Pan controls are acting like a volume control

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:43 pm

howdy all...first post here and hope you can help.

At our church we have a Yamaha MG16 mixer....anyways....a couple weeks ago everything was fine....then we come in for practice and the pan controls are all jacked up and are acting like volume controls. Unless you keep them centered they will either raise the volume if you pan left or decrease volume if you pan right.

We have no idea what caused it or how to fix it.....

Any ideas or thoughts?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:35 pm

If mono material was recorded entirely to the left channel of a stereo track, panning the track hard-right would effectively kill the signal. It'd be helpful to know more specifics, but the result seems reasonable and fixable.

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:23 am

Its not recording or recorded material.....its live. There is a problem with little kids running around and messing with things and we think maybe one of them got their little paws on the mixing board.

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:03 am

patrick_like_static wrote:

If mono material was recorded entirely to the left channel of a stereo track, panning the track hard-right would effectively kill the signal. It'd be helpful to know more specifics, but the result seems reasonable and fixable.

Double check your assignment switches and pans. Make sure the outputs are assigned correctly. If they are assigned to mono, then there ya have it.

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:35 am

Are you taking the main stereo outs via jacks or via the XLRs? If jacks, I suggest that the R out jack has been unplugged from the R main stereo out and re-plugged in the L Control Room out. In this way, you would be getting two left outputs, so the pan controls would appear to act as faders.

If you operate the Stereo/Group monitor button or the 2TR in button, do you lose one channel? Also, you could check whether the phones output is panning correctly.

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:56 pm

I'm just guessing the right channel is not working. Is it?

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:18 pm

Dangit. I hate when someone asks for help and doesn't reply. It was probably something really simple and overlooked.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:14 am

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:22 am

I haven't had a chance to try all your suggestions yet...but I do appreciate the help...
Thanks!!

I'll let you know what happens.

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:18 pm

Sweet. A reply.

Gaff tape works well as child care during rehearsal.

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