Sound break-up (crackle); loss of right channel

My Nano occasionally has sound break-up which, when in the 'hold' (locked) position I am able to operate the all functions e.g. adjust sound level. Also, it occasionally loses the right channel - gradually fading out. Its just over 2 years old ...has anybody any ideas for malfunction.

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Not 100% sure of this, but I seemed to have narrowed it down to that... let me explain a bit...
I have an Audigy 2 Platinum and the four main audio applications I use are Sony's Sound Forge 8.0, Propellerhead's Reason 3.0, Steinberg's Cubase SX, and Yannick Delwiche's MadTracker 2.5. Now, here are the audio device settings for each application:
Sound Forge 8.0 - "Microsoft Sound Mapper"
Reason 3.0 - "SB Audigy 2 ASIO [A800]"
Cubase SX - "SB Audigy 2 ASIO [A800]"
MadTracker 2.5 - "SB Audigy 2 Audio [A800]"
As you can see, two of the apps are set for ASIO while the other 2 are regular WDM type things. Here's what I noticed one day while trying to record from "What U Hear/Wave." With Sound Forge's Record window open, the visual line monitor was showing the right channel having sporadic pops & cracks every second or so. Even though I wasn't hearing these pops & cracks from the actual physical right speaker, I recorded something and, not surprisingly, the pops & cracks were included on the right channel of my recording. Not sure where it was coming from, I rebooted, fired up Sound Forge again, and this time the visual line monitor was silent... perfect... but here's where the problems happen... with Sound Forge still open, I fired up Reason and the instant it loaded, the line monitor started with the pops & cracks again.
In short, after playing numerous scenarios, it appears once an app set to use ASIO is started, popping & cracking stays in the right channel until I reboot. Non-ASIO apps seem to leave everything fine but once an ASIO app gets started the crackling returns and the only way to get rid of it is a reboot.
Any idea what's going on? I would appreciate actual help and not some trivial e-pene-fuled "you shouldn't be using an SB for pro audio noob, etc etc blah blah blah"

mcbain47 wrote:
Not 100% sure of this, but I seemed to have narrowed it down to that... let me explain a bit...
I have an Audigy 2 Platinum and the four main audio applications I use are Sony's Sound Forge 8.0, Propellerhead's Reason 3.0, Steinberg's Cubase SX, and Yannick Delwiche's MadTracker 2.5. Now, here are the audio device settings for each application:
Sound Forge 8.0 - "Microsoft Sound Mapper"
Reason 3.0 - "SB Audigy 2 ASIO [A800]"
Cubase SX - "SB Audigy 2 ASIO [A800]"
MadTracker 2.5 - "SB Audigy 2 Audio [A800]"
As you can see, two of the apps are set for ASIO while the other 2 are regular WDM type things. Here's what I noticed one day while trying to record from "What U Hear/Wave." With Sound Forge's Record window open, the visual line monitor was showing the right channel having sporadic pops & cracks every second or so. Even though I wasn't hearing these pops & cracks from the actual physical right speaker, I recorded something and, not surprisingly, the pops & cracks were included on the right channel of my recording. Not sure where it was coming from, I rebooted, fired up Sound Forge again, and this time the visual line monitor was silent... perfect... but here's where the problems happen... with Sound Forge still open, I fired up Reason and the instant it loaded, the line monitor started with the pops & cracks again.
In short, after playing numerous scenarios, it appears once an app set to use ASIO is started, popping & cracking stays in the right channel until I reboot. Non-ASIO apps seem to leave everything fine but once an ASIO app gets started the crackling returns and the only way to get rid of it is a reboot.
Any idea what's going on? I would appreciate actual help and not some trivial e-pene-fuled "you shouldn't be using an SB for pro audio noob, etc etc blah blah blah"
Have you checked if there are IRQ shares with Audigy?
Did you mute other Sources than wave when you recorded using "W-U-H"?
What latency settings are you using with ASIO?
.jtp

The sound balance is skewed to the right.

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Either there is no sound in the left internal speakers, or sound is noticeably lower than the right channel.

