switching between mono and stereo

Chisel · Post by **Chisel** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:00 pm

How do you all handle switching between mono and stereo in the STM? I'm using the 2448 and everytime I switch between a mono and stereo input, my connections get messed up. I need to always manually reroute the connections. I don't know if my connection will be mono or stereo from song to song, so I'm always switching back and forth. I was thinking about dedicating a group to stereo channels and just mute them when I'm not using those channels as stereo. Is there a better way?

Thanks.

arela · Post by **arela** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:47 pm

hi
I use all stereo, except a couple of instrument INS (eg chn 21-24)
In Cubase, instead of sending a mono track to eg 8 OUT LEFT, i send to 8 OUT STEREO and use panning inside Cubase.

I used to have one project pr song, with dedicated pre's, but after a while it became quite a mess

Post by **garyb** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:11 am

gee, patching is easy and only takes a brief moment in life...in the old days, you'd have to actually manage cables....

with a little practice, patching won't take any longer than mute/unmute channels. there's a point where it's just called lazy....

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:05 am

each project is different from the other,
so i do my connections from scratch every time i start a new project.
To manage connections with stm is very fast using the popdown menu under the device section.

Chisel · Post by **Chisel** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:21 am

Well, I found a method that is pretty close to how a real mixing board works. I route all connections to mono channels. Then, if I need a stereo pair, I link the two faders in the 2448 and pan one hard left and one hard right. Works like a charm!

Peace /
Chisel

valis · Post by **valis** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:49 am

Make sure you enable the 'phase compensation' switch on the mixer if you're mixing that way.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:04 pm

..unless you stay within groups of 3 channels, which are always phase linked according to the manual: ch 1,2,3; ch4,5,6; etcetera..

at0m, being nosey again

valis · Post by **valis** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:47 pm

psh stop being nosey...

Actually guess I should read the manual someday, that's a bit of info I didn't know

psionic · Post by **psionic** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:03 pm

On 2006-03-24 00:11, garyb wrote:
gee, patching is easy and only takes a brief moment in life...in the old days, you'd have to actually manage cables....

with a little practice, patching won't take any longer than mute/unmute channels. there's a point where it's just called lazy....

Of course, if you ignore all the bugs in the modules

( Try doing it in stm16s )

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psionic · Post by **psionic** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:06 pm

On 2006-03-23 17:00, Chisel wrote:
How do you all handle switching between mono and stereo in the STM? I'm using the 2448 and everytime I switch between a mono and stereo input, my connections get messed up. I need to always manually reroute the connections. I don't know if my connection will be mono or stereo from song to song, so I'm always switching back and forth. I was thinking about dedicating a group to stereo channels and just mute them when I'm not using those channels as stereo. Is there a better way?

Thanks.

yeees... to buy a pro soundcard ?

Post by **garyb** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:16 am

trolling now?