Hello.
I am new to Cubase (and fairly new to DAWS anyways). I got a Behringer UMC202HD and by updating it to the newest drivers, I am able to record stereo tracks with a mic connected to input 1 only. When I try to do the same in Cubase, I can only get to record in mono or, if I set up stereo, I can only record on one of the two lines. Nothing is connected to line 2 in the UMC202HD.
I would appreciate it if someone can suggest what settings I have to change or what to do in general.
Thank you in advance.
Just to be sure, you do know what stereo is?
Can you talk a little bit more about your setup and what you are trying to do?
Hi Statherian,
I am trying to record chromatic harmonica over backing tracks.
My sterling mic is connected to input 1 of the UMC202HD (and nothing is connected to input 2).
When I record, I can only get the signal to one side (SX or DX) on the track.
On Cubase, I set up stereo in and stereo out, but for stereo in it takes input 1 of the UMC202HD as left and Input 2 as right. On Audacity, I have the possibility to select that input 1 records both on SX and DX, which, I understand not being really a stereo recording, but at least I can get the sound on both sides.
Thanks.
you need two mics and inputs to record stereo
There is no need to record a harmonica stereo.
Just use one mic and a mono track.
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It only records on one channel of a stereo track because you have defined the Audio Input of the track as Stereo In. Define the Audio Input as the Mono input you have plugged the microphone in, then if you record to a stereo track it should record on both the left and right channels.
EDIT: Scratch that, it of course records it as a mono file inside the stereo track.
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Thank you all!
To be fair, the configuration is best left in stereo. Cubase, if you select a single mono input when setting up the track, will record a single mono track onto a stereo configuration.
Under 13 it is not a big deal as Cubase will let you swap it, but it is a problem under previous versions.
The advantage is that any plug-ins on the track can produce a stereo output which a mono configuration will not do. Most of the time it is not a big deal, but any stereo plug-ins would only act in a mono way and there are some 3rd party plug-ins plug-ins that really don’t like mono configurations (e.g. only outputting the RHS of the effect).
See my screenshot, note that the tracks are all mono, recorded through a UMC202HD but the configuration symbols are stereo.
what?
do people really not understand what stereo is?
and what you are talking about, its really only fx plugins that don’t “like” mono
but those are on sends or you use groups.
it’s redundant to record a mono source in stereo and use it on a stereo channel
In Cubase, you can put a stereo effect on a mono track. I might want to add the StudioChorus to a mono guitar track. I don’t need to add it to an effect channel. it makes perfect sense to put it on the track rather than on an effect.
If I use a BiasFX guitar amp plug-in, I have a single mono guitar input, but I might want to use BiasFX’s ability to split the signal across 2 amps and those amps can be set to come out of left and right or any other pan. For that, you need a mono input on a stereo channel.
StudioChorus has a stereo output . It will not produce a stereo output on a mono track.
Similarly, I quite often use a Haas stereo delay on a track, I don’t need to add an FX channel to do that, I can just have it as the final plug-in, doesn’t work on a mono track.
Cubase doesn’t bind you to putting effects on an FX channel, and for example, in the BiasFX example above, it actually doesn’t make much sense to put the guitar amp anywhere but on the original track.
This is extremely specific to your workflow and has nothing to do with stereo recording techniques. what you do with the channels afterwords is up to you.
but as you said, it isn’t recorded in stereo.
Yes, that will do the trick!
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