Guitar tracks pro 3 - sound correction?

Hi guys,
This is my first post on the forum....have only had guitar tracks pro 3 for 3 years!! Better late than never I guess. Am glad to have found the forum however and am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. I'm getting stuck into some more recording after quite an absence but want to sort this before starting! Anyway, my issue is as follows:
 
When I record a track, upon play back, the sound is only coming out of one of my two speakers (i.e. hooked up to my laptop). When I burn the tune to CD and play back on my mp3 player, I can hear all of the tune (guitars, bass, drums etc) through one ear phone. I have tried the "Pan" (which is set at C for centre I guess), left and right but no joy. From looking at some of my old recordings, I think I may know where the problem lies.....but don't know how to solve it.
 
On the "range bar" - where it gives the options to choose 12dB range, 24bB range etc - when I have my guitar plugged in (via my laptop) and begin recording, the sound is registering by way of the light blue line that goes back and forth depending on volume, but only on the top half. The light blue line on the botom half, so to speak, stays where it is. I changed one of the sounds to "chorus", under sound options and this made both blue lines go up together and sound was then coming out of both speakers - that's why I think these blue lines are the issue. However, I don't want to put all my tunes to "chorus" to solve it.
 
Here's a link to a pic that should hopefully show what I'm trying to explain!
 
http://picasaweb.google.com/shabbyalonso/GuitarTracksProblem#5526917085531301954
 
I hope the above makes sense therefore any ideas would be most welcome. The program I'm using, as mentioned, is guitar tracks pro 3.
Many thanks in advance guys
 
 

Hi RobertB,
Many thanks for your reply.
I'm not currently at my laptop but will do my best to describe my set up. You are correct in that I have my guitar plugged into my laptop..but it's firstly running through an amp.

I have a marshall amp and have my guitar plugged into same. I then have a jack-lead coming out of the amp (line out..I think!) using another jack-lead (plus a jack-adapter), plugged into the laptop, so effectively working through the amp in a sense.
With that, the sound from my guitar & amp is being picked up by guitar tracks pro, as per the picture, and when I play, I can see the blue line moving. I have never changed the dB setting - I'm not the most technically gifted and didn't know whether these settings should be changed. Once I got GTP3 set up and working, I was delighted with the fact that I was set up and able to record!

That's pretty much it - it's a pretty straightforward set up, I don't have any other programs running alongside it.
Hopefully that explains it and any further suggestions RobertB or anyone, would be most welcome. Thanks again

 
Hi there Alan, and welcome aboard.
 
Robert's definitely identified your problem here - you seem to be recording your signal to one side of a stereo track.
 
As a temporary solution, try changing the Input selector at the top of a track to mono. Click on the drop-down options and select: LEFT (NAME OF YOUR SOUNDCARD).
 
Now try recording with your current set-up (if that doesn't work, try selecting the RIGHT option).
 
Here's how it looks with the 'Left' input on my TonePort UX2 soundcard selected:
 
 

 
 
 
As a more permanent solution, could you check your whole signal chain from your guitar to your computer and let us know what it is Alan.
 
Somewhere along the line (I'm guessing it might be your ¼” → ⅛” adapter) you may have a stereo component connected to a mono component which is only allowing the signal to pass onto one of the stereo channels.
 
 
Steve
 

Hi again Steve - quick update.

I chose the "left" option and it worked a treat - thanks a mill! Great stuff.
However, I tried to select this on some of my recorded tunes already but no joy - doesn't seem to allow you to retrospectively change settings, as I would like - that sound right to you? I guess if you don't record in a certain way, it would allow you to change it afterwards. At least I'll know for future reference anyway.
Will be back though with details of my set up so you may be able to shine more light on it when I post back.
Cheers again Steve,
Alan

P.S. These are some of my recordings from a couple of years back if at all interested - a mixed bag really but was only learning about this whole recording thing at that stage - as per my problem here, all sound coming through the one speaker! Ah well, I can always record them "properly" again! (p.s. not even sure if I can be plugging such things here - if not, apologies in advance and I shall remove)

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Hi again Steve - you're a star. Thanks for the effort you put into your reply, I really appreciate it.
It has worked a treat so thanks again. At least, for any new records, I'm 2/3's of the way there and I say this due to the following.
 
I've attached some pics to show my set up and some other pics to show that:
a) the default setting shows the "sound/speaker" at stereo. Leaving it there (as per my original problem), means sound coming out of only the right speaker. a) when I change it to "left", it records to both speakers, so to speak but c) when I choose the "right" option, I don't get any sound registering. Not a huge issue but still, would be nice to have the choice to record to the left and/or right and/ or both speakers at a given time.
 
I have used the edit mode, as per your post on my old recordings and it's worked perfectly. I can change individual recorded pieces within the tunes aswell to mix it up a little which is great (but can be time consuming!!!). Great stuff though.
 
Here's my set up:
Guitar plugged to amp :
This is just the norm for plugging the guitar into the amp
Next, I have a jack lead coming out of "Line Out" as so:

Next pic shows the adapter that I plug the end of the jack into:

Lastly, how it is plugged into the laptop

 
The green wire beside it is the plug in for the speakers.
Last, but not least, this is the message I get on my laptop when I plug in the gold adapter:

 
Nearly forgot - as mentioned about Steve, I can chose stereo and left options and I get sound. Choosing right option, doesn't give me anything. See pics to show each option and at the bottom, sound from the guitar being registered. Hope this makes sense!


 
I've actually left out the pic showing me choosing the right option but as above, it doesn't register sound for some reason.
 
You've already given me loads to work with Steve and again, I appreciate it very much so if you can't shed any light on this issue, no worries in the slightest. Hope this all makes sense and thanks again, it's been a pleasure!
Cheers,
Alan