Recording program outs of 6k

[Jermbob]

When I record the program outs of the desk, the left side is about 3db louder than the right.

Thoughts?

[kilmister]

Bad coupling capacitor in signal way is my first thought.

-Paavo

[marcmozart]

Ribbon Connection(s) on the Lower Bus Card? Just sayin' as I had a similar problem, but mine was limited to one bucket.

http://forum.sslmixed.com/index.php?topic=301.msg1368#msg1368

[Jermbob]

Another thing to point out is that it doesn't seem to matter which mix bus I use.

[marcmozart]

I might be wrong, but that tells me the problem is either before or after the mix-busses. (it's three of them on a 6K)

Another thing to point out is that it doesn't seem to matter which mix bus I use.

[Jermbob]

I might be wrong, but that tells me the problem is either before or after the mix-busses. (it's three of them on a 6K)

Another thing to point out is that it doesn't seem to matter which mix bus I use.

You're probably right. It doesn't seem to be the ribbon connections on the lower bus card. Do you have any other ideas?

[sintech]

You need to use the Patchbay to find the problem area. 

Plug a bantam lead directly into your multitrack returns, put the associated Protools channel into record (calibration mode if needed)

Feed a 1k tone via the oscillator into any channel. Then surf the bay to see where the 3dB difference is or not. The 6k will have inserts for the 3 groups, this then finally all sums to the 651.

You can use a block diagram to map all the points.

[Kats]

This happened to me and all three mix buses were out by varying degrees. It turned out the cards were not seated properly. Very finicky.

[xmax]

You could have lost one of the +/- legs of the balanced signal, cleaning and reseating the center section cards fix
a lot of problems when something is flakey in the quad buss (6 buss in your case) also dirty normalled TT's
on the quad insert points. I have also seen this (LorR side -3db) happen after a desk has been off for a while,
then goes away after desk has been on for a bit, in this case it usually is a electrolytic coupling cap
in the comp cards. if one side is all distorted for awhile when the desk is cold
(first turned on after is was off for a hour or so) then often it would be one
of those funky stacked ceramic caps.