I ran split omni's at moe.down on Sun. night, for moe.'s set. I'm not really sure what happened, and would appreciate any help figuring it out. Here's the deal: I ran 4060's, about 7.5' high (the left may have been 6" lower than the right), split 8', left was DFC (right was 8' ROC, duh), directly in front of board. Rest of gear is microdot/XLR adapters>Aerco MP2>D10ProII. First tune, check the levels, I notice the left channel is stronger than the right. Adjust as much as I can, on the fly, with the wheel, boosting the right while lowering the left. Still didn't get it even, but close enough where I said I could fix the rest with Wavelab. Awesome show ensues!!
Transfer to Wavelab. Immediately notice a large difference when looking at the waveform, with the left channel being significantly bigger than the right. Put the phones on (and here's where the fun starts), the stereo image (for lack of a better term), is shifted way over to the right! I listened to just the left, there's music there, it's just missing some parts that the right has. Bust out the frequency meters in Wavelab, find out there's significant drops in the levels, in a curve form, around 170Hz and 2.6kHz. I used the Q function to give the left a boost at these frequency ranges and it sounds better, but still not as great as I thought it'd be.
My question being, how can the waveform and levels, that represent the left signal, be so much bigger than the right, but the right be favored so much more in actual sound? I was thinking along the lines that the left mic. may have been in a bad position, whereas the two frequencies I mentioned that were low, were somehow cancelled out by opposing waves, creating a sonic blindspot of sorts, but that doesn't explain the extremely strong looking left signal, on paper. Then I got to thinking, maybe there was some sort of ultra low frequencies coming in to the left that made the levels look higher, but couldn't actually be heard. Not sure about this either, since I can hear about equal kick drum in each channel. So that leaves me with equiptment failure. Which is a possibility that I'm going to explore, however, all of this gear worked a couple of weeks ago, when I taped The Wilder's with it. Used split omni setup there too. Any idea's?