DJ GOSHER Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 where do go in my harddrive to set it back again to the centre? i cant seem to remember where to find it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 You mean if you play a mono file perfectly centered in Logic, it plays more toward one side? You might have some panning setting that is off center in your audio interface software (if any). Otherwise, adjust the levels of both speakers so that signal is centered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ GOSHER Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 You mean if you play a mono file perfectly centered in Logic, it plays more toward one side? You might have some panning setting that is off center in your audio interface software (if any). Otherwise, adjust the levels of both speakers so that signal is centered. the last time it happened to me i fixed it in system preferences but cant seem to find it now? i was listening to a cd on itunes and it was more panned to one side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Well there's no pan control in the Mac's Sound System Preferences, so if anything it's got to be a control panel that was installed for your audio interface.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryla Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Or your room treatment boosting one side and not the other. Is the sorrounding space identical mirrored? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggman Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 'Well there's no pan control in the Mac's Sound System Preferences, so if anything it's got to be a control panel that was installed for your audio interface..' Sure there is! System Preferences/Sound/Output There's a slider dead centre called 'Balance', and mine also for some reason keeps shifting itself left... Weirdness indeed, but easily reconfigured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggman Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Just realised... I'm listening to Schneider TM's Reconfigures... Arg, the subliminal has me by the naughty bits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Sure there is! System Preferences/Sound/Output There's a slider dead centre called 'Balance', and mine also for some reason keeps shifting itself left... I guess it depends which device you're using and how its driver is configured. None of my devices have a balance control, and the mac built-in drivers don't have one either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggman Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I'm not sure what you mean there David. Granted my third party FA-66 interface doesn't provide that sort of option, but my PowerBook's built in audio definitely does. What Mac are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 G5 Dual 1.8... which only has a single speaker, come to think of it!... but you're right, my Mac Book Pro has a balance control, and in fact the G5 has one that appears if I plug in headphones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ GOSHER Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 thats it have it fixed..thanks eegman...if goes like that again all i have to do is stick in my headphones and then balance them up that way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meezy Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 So strange! Mine keeps shifting to the left too! I only notice it when I'm not plugged into my mbox though as it's only the built in soundthat does it. I keep meaning to post this question on the apple support site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firestarta Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Sorry to ressurect an old issue, but I didn't want to make a new post for this one. There are many cases of the sound balance 'drifting' to the left or the right all by itself (see Apple Discussions for more evidence). I've searched for a way to script it so that I could just execute an applescript and have it reset perfectly to 0 but no joy so far. As for the cause? The speculations involve a bug in the use of the volume keys (up/down) in OS X, particularly in rapid succession at high CPU loads, causing the balance to shift L or R. This is an issue that has gone unresolved for at least four years now - several versions of Tiger right up to the latest. No doubt they improved the code for Leopard, but there's no way I'm upgrading to fix such a simple problem.. in all honesty I think the problem is embarrasing and Apple should really have dealt with it way back! Until then people (like me) who suffer from this problem should check out the following http://www.whamb.com/balanced/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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