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I would like to transfer old reel-to-reel tapes to an iMac. There are different recordings on the left and right channel of the tapes. When I connect the tape deck to the Mac, I get one recording on the left, the other on the right speaker. What to do?

I was about to transfer some music from a reel-to-reel machione to my Mac. There are different sound recordings on the left and right channels. When I connect with RCA cables and Y-connector, I hear one recording from the left speaker, another from the right side. How do I record only one side, but hear it from both speakers?
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You don't say what end, or connectors are plugged into what. I'm assuming the RCA connectors are on the reel-to-reel end. Since the tape has two different mono recordings, one on each track, you of course only want one at a time during playback. Otherwise, the Mac (or any recording setup) can only treat it as a stereo recording with the standard Left-Right tracks.
1) There are multiple ways to connect different types of cables to get a mono signal down to a stereo output at the Mac. Here's one way.
2) Plug any RCA cable (single cable or stereo) into only the right or left RCA output of the reel-to-reel.
3) On the other end of the RCA cable, plug in an adapter like this. That will feed the single RCA output into a mono 1/8" plug.
4) Then plug that adapter into this. That turns the 1/8" mono signal into a "stereo" output with the same single track audio being fed to the Mac on both the left and right channels.
5) Record either the left or right output of the reel-to-reel. Rewind the tape and switch the RCA connector on the reel-to-reel to the right channel (if you started with the left) and record that mono signal as stereo.
Or, avoid all of this hardware mumbo-jumbo in the first place and do this:
1) Record the audio just the way you have it. Two different recordings, one on each channel.
2) Copy the audio recording to a new name and open it in your editor.
3) Highlight the left track and copy/paste it into the right track. Presto! Mono recording of the left track on both channels. Save the recording.
4) Repeat, only copy/pasting the right track into the left track and save the second recording.

How to set audio instruments to record in left and right channels

I am a new Logic express user. I am using a PreSonus FireWire to in put guitars and mic's. If I use Logic Express to record my guitars from input 1 I only get sound out of the right channel. If I use input 2 I only get sound out of the left channel. If I use the Garage Band tab to input the same instruments plugged into either channels 1 or 2 on my PreSonus I get sound from both the left and right channels together. There must be a simple fix I am missing in Logic. If anyone can help me I would I would appreciate it.

Hi t,
welcome to the forum!
There's nothing wrong with your set-up!
MONO inputs to mono tracks,
from the mono track you can add mono to stereo plug-ins and benefit from that.
In garage band you have a mono input that showing a stereo channel, that's what what I have explain above. In Logic it's a blody waste of HD space (not to say wrong) as you recording a mono file to stereo.
Think bigger and pratical now T, those things make all the sence,
GB is so easy that can confuse us about the real thing because it's hidden from your eyes.
Kindly regards,
Jorge

Line In Recording Left/Right Channell

I hav an XFi-Titanium. I select the "Audio Record Mode". Then I record something with a Keyboard that's only on the Right-Channel. While I record something I hear nothing. When I stop the recording and play it afterwards, I hear the sound I recorded and its ony Right Channel like I wanted it to be. Line In is switched on and when I put the intrument on both channels I hear Music li've? while playing on the Instrument. If I put the Intrument on the Right Channel I hear nothing while playing li've. Only after recording I hear what I played on the Right Channel. My Question is why I don't hear the Right Channel while playing li've (When the Instrument only outputs a Right Channel sound) and when I record the same thing and then push play on the record programm I hear the right channel. So if I want to edit a multiple track song and for example put a Piano on the right channel I can't hear anything while playing on the Keyboard. I have to record it to hear what I played. So the right channel doesn't work li've. If I switch the Piano Sound to the Left Channel it has the same effect as putting the Piano Sound on both Channels. (I hear the Piano out of both Speakers)
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Audio input issue - No stereo... Right channel only.

