Audio - Stereo and mono / Buses and output

Hi All.

Can someone put me out of my misery and help me understand audio routing in resolve and especially DR17... Please....

have moved over from Avid a while back and I've been feeling my way along with good results and a little frustration but the way DR handles Audio is really doing my head in.

So background. i do a lot of 2 channel L/R MONO news shoot edits. in Avid i put VO on track 1 L and background on track 2 R. compressed out the other end and all was good.

Im just really struggling to get DR audio as everything looks to be Stereo by default. Sure i can change each clip to mono in attributes but in 17 when i do this only the left speaker plays both tracks. nothing coming from the right speaker or showing in the Bus?

do i need 2 busses? one for the L channel and another for the Right? Do i need to look at this completely differently and embrace stereo instead of a L/R mono?

The bus thing is new in 17 yes?

Any advice much appreciated.

Are you wanting the two tracks centered, or VO panned left and Background panned right?

The Broadcast client needs it Left/right mono. so yes VO left and Background Right.

At the moment there is 1 Bus output in fairlight - both channel 1 and 2 I've assigned to the bus and regardless of the bus being in mono or stereo I'm only getting a mixed output on the left channel. both on the speaker of my edit rig and any file i export.

I have tried adding a second bus, assigning track 2 to it and while that looks good in the mixer i cant hear any output from it and there is no audio on the R channel when exporting. so same problem.



any info would be so very appreciated Jim.

regards

Right click on track 1 and 2, make them both mono tracks.
In the mixer, pan track 1 fully left and track 2 fully right.
Now you you have split tracks.

OK.

Assuming you're working with mono files, add your VO to A1 and pan the track left in the mixer, add the background to A2 and pan right. The single stereo bus will work.

Hi Charles,

try adding each of your source tracks (VO/Music) as single mono tracks, and set up your main bus as stereo.

Pan each hard L and hard R, and you should be good.

That will result in a stereo output file with VO on the left channel and Music on the right.

Hope this helps.

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou.

I spent so long adding buses, removing buses, changing source clips from stereo to mono and back again all to no avail.

The step i was missing was changing both A1 and A2 to mono in the timeline. it worked a treat as soon as i did that.

when you're so used to something working a certain way the addition of the BUS system obviously fried my mind. So can someone explain in a nutshell why they have changed from a main output to Bus output? is it just to be able to group clips for more control and does every bus just output or do you need to do something extra if you do have more than one Bus?

Thanks all. really appreciate it.

In the Help menu, the DaVinci Resolve Reference Manual calls up a New Features guide. There's a section in there about the new Bus format.