SoundGym Community for Music Producers

Alex Angelich
May 15, 19:29 in SoundGym Cafe

hey friends, just dropping in to tell you how grateful I am for all the skills I learned here over the last couple of years. today, I completed my main quest and dropped my first solo album, self-produced and mixed. I'm just really stoked and grateful, that's all. 3

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Emanuel E. Guevara
May 15, 19:31

Great job! Thanks for sharing your first self-produced album! ☺️🙌💿

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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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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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Ioulianos Antoniadis
May 15, 19:06

I use only headphones, don't have monitors.
Currently Struggle with panning.

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Gaspar Acevedo
May 15, 19:13

Lilke @Aike East mentioned, try to use all of your gear. The whole idea is to learn to identify how your space sounds.

That said, I highly recommend that both, your monitors and your headphones are as flat sounding as possible (either with room treatment, good brands, calibration software, etc). In my case, my room is not treated but i have SoundID for speaker calibration and I also bought my headphones from them.

This is a greaaaaaat and fuuuuun place... welcome aboard !!!! You are about to be transformed !

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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. Anything else I might be missing?

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