papusnance
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Hi guys
So I borrowed this peavy mixer and hooking it up to my interface was a problem.
so , take a look at my interface's ass:
http://www.sector-audio.com/imagenes/productos/galeria/lexicon/alpha-/alpha--4.jpg
now, if your looking at her ass. You can see she has two a-holes called "Line in" (1 and 2)
in the Manual they call these inputs stereo line inputs..stereo
"Stereo Line Inputs for keyboards, drum machines or analog output of a CD/MP3 Player. Rf-filtered TRS active-balanced inputs accept either balanced or un-balanced signals."
So if they are stereo i guessed the following would work:
To go from the "Tape out " of the mixer with an RCA male to stereo 1/8 male cable , and put a 1/4 stereo adapter to it. so it would go into either of this inputs and the signal would be recorded stereo
By papush at 2012-05-07
By papush at 2012-05-18
But it didn't work, the signal was recorded in mono... changed the jack into the other input, still didn't work . I tested the mixer with headphones, its stereo functionality was working perfectly. Tested the cable , everything was in good condition.
Then i tried pluging an ipod ("or analog output of a CD/MP3 Player.") to these line inputs , and it still came on mono , you could hardly hear the voice but the keyboards sounded super clear and on top of everything... stuff like this. and no stereo details
is lexicon lying about the stereo inputs?
So the next thing i did was the following:
By papush at 2012-05-18
By papush at 2012-05-18
As you can see , i recorded from the main out. sending the left and right signals with two different cables. each one of the cables were plugged into one the line inputs.
Then i panned the signals of each channel (in my DAW) to left and right... it seems like a pretty unusual procedure in my opinion. Well, it did work... but im not sure about recording from the main out of a mixer, is it a diferent type of signal than the "tape out" signal ?
And I had to manually adjust the gain of each channel (L & R) so they would sound even... I prefer to leave that to the natural audio chain you would use in a normal situation (tape out to the RCA input of the interface, with an RCA cable ...and thats it)
What do you recommend? are my stereo line inputs not working as they should?, is lexicon lying ?
So I borrowed this peavy mixer and hooking it up to my interface was a problem.
so , take a look at my interface's ass:
http://www.sector-audio.com/imagenes/productos/galeria/lexicon/alpha-/alpha--4.jpg
now, if your looking at her ass. You can see she has two a-holes called "Line in" (1 and 2)
in the Manual they call these inputs stereo line inputs..stereo
"Stereo Line Inputs for keyboards, drum machines or analog output of a CD/MP3 Player. Rf-filtered TRS active-balanced inputs accept either balanced or un-balanced signals."
So if they are stereo i guessed the following would work:
To go from the "Tape out " of the mixer with an RCA male to stereo 1/8 male cable , and put a 1/4 stereo adapter to it. so it would go into either of this inputs and the signal would be recorded stereo
![snapshot3k.jpg](https://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3857/snapshot3k.jpg)
By papush at 2012-05-07
![snapshot7ag.jpg](https://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6708/snapshot7ag.jpg)
By papush at 2012-05-18
But it didn't work, the signal was recorded in mono... changed the jack into the other input, still didn't work . I tested the mixer with headphones, its stereo functionality was working perfectly. Tested the cable , everything was in good condition.
Then i tried pluging an ipod ("or analog output of a CD/MP3 Player.") to these line inputs , and it still came on mono , you could hardly hear the voice but the keyboards sounded super clear and on top of everything... stuff like this. and no stereo details
is lexicon lying about the stereo inputs?
So the next thing i did was the following:
![snapshot4w.jpg](https://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4025/snapshot4w.jpg)
By papush at 2012-05-18
![snapshot5en.jpg](https://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4996/snapshot5en.jpg)
By papush at 2012-05-18
As you can see , i recorded from the main out. sending the left and right signals with two different cables. each one of the cables were plugged into one the line inputs.
Then i panned the signals of each channel (in my DAW) to left and right... it seems like a pretty unusual procedure in my opinion. Well, it did work... but im not sure about recording from the main out of a mixer, is it a diferent type of signal than the "tape out" signal ?
And I had to manually adjust the gain of each channel (L & R) so they would sound even... I prefer to leave that to the natural audio chain you would use in a normal situation (tape out to the RCA input of the interface, with an RCA cable ...and thats it)
What do you recommend? are my stereo line inputs not working as they should?, is lexicon lying ?