Attention Central Station Users

[mogandus]

I have found what I believe is a bug in the Central Station. It lies in the Cue/Headphone section. Take a mono instrument and pan it from L to R with your headphones on and see if the Left side sounds unequal to the Right side. Also try this with the Cue line outs that you might have connected to a headphone amp or second set of speakers. Then do the same panning through the Main speaker and Main line outputs. I have done this on three units and all 3 do the same thing.

[Byll]

You have discovered a truth, which seems to vary from unit to unit. The fact that you have tried three, and they all show the phenomenon, is interesting. A number of them have volume inequalities between channels at low volume levels, also. You are experiencing one of the reasons I picked the Mackie Big Knob, even though it is an active, not a passive system, such as the Presonus unit. On a positive note, the transparency of the Central Station is excellent.

Best.
Byll

[mogandus]

Byll. Did you own a Central Staion at one time? Just wondering how you found out about this. BTW, the main outputs to speakers and line out to my headphone amp is just fine. Just the phones and Cue. It's nice to hear someone else is aware of this problem.

[mogandus]

Today I checked the custom wiring to the CS. My engineer, as always, had done his wiring with a floating shield(pin 1 not connected at either end). I made a typical TRS cable with 1, 2, and 3 connected and ran it from my convertor to the CS. Now the Cue section's panning is equal from L to R. Running a cable with the shield lifted is okay for the Main inputs but when you get to the Cue section it demands that pin 1 is connnected. Ironically everything else in my studio has the ground lifted with no problems so it is just a design decision for some reason. BTW, the dudes at Presonus were patient and quite nice in hanging with me till the problem was resolves. So if any of you hear the panning askew, check the wiring.