americanslidol Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 OK, so I'm frustrated beyond explanation. I'm trying to route a group of mono background vocals to a summing stack. However, when I do, the summing stack plays the panned mono tracks in both the left and right channels. If I route the individual vocal tracks to a stereo out, they maintain their proper panning, etc... Shouldn't the summing stack maintain the pan that is being sent? It is a stereo stack... I'm at a total loss and could really use some advice... Thanks, guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Yes, it should retain the panning. Can you show a screenshot of the channel strips, including the main stack channel strip in your Mixer? Showing the whole height of the channel strips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanslidol Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 I'll do that...ignore my PM. What's the "main stack channel strip"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanslidol Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 Holy lord...now it's working. I've reopened this project 3 times and it hasn't. Now it is. I think Logic might be wigging out because I have a ton of tracks with a fair amount of plugins active. This is frustrating, to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 That's odd... but glad to hear it's working.. for now at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
americanslidol Posted March 15, 2015 Author Share Posted March 15, 2015 OK, so the reason I'm even trying to make this track stack thing happen is that I've got a session with like 40 tracks. Originally, I had sent different sets of tracks to different bus outputs (thinking I was creating something similar to a drum group, with all drums' outputs going to a stereo drum buss). I was hoping to save some memory and have effects on the one buss to process the different groups of tracks (and automate volumes). After getting all of this setup and listening more closely, I realized that everything was in both L and R channels, despite panning. So, I thought I'd try the summing stack method. After posting above that it worked, I set up another stack and it DIDN'T work. I'm thinking it has something to do with the effects that I'm putting on the stack (and on the busses I was creating before. SO...what would be the best practice for reducing my processing for similar types of tracks (BGVs, for example) and sending them to some sort of track stack / buss/ whatever? I'm just looking to get some EQ, compression, tape machine, Slate VCC... Thanks for helping...I'm coming from a Pro Tools world and have seriously lost my way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Track stacks should work just fine, so as you say, you may have used a mono effect on the main channel strip of the stack. You can click-hold each audio fx to check its mono/stereo format, and make sure you use a stereo one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matchmoo Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 For anyone else with this issue, for me it was solved by toggling the summing track from stereo to mono and back to stereo again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmik Debris Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 On 6/13/2020 at 10:24 AM, matchmoo said: For anyone else with this issue, for me it was solved by toggling the summing track from stereo to mono and back to stereo again. this is the only thing that worked for me too. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikbeats Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 I was just having the same issues. I'm currently in a very extensive logic session with lots of tracks with summing stacks. 40+ vocal tracks of harmonies, doubles, and backgrounds each respectively in their own summing stack. Pans were not playing even though I know each summing stack is in Stereo (two intertwining circles). I switched it to mono then back to stereo and my pans were active again. Really weird, anyone think its a bug? Currently on 10.7.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakobP Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 It simply means you had a plugin inserted as mono on the channel strip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazingly Andrew Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 On 4/12/2023 at 3:22 PM, JakobP said: It simply means you had a plugin inserted as mono on the channel strip... Thank you, this saved me! I cannot understand why this behavior is a feature, but at least switching my EQ to stereo has fixed it now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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