Audio Imbalance

ed-snape wrote on 11/4/2015, 11:23 AM

I have the left channel of a stereo pair on track 3 and the right channel on track 4, panned 100% left and right respectively. There is about 9 dB level imbalance. The original media is balanced. I have checked and rechecked pans, sliders, mutes, automation, and master channel settings and all appear correct. Sliding a stereo pair of events down to tracks 5 & 6 fixes the problem, but I sure can't discern why these tracks are different from 3 & 4. Any tips or suggestions will be much appreciated.

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Chienworks wrote on 11/4/2015, 12:59 PM

A screen shot would be very helpful.

john_dennis wrote on 11/4/2015, 1:17 PM

If you right-click at the end of the Pan Slider, did you add the audio to the tracks with the same option? Verify Add Channels (0 db Center).

9 db is equal to one channel added at Balance (-3 db Center) and one channel added at Balance (-6 db Center) if they are panned in different directions.

ed-snape wrote on 11/4/2015, 2:49 PM

Hi John,
All pans are at Add channels (0 dB Center)
Thank you for responding.

ed-snape wrote on 11/4/2015, 2:51 PM

Hi Chienworks,
Not sure how to add screenshot to a post.
Thank you.

john_dennis wrote on 11/4/2015, 3:10 PM

To add a screenshot:

Press the Print Screen key

Open Paint and Strike Ctrl+V

Save as Screenshot.png or .jpg

Upload to a cloud storage site such as dropbox.com

Copy the public link from the file on dropbox.com

paste the link into your SCS post

See the New Markup for Forum Posts sticky at the beginning of this forum.

ed-snape wrote on 11/4/2015, 8:37 PM

Thanks for your guidance on posting the screen shot.. Meanwhile, something spooky has happened. The volume slider on the mixer was suddenly up to + 12. When I brought it back to 0; the imbalance was corrected. I am sure that I had previously checked the sliders many times, but to reassure myself. I have a screen shot made a few minutes earlier which confirms that all sliders were at 0 at a time when the imbalance still existed. Any thoughts as to why the audio controls imagery seems so wacko? Windows 10?

rraud wrote on 11/5/2015, 12:19 PM

Don't have VP13 or Win 10. Most of my 'unwanted' volume changes are 'pilot error' .. dragging the fader up/down or mis-selection and moving the scroll wheel .

john_dennis wrote on 11/5/2015, 2:19 PM

Years ago, a sagely senior person that I worked with blamed things like this on "FM". The forum filters wouldn't allow me to spell it out.