I’m confused here… I’ve got a sync’d drum machine playing a pattern and being monitored on a stereo track.
If I flip between live live input and the recorded signal (clicking the orange monitor button) , the live input is about 3db louder. (based on the Supervision metering)
Muting the track completely mutes the signal, so I don’t think there’s any direct monitor stuff going on. (and direct monitoring is not checked anyway)
Interface is RME UFX… so using the RME Total Mix… but I can’t find anything odd there. (and besides, like I said… muting the track in Cubase completely mutes the signal so I think the issue lies in Cubase somehow)
No, thanks. Turning Constrain Delay on and off has no change.
I’m trying to think of any other useful info here.
Basically, all I can think of is maybe I’m feeding my Outputs 1-2 from another source by accident. I can’t find this though. (and like I said… turning monitoring on and off immediately changes the level by about 3db.
Like I said, I don’t use direct monitoring in Cubase and I’ve also disabled it in Totalmix. So I can’t imagine that being a factor.
I don’t have any sends enabled.
I’ve gone thru every output channel in Totalmix and made sure there is no other channel feeding Outputs 1-2.
I’ve tried disabling the headphones in the control room and this doesn’t have any effect either.
I don’t know if I added anything useful here, but thanks again.
I’ve noticed this over the years as well. Probably some simple bug, like the pan-law isn’t taken into account when monitoring. Should be easy to test …
When monitoring a mono source through a stereo-bus, the project pan-law is apparently disregarded! Repro for this:
Create an empty project
Set project pan-law to -6db (just to make the issue more obvious!)
Create a mono input bus
Put a test-generator vst on this input bus, sine @ 440hz, -12db.
Create a stereo audio track and set the input to the mono test bus.
Enable record + input monitoring on the audio track!
Set up a 4 bar loop and record this …
Play back the 4 bar loop while toggeling input monitoring on and off - and observe the -6db difference between the recorded vs. the monitored signal!
This is an easy fix … but there is a problem burried underneath:
It seems that pan-law is applied at the start of the signal-chain, instead of at the panner position in the chain - and this is something i have to examine a bit more thoroughly, before ranting on the internet …
the track is recorded as a mono source, if you choose mono (single) input. In configuration (while adding a new track) you choose stereo in configuration for handling inserted plugins in stereo. Because when you set your track to mono in configuration and you put stereoplugins there, it still sounds mono.
Why to have two or three tracks when you can only have one? Why doesn’t it actually sound the same when you listen to it live and as a recorded track? The output should behave exactly the same, because (live) you are monitoring the SAME output (after plugins, which should have the same source levels injected into them as after recording).
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