Digging this one up from a decade ago, recently purchased a brand new 45000 and same issue, Dry Out pan is reversed.

At this very moment I’m running it in mono, I have a source plugged into RIGHT input, and the RIGHT output sent to a console via DI. There is nothing else connected to the unit, NOTHING is connected to either LEFT input or LEFT OUTPUT.

Dry output only passes audio if panned LEFT. Makes no sense, either this is a design/layout flaw or something is wrong w/ the unit I have.

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Oh wait, I just read the above post more thoroughly. So DRY OUT pan swaps the Left and Right signals? What in heck would be the point of that? .. I will test that now.

Ahh.. yep, stated in the manual as well.

Wow, I would really love an explanation as to why it is set up this way. It seems counter-intuitive and that it would make far more sense for the DRY PAN to act either as a mix control between L & R inputs, OR perhaps even better, to route DRY OUT signal either the left or right output. Really there should be a DRY MIX and OUTPUT PAN on that fader. What is the intent of the DRY OUT pan swapping L & R?

Can anyone shed light on the following issue I have as a result? I plan to use the 45000 with two input sources, but only want to monitor one of them, and only intend to use one output (forced to configure this way due to this DRY PAN weirdness). So, I have two input sources, I pan all my loop playback channels hard right, send RIGHT OUTPUT to console, and turn the DRY OUT pan full CCW (LEFT) so I can monitor the RIGHT INPUT (yep), okay great, this works. Here’s the catch, now LEFT OUTPUT is receiving the DRY signal from the LEFT INPUT and although I don’t want to monitor that channel, my concern is that sending signal to this open output for hours on end is not good for the device. Will this be an issue? This thing is going into service on a heavy schedule of high profile shows, I can’t have problems with it.

The more time I spend with this the more I realize how fun but limited it is. 4/4 loops only for quantize is really rough and the dry routing thing as well as having both sources to tape no matter how things are panned etc (mono)..