Help Why would one channel of the mixer be quieter than the other?
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Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
What's your solution to the problem then?
Don't be frightened though. It's really not that life threatening.
Baronage-Phase
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What are you scared of? Maybe finding the right answer? Bizzare.
klang
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I love it when people google stuff for me. Esp google experts.
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hiraethified
There's nothing wrong with people offering answers based on Google searches - assuming that they know something about the topic in the first place.
But just regurgitating a poster's question into Google and then going 'look here' without offering any useful insights is a complete and utter waste of time for all concerned.
But just regurgitating a poster's question into Google and then going 'look here' without offering any useful insights is a complete and utter waste of time for all concerned.
sim667
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I assume you've worked it out, but my thought process would have been if it is shown same level output on the mixer, and when swapping xlr's between the speakers you were having the same issue, it would either be a dodgy cable, or dodgy xlr port on the mixer. I'm not sure about that particular mixer, but I've definitely seen it before on pioneer mixers.
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hiraethified
I tried swapping the cables out so as far as I can see it has to be something to do with the XLR socket or something in the output stage of the mixer.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Sounds logical..... I've got a good repairer in Guildford I'd recommend, but I'm sure you got links more locally.
Baronage-Phase
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Ok... duly noted.
I assumed the post was actually rather helpful but....hmm....your assumption seems to be that said post came from a base line of ignorance... as opposed to a genuine search for answers which resulted in a reference to someone else's better way of putting things.
Looking for help and then tossing it back just because it wasn't rephrased for you...is a bit meh
..tbh.
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hiraethified
Sorry, but I wasn't actually referring to your post. I was talking in general terms.
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I was feeling nerdy so I read the manual. There really seem to be exceedingly few settings that could cause this. The block diagram on page 11 could be useful for locating the fault area, and it certainly looks like as long as you have the headphone output set to use the right source, it is grabbing the stereo output just before the final balancing & xlr part. So if all is good with that headphone output when its set to the output the main mix, then almost the entire system is eliminated from being at fault.
https://www.allen-heath.com/media/1617.pdf
Also ooh its got filters, nice.
https://www.allen-heath.com/media/1617.pdf
Also ooh its got filters, nice.
I apologise for messing up your help thread. No malice intended. I just get very annoyed because if you post a help thread on a forum it's pretty much taken as given that the poster would have already googled the hell out of the subject before asking for help. And anyone intelligent enough to realise that shouldn't go to Google and offer that suggestion as their answer. It irritates me, a lot, and I shouldn't have butted in so beg your pardon.
I don't have one because I don't know the answer and am not self important enough to offer a Google answer that the poster has probably had enough brains to search out for themselves before asking such a question
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Yes, I understand that, and agree in certain situations. It was you being 'frightened' that perplexed/humoured me
There's nothing wrong with people offering answers based on Google searches - assuming that they know something about the topic in the first place.
Exactly, most "helpful Google fairies" don't. And if the poster(unlike you,I assume) is an idiot, an awful lot of damage could happen
Exactly, most "helpful Google fairies" don't. And if the poster(unlike you,I assume) is an idiot, an awful lot of damage could happen
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Quite! I mean, editor could have stuck his 5 din plug* up his arse by mistake! Luckily he knew to ignore such fuckwittery from those 'Google fairies'.
*yes I'm old.
Well I cannot attest to that personally, but let's leave the thread back to what it's supposed to be
Baronage-Phase
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19sixtysix
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Back to OP. Fixing this stuff is my day job.
If after swapping between different inputs and between left and right on those inputs and the left channel is consistently down then you you will most likely have a problem in the output stage of the mixer. This is usually electrolytic capacitors failing after a few years. Shouldn't be that difficult to fix with right tools (an ESR meter and a soldering iron).
Other symptoms of failing caps is loss of top end. We used to use 16kHz tone and run through the channels to see which ones were down on level as an indication of a failing channel.
ETA I'm in Glasgow now so unable to have a look.
If after swapping between different inputs and between left and right on those inputs and the left channel is consistently down then you you will most likely have a problem in the output stage of the mixer. This is usually electrolytic capacitors failing after a few years. Shouldn't be that difficult to fix with right tools (an ESR meter and a soldering iron).
Other symptoms of failing caps is loss of top end. We used to use 16kHz tone and run through the channels to see which ones were down on level as an indication of a failing channel.
ETA I'm in Glasgow now so unable to have a look.
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hiraethified
If I can bodge the leads I'm thinking of trying to take the 'rec out' from the mixer and seeing if they both work.
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Of course it was, malice is the reason you are here.
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Why do you keep posting on threads to make veiled attacks on Lupa? It's common knowledge on here that you two have off board beef and quite a few people are pretty fucking sick of it. Why not just grow up and fuck off?
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