So I put the utility doubler at the end of my chain and send it to outputs 1/2. Outputs 1/2 are connected to my interface, each going into their own input. It sounds out of phase unless I hard pan the inputs of my interface to the L and R. This is annoying me bc I played a show where the sound guy didn’t seem to understand this and had both signals straight up the middle.
Is this how it works for everyone? I would hope that if I send a doubler to a stereo output, each side would have their own signal without having to hard pan on my interface (or the sound guy on his mixing board).
Live sound is primarily mono. Sound guy needs to reach the entire room with an equal mix of sounds for everyone; therefore he doesn’t care about stereo. If you’re trying to use a doubler in a live context, it’s very likely to cause phasing issues.
The doubler is more useful in a home practice and recording environment. For recording, you shouldn’t have to hard pan on an interface itself, but you would want to do that in your DAW.
This is what I meant by hard panned on the interface; it’s on the software side.
I’ve also played many other live shows where my sound is properly panned so when I play a mono intro, the sound only comes out on the stage left speakers. Then I switch back to stereo and get sound from both sides of the stage. Professional bands utilize this sometimes as well. I like being able to make a live show feel closer to the recording
Yeah, I guess I just wish the QC would hard pan the signals for me, i.e. Output 1 → Input 1 on my interface → Left speaker. It just seems weird that both outputs are sending both the left and right side when each output could send only one side
You can hardpan the outputs of the QC, but it still won’t help if the FOH gets those outputs and runs them centered. It’s all about the receiving end in this case, not the sending.
