NewTek TriCaster TCXD300, User Manual

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10. Click the DDR’s Play button.
If you have stereo speakers or headphones connected, you should now hear two distinct
tones – a mid-range tone from the left speaker (connected to Output
CH1 ) and a higher
pitched tone from the right speaker (connected to Output CH2 ).
Hint: If you happen to have a ‘surround sound’ speaker setup with front and rear
speakers, you will also hear another even lower tone coming from the rear speakers.
You can also observe that the VU meter shows matching levels for all four input
channels (Figure 36).
11. Next, drag the Balance slider all the way to the left. As you do so, observe that the level
on channels 2 and 4 are gradually reduced. At the extreme left position, these two
channels are completely silent. Only the mid-range tone (on channel 1) is heard, and
only from the left speaker at that – see Figure 37.
Figure 37
12. Moving the slider to the right (of center) has the opposite effect, reducing channels 1
and 3 – doing so without any effect on the other 2 channels. At the extreme right
position, only the mid-range tone from the DDR file is audible (and only from the right
speaker).
The lesson here is that – unlike Mono , considered shortly, or Pan – Balance does not ‘move’
audio from one channel to another. You cannot use it to ‘blend’ channel 1 with channel 2, for