HELP! My monitors are panning to the right, Newbie Needs Help with Monitor Panning Options

[kelitupu]

Okay, here's the situation...my parents went away for a week's vacation, and I got the keys to the brand new Porsche....oops, sorry, that's a song by the Fresh Prince.

Anyhow, I'm a Logic Platinum user, and ALL my MIDI tracks are coming out on my monitors panned to the right. I've got the panning in Logic set to the default right down the middle (at 64 in the parameter box to the left), so I don't think it's a software problem. I know the cables are working fine, because my audio (coming out of a Delta 44) are working right (the panning is right down the middle), and the cables I'm running from my mixer's main outs to the monitors are brand new.

Here's the weird thing: When I swap the monitor outs on the mixer, the MIDI tracks start coming out of my left monitor, but the equalizer on my mixer still shows the signal being played on the right side.

So, to recap:

1) I know the cables are fine.

2) I know the monitors are fine.

3) When I swap the monitor outs on the mixer, the sound is then panned mostly to the left monitor (instead of the right monitor), but the signal on my equalizer shows the signal is still strongest on the right side (in other words, the mixer is playing it loudest on the left side, but still registers the right channel as being the loudest.)

On my mixer, I'm pressing the PFL/Solo button when playing back.

I'm definitely still a newbie to this home studio setup thing, so any comments and input are desperately sought.

Thanks in advance for your help people.

Gary
kelitupu@yahoo.com

[macmax]

Ok Mixer checked out
1) Instead of using the aux sends , you could utilise the second stereo buss.
By using buss 3/4 you can simultaneously send any input channels in stereo to inputs 1/2 of the delta.
the additional fader will give you control over the level, you can use the control room out ptu to feed the delta as it can select any feed from the mixer, so you would select buss 3/4 for that while feeding your monitors from the main outs.
the input channel would be switched to buss 3/4 and the return channels to main mix buss.
you will be able to listen to the input send from the headphone socket as it shares the control room out, while your monitors will play the main mix buss and thus you can hear the returns.
you dont say whether your monitors are self contained actives or powered from an amp.
if the later is the case, hopefully it will have a headphone out , thus allowing instant monitoring of all signals.
Note that while the signal sent to the control room output is switchable, this would interrupt the signal going to the mac.
You could always swap which set of outputs is feeding the mac and the monitors, this would allow listening to any signal without having to interrupt the recording chain, play around with these ideas and youll see what i mean.
words of warning, avoid creating feedback loops by sending the same signal in and out and back in to the mac as it were, draw a flow chart of where signals are going and you should quickly get the hang of this.
This leaves you free to use the aux sends on the mixer to feed an external fx processor to provide fx without loading the system.
Also investing in a mid price processor from tc or lexicon would provide serious flexibilty in processor useage, as external fx place no load and no latenct in the chain, you would then be able to monitor with decent fx and no latency or performance issues.
(check out the MPX500 MPX1 etc and try out units from TC electronics and higher end roland/yamaha/sony units.)
more when youve absorbed this lot.
max