono. Loud, but mono.
 
So for everything you record, you just use a mono track to record? Not stereo duplicated to the other side?

So then, do you record everything in mono, even say an auto-panned synth?
 
If you want to capture the panning you obviously want to record both left and right sides.

I'll often pan a stereo signal from a keyboard to center on both channel and then record to a mono channel.

So left+right out of keyboard to channel 1+2 on mixing console. Left channel panned center, right channel panned center, group both to one output, and record to DAW. But that's because I want to get all the signal with none of the panning so that I can do/create my own stereo image after.
 
You can get a stereo sound out of a mono vocal mic by doing this. Record your vocals twice in seperate takes. Try to get them as close to each other as possible while you are recording them. Then pan each one evenly to the opposite sides. I do this for a stereo effect and it sounds great.
 
AbsurdNY said:
You can get a stereo sound out of a mono vocal mic by doing this. Record your vocals twice in seperate takes. Try to get them as close to each other as possible while you are recording them. Then pan each one evenly to the opposite sides. I do this for a stereo effect and it sounds great.
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And why not just duplicate track, pan each hard left and right respectively, instead of two different takes?

I'm just wondering the difference between just recording in mono on a mono track and recording a mono in on a stereo track, duplicating the left to the right sides.

The way Cubase and Nuendo automatically setup my recordings is to select both the left channels, if I chose to record a stereo track.

I want to know if this is different, or basically the same thing.

I don't see the difference in my recordings from mono to stereo (I have done a lot of mono recordings and they just seem to not have the space like a stereo, but thats the only difference I can tell).

Is there more of a technical reason of why not to duplicate a mono input to a stereo track?
 
The point of doubles/voiceovers is to get a take that is close to what you have but not the same. This makes you vocals sound "thicker" and not just louder, which is what happens when you copy and paste the same take to another track.

If you record a track to stereo and it sounds better than the mono track then increase the volume of the mono track by 3db and you'll get the exact same thing as recording to a stereo track. It will only take half the disk space. But recording mic signals to stereo is not really necessary to begin with.

Two tracks of the same vocals panned hard left and hard right will give you "big mono", not stereo.
 
sleepy said:
The point of doubles/voiceovers is to get a take that is close to what you have but not the same. This makes you vocals sound "thicker" and not just louder, which is what happens when you copy and paste the same take to another track.

If you record a track to stereo and it sounds better than the mono track then increase the volume of the mono track by 3db and you'll get the exact same thing as recording to a stereo track. It will only take half the disk space. But recording mic signals to stereo is not really necessary to begin with.

Two tracks of the same vocals panned hard left and hard right will give you "big mono", not stereo.
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I understand the over dubs, but the guy wasn't talking about over dubs, he literally said he takes one take for the left and another CLOSE take for the right, for that "stereo" sound.

I do understand what you are saying, how the volume increases with stereo and thickens with over dubs (common recording technique, read about it in like 4 books), but I don't see how having a stereo instrumental, well mixed and panned appropriately is going to sound good with MONO vocals over the top.

I have recorded this way, and it doesn't sound better at all, and in most cases, its worse.

I understand the reason, but besides losing disk space (ooh, my 200 gigs are down to 199!), what is THE BENEFIT of MONO recording?
 
Recording vocals is almost ALWAYS done in mono only. If you copy the same track twice, everything lines up the same, so it does nothing but increase volume. By overdubbing your take, your voice will be somewhat different at times and give it a different sound. This is the closest you will come to recording a stereo track if you only have one mic. If you have 2 mics and space them on each side of you, you can set one to left and one to right and have a true stereo sound but also remember that if the mics are different models, the sound will be slightly different. hope this helps!
 
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