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]

Okay lets start with the answer to the'weird' bit
its because you are swapping the feeds to your monitors (that is reversing the wiring) so naturally wheer first one speaker is active, the other will become so as you reverse which one is plugged int which socket.

This sounds like a completely hardware (mixer based ) issue, that you will no doubt learn to refer to as an RTFM fault (later)
You dont mention which mixer you use, so i'll make a few shots in the dark, hope they make sense to you, and that they help.
In general you shouldnt have to depress the pfl/solo to hear it, it is quite likely that the monitoring / pfl/ solo bits of your set up are incorrectly set.
from a channel input the signal SHOULD, go thru the channel, via its eq abd aux sends and end up at its fader, from there it will be routed to a) the main stereo buss, b) a sub group buss c) nowhere , coz non of the appropriate routing buttons are depressed.
at that point (a) simply raising the master stereo faders should , with luck give you sigal at your main outputs.
Many mixers have a MONO pfl implementation, such that when pfl is active only one channel is used to hear the signal (often the right channel)
it is quite possible that thats the cause of your issues.
If you let me know which bits of equipment your set up consists of( INCLUDE MAKE AND MODEL DESIGNATIONS!!!!) , i'll mail you a basic layout of how you should connect them, and how to set them up for what you want to do!!
Hey everyone has to start somewhere. I heartily recommend a) reading the manuals of all your gear!!! b) the series of 'basic' books by paul white (editor of Sound on sound) available for @£5 each i think. (no i dont know the chap, or work for him, but i do teach Music technology, and recommend his books as background reading to all my students!)
good luck
max