By Ill-Green
Sat Dec 30, 2017 7:36 pm
Good day to all beatmakers, producers and Djs.
6 months ago, I bought a Roland Cube 30 to monitor my sampling and playing, plus listen to records instead of having multiple equipment powered on just to listen on a pair of KRK 8s. With the Cube, I can just have a sampler and turntable powered up and everything is dandy.
However, I just realized something about the Cube 30 that never caught my attention until now; it cancels out center frequencies! Here I'm thinking "when the hell did they made instrumentals for these albums and when did I bought them?" So I decided to dissect the issue by listening to the sampler itself through headphones and wadda ya know I hear the vocals, stereo intact. But out the Cube, I only hear the instrumental, which is cool in its own right but if I was to produce a beat and then master it to a DAW, that track would have random unintended vocals and sounds all over the place and I would have to craft the beat again by scratch. So I know its not the turntable's fault, I looked into the sampler and pulled out the left output and the vocals magically reappeared on the Cube 30. I pushed it back in and its an instrumental again. Same was done for the right output and same result. Sampler is good. So I do the same test for the Cube but for it's inputs and same result. Cube has 5 inputs and they all cancelled the center.
Now I take a Y cable, which combines a stereo signal into mono, connected the right and left outputs of the sampler and then plugged the lone side into Cube's Channel 1 input which is just one mono slot for XLR mics or 1/4" jacks. Should end the suffering right. Nope. I still get instrumentals.
I was wondering if anyone else has a CM30 and familiar with this problem. Would be cool to sample this stuff but unfortunately the Cube does not have line outs Good thing, I am only using it to monitor the beatmaking process but this is driving me mad.
Thank you in advance
6 months ago, I bought a Roland Cube 30 to monitor my sampling and playing, plus listen to records instead of having multiple equipment powered on just to listen on a pair of KRK 8s. With the Cube, I can just have a sampler and turntable powered up and everything is dandy.
However, I just realized something about the Cube 30 that never caught my attention until now; it cancels out center frequencies! Here I'm thinking "when the hell did they made instrumentals for these albums and when did I bought them?" So I decided to dissect the issue by listening to the sampler itself through headphones and wadda ya know I hear the vocals, stereo intact. But out the Cube, I only hear the instrumental, which is cool in its own right but if I was to produce a beat and then master it to a DAW, that track would have random unintended vocals and sounds all over the place and I would have to craft the beat again by scratch. So I know its not the turntable's fault, I looked into the sampler and pulled out the left output and the vocals magically reappeared on the Cube 30. I pushed it back in and its an instrumental again. Same was done for the right output and same result. Sampler is good. So I do the same test for the Cube but for it's inputs and same result. Cube has 5 inputs and they all cancelled the center.
Now I take a Y cable, which combines a stereo signal into mono, connected the right and left outputs of the sampler and then plugged the lone side into Cube's Channel 1 input which is just one mono slot for XLR mics or 1/4" jacks. Should end the suffering right. Nope. I still get instrumentals.
I was wondering if anyone else has a CM30 and familiar with this problem. Would be cool to sample this stuff but unfortunately the Cube does not have line outs Good thing, I am only using it to monitor the beatmaking process but this is driving me mad.
Thank you in advance