Hi
First to thank you for taking the time to read and consider this if you do - any help in this would be hugely appreciated
Ok - I'll try to make this as concise as poss but it needs some explanation:
I'm home-recording hobbyist musician. One of the things I would very much like to use the iMac for is to back up old four-track tape recordings, recording them as wav or mp3 as the case maybe and saving them to my hdd. Easy right? Apparently not, so far... let me explain:
On the tape recorder there is only an RCA stereo out (red and white, left and right). The very first thing I did when I got the iMac was download Audacity (the audio software), hooked up a stereo lead to the RCA outs on the tape recorder, and ran it into the line-in port on the iMac, using the 1/8" jack.
Now, sound came in, but only the right channel. The left channel was completely dead (ie when I panned the audio to the left, or if there was a sound in the mix that was only in the left channel, it was absent).
Since then I've bought Logic Pro and and an audio interface and this presents the EXACT same problem... Nothing in the left channel. (please note, I am aware you can "fake" stereo by setting a channel-strip to "mono" so that there is sound on both sides, but get this - it only splits the right channel in two - so you still don't have the left channel or genuine stereo signal frustratingly)
It should be noted that stereo sound is not a general problem on the system. Stereo output is perfect (ie on itunes, cds, online etc - or if I'm using softsynths in Logic for instance) it is solely an AUDIO INPUT issue.
Needless to say I've explored all options in sys prefs to no avail.
It should also be noted that I have also tested the actual output of the tape recorder and used the same leads to line into a home stereo system no problems.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or how this could be resolved? I am even open to suggestions for peripheral equipment, sofware additions etc - any questions at all, just ask.
Thanks again, any input would be welcome.
EDIT: I also posted this in the general iMac forum. Posting here for people w specific audio knowledge thanks!

Pancenter, thanks once again.
Sorry about delay replying - have had an internet outage here just to add to my woes haha.
Anyway, the good news is that I think I've cracked it:
After updating the OS per your suggestion, uninstalling both Audacity and the m-audio (profire 610), and lastly resetting defaults on sys audio midi prefs I was still experiencing this problem - just on a line-in to Garageband. Pure frustration.
So eventually I just elected (in lieu of chucking the hardware out the nearest window lol) to do a cold re-install of the OS (erase and install option, backup hdd done). As I bought the iMac in January the OS is 10.5.5 I think.
After install, before doing anything else at all, I opened Garageband, set up an audio track and set input prefs to Line in Stereo 1/2 etc, and hooked up the tape unit via rca and the line-in port. The result? Perfect 2-channel stereo.
My personal theory is that the problem was created by the audio interface installation - an m-audio "profire 610" - Tho Audio interfaces are a frickin minefield anyway between Macs and PCS, chipset compatabilities, dodgy beta drivers, worthless gadget-hawking etc etc... I also realised that while my first original attempt was on Audacity I had already installed the profire unit just immediately before (but didn't use it). I doubt it was Logic which is designed specifically for the mac - I feel this theory might be proven when I reinstall these.
So there you go - get the Audio interface right it seems.. And I've got stereo audio.
Thanks for your help and input Pancenter - much obliged.
Peace.

HUGE audio problem - Right channel only?

Editing i hear both channels or atleast 1 channel split. Regardless, after i export all of my clips except some sound loops/musc is on the right channel... What happened?
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You got it!
That solved evrything.
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Here is a screenshot of one Drum Kit in Logic Pro X with individual Channels Strips. Each Channel Strip can be loaded with individual effects (compressor) and adduced with individual sends, etc.
What that means is that all the Drummers are professionally recorded and sampled with individual mics. The Stereo Drums Kits are just "stereo mix-downs" for easier handling and less CPU demand. I explain all the details about the Drummer ecosystem in my graphically enhanced manual "GarageBand X - How it Works"
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Edgar Rothermich
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I then uninstalled the drivers completely, cleaned them with driver cleaner pro, then attempted to reinstall them by downloading them off of creative's support page.
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I believe your friend can get it replaced, yes. All he needs is the iPod. If you'd like, you can also send it in: http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod/.

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yea i have the same case, i was thinking that might have been a problem. yea i have to send mine back again the second time for the same problem. I think if Ipod just made them right in the fist place mabey they could save some money on all the returns. good luck with your ipod. and remember if you send it back more than 3 times apple sometimes gives you some free loot.

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ok.. i know what know..
most likely is the connector, cuz i play a mp3 and record with wave the same time and i burn that audio to Cd and i listened to it in my cd-player, both side were working. so it's the connector.. i guess
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