SoundGym Community for Music Producers

Harsha Jagarlamudi
May 15, 15:44 in SoundGym Cafe

Hey everyone, I just started using Sound Gym and I'm running into something weird with the Pan Girl game.

When I play through my MacBook's built-in speakers, I can pick out the panning position pretty easily. But when I switch to my external speakers, everything sounds like it's sitting dead center.

Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it a speaker placement thing, or am I missing something obvious? Any tips would be appreciated.

My speaker setup:
MacBook -(USB)- Fosi ZD3 DAC -(XLR)- Fosi ZA3 Amp - Speakers

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Emanuel E. Guevara
May 15, 16:59

Hello! It sounds like somewhere in your signal chain, your stereo image is being summed to mono. Since it works fine on your MacBook speakers, we know the source (SoundGym/Browser) is outputting a stereo signal correctly.
The Fosi ZA3 has a physical toggle switch on the front panel that allows it to operate in Mono (Subwoofer/Monoblock) mode or Stereo mode.
Ensure the switch on the front of the ZA3 is set to Stereo. If it’s set to Mono, the amp will sum the incoming XLR signals and output the same signal to both speakers, effectively killing your pan positioning. Try this! Good look ! 🙌💿

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Harsha Jagarlamudi (author)
May 15, 19:04

Good point, that is the first thing I checked and my ZA3 is set to stereo. Also, I believe the ZA3 in Mono would send power to one of the speakers only. Is there anything else I am missing?

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Adomas Jankevičius
May 14 in SoundGym Cafe

hey, i just recently purchased full version of sound gym, wanted to ask how much of you play with monitors and how much with headphones

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Mike Benza
May 15, 08:29

I use both, I think is important too switch with the different hardware we´ve got to listen the differences and make a better approach of your equipment and your learning experience here.

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Aike East
May 15, 13:42

Id highly advise you to use all the different gear that you also use to produce on. Which should ideally include some studio monitors, studio headphones and some earphones. A small bluetooth speaker or other mono speaker can also be great to check your mixes though not all of the exercises will be possible with that.

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Linda Wagner
May 15, 18:01

I use headphones for everything except the panning games. I find it much easier to detect direction when the sound is coming from speakers than headphones.

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