Just curious, who here does not use overbridge? Does anyone prefer to record just one stereo track?
Yeah thats what I do.
All instruments into OT or mixer or both. Then I record the stereo output from my mixer. Tart it up on the computer afterwards, or overdub or whatever.
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No OB. Record straight to a wav-file through the Heat.
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I’ve just started trying to use the onboard master effects on the elektron boxes like compression on AR etc… and just record a stereo track from each box
Less to worry about and then you can use the send fx…
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Exactly, one of the reasons why I do it this way.
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Oh btw I’m still using overbridge but just recording the stereo file. Don’t have enough inputs on my soundcard
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recording question: what could I be doing wrong.
recording into MOTU 828es, Stereo in
I recorded a synth line, using the same patch and synth as someone else.
there is some reverb, some panning in the synth. his sounds great. moves across the field. nice and clear. mine, however, as the signal pans across gets muddy, and almost sounds like it dies out. so im obviously not even able to record a signal properly. what could I be doing wrong?
is it not recommended to record a stereo track? is it better to record a right and left? I really cant understand how my recoding is so terrible in comparison.
thanks in advance to anyone who fields this question.
Is it your monitoring? Interfaces sometimes have mono monitoring.
I would try to test it so you can troubleshoot it better or have piece of mind.
Can you record something over USB directly then through your interface?
Not sure if there’s a mono setting.
So, I found it sounded fine thru my monitors, but the death blow was on headphones. Sounded awful. Not sure why I can’t even do basic stuff right.
Thanks for reply.
Monitoring or after recording?
That’s what I’m saying. Interface line outs are stereo, phones out as a DAC is stereo, but phones out while monitoring input is mono (for some)
It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that on my old Presonus 
Using grado rs-1 monitoring sounds, or Yamaha hs-80. Sounds fine there. Put the track on my phone, using Sony over ear phones…sounded bad.
I find most of the time monitoring from monitors or phones from what was recorded to DAW sounds okay. But the final bounce is not good. And it’s just a single track, one synth. 
Hmmm, I would definitely go down the test route then. Run some test tones through the interface, bounce it, and see what’s going on.
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ive run/bounced an existing artists released music thru my DAW…sounded the same.
so I must not understand the fundamentals of recording.
thanks for your help.
I do