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Re: Headphone Mix

2003-01-06 by Larry Mullet Jr. <myhihat@hotmail.com>

Thanks ED,

Thanks for the help.
Have a great day.

John


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus 
<liberatusvirus@y...>" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> That's weird. You should be getting stereo from both sources as a 
> matter of course. I'll sssume first that you're plugging your CD 
> player into the front aux input and the headphones into the output 
> underneath it. If your CD player is of the walkman variety, you 
> should be using a single cable with a 1/8" stereo jack (two rings 
> around it) on both ends. If you're running a mono feed (one ring on 
> the jacks) between the two units, you're only going to get one side 
> of the stereo equation from the CD player out of the headphones. If 
> the CD player isn't of the walkman type, or if you're coming from a 
> receiver or amp, then you'd have to run two independent cables with 
> mono RCA jacks into a "Y" adapter with a single 1/8" stereo 
> connector to the DTXPU's aux input to get music in both ears. 
> 
> The fact that the kit is audible only through one ear also seems to 
> indicate that you have a mono instead of a stereo connection 
> somehwere along the headphone line. Maybe the wires to one of the 
> earpieces is disconnected, or, more likely, if you're using a 1/4" 
> adaptor on your headphone jack, it's mono instead of stereo. In 
> either case, it would be a fortunate coincidence that each ear is 
> getting a different feed. It could very well have worked out that 
> both mono feeds would have come through one side of the headphones. 
> I'm banking on the fact that your adaptors or connectors aren't 
> stereo. 
> 
> What I'm not assuming is that you're running CD player and module 
> through an external mixer, that you're running your headphones out 
> of the two outputs on the back of the module, or that by some 
> strange quirk of fate, your kits are all panned to one side. In 
> those cases, the troubleshooting might be different.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Larry Mullet Jr. <myhihat@h...>" 
> <myhihat@h...> wrote:
> > I just received my DTXpress for a Christmas present. I often play 
> the 
> > kit along with some of my favorite CDs, however, I'm only getting 
> the 
> > music in one ear and the kit in the other ear. Is there a way to 
> get 
> > the drums and music in both ears?
> > 
> > I'd apprectiate any help I can get.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > John

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