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Am I a moron? Audio mixer, dual mono, can’t hear Track 2
Clearly I am doing something moronic here, but hoping somebody can pick up on it and school me. Feel free to call me a moron in doing so.
Captured 2 tracks of audio along with DVCPRO HD footage. Audio was recorded using two different mic: lav and boom.
Edit both tracks of audio onto tks 1 and 2 in the sequence.
Settings in the “General” tab of “Sequence Settings” are set to “Discrete Channels” (I assume that since these are two diff mics this is correct)
Settings in the “Audio Outputs” tab are set to “Dual Mono” (again, two diff mics, don’t necessarily want them mixed together).
I right-clicked each of the audio tracks in the sequence and set track 1 to audio output 1, track 2 to audio output 2.
Here’s the issue: I’d like to hear each mic isolated, as I’ll be using audio from each of them as the situation warrants. However, for some reason it doesn’t ppear that track 2 is patching through to my speakers. If I solo track one, I see levels and hear the audio from that mic. But if I solo track two, I see the levels bouncing, but no audio is coming out. If I swap which tracks each mic is on, I can hear that mic (formally on track 2) only if I place it into track 1. If I solo track 2 and use downmix on the audio tool, of course I can hear that track then.
Why can’t I hear what’s on track two – even though the levels are obviously moving independently of track 1 per the audio mixer – through my speakers?
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3 Replies
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Rather that Dual Mono, if you set your output to Stereo you’ll hear both channels. Your two tracks are still independent of each other, and you just need to mix the audio accordingly (i.e. fade up the lav mic when the presenter is talking, and bring the boom back in for general sound effects.
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When I set output to Stereo and solo track 2, same result – see audio levels bouncing, nothing coming out of speakers.
I can use the “donwmix” button on the audio mixer and then I can hear track 2 solo’ed by itself, but it is totally bugging me that no sound comes out of that track when I see healthy green levels without using “downmix.”. I feel like there should be a way to hear track 1 coming out of my left speaker and track 2 out of my right, no?
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For the sake of argument, let’s say you want your boom coming out of your left speaker. Double click the boom audio and in the viewer you’ll see the clip’s waveform. Above the waveform set the Pan slider to -1.
Do the same with the lav audio, but set to +1.This will give you each separate audio coming out of different speakers. However, this isn’t generally done unless it’s purely for preview purposes as you can imagine people watching on TV are thinking that one of their speakers is broken when you’re just using sound from the boom.
If this is for broadcast or for a client of some kind your best bet is to just mix the audio as you see fit, so fade the different mics up and down according to what actually sounds best to you.
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