monitors and multimix

[daveblue222]

hey. I have just got a set of edirol MA 15D self powered monitors for my Alesis Multimix (firewire) mixer. in the manual for the multimix is says to connect the monitors to Control room out. I cannot do this because the only ways of connecting the monitors is either by using an rca cable from the outs of my mixer, to the ins (rca of my monitors). this works fine, but however i can only get audio to play back when i have 2 TK to MIX button pushed down on my multimix(which causes a delay when i am playing in real time),which obviously causes problems if im overdubbing parts of songs. Having this button not pressed in i do not get the delay but i dont get any sound comming from the computer (e.g playedback cubase file,mp3), however i do get sound of the instruments being played straight through the mixer.

the monitors also came with an rca to mini headphone jack (obviously for plugging into sound card, interface) could i fit a large jack extention on this and plug it into the - control room out Left?.

i was also wondering where on the desk i should plug a headphone amp into, the phones socket???

i hope someone will be able to shed some light on this

cheers

-dave

[ndutle]

I would get adapters for the monitors, and plug them into the control room out. Then leave the "2-track to control room" button down, and run rca's from the 2track in directly to the two track out. This will get rid of your delay from the computer. If you do this, make sure you use the 2 track to control room and not the two track to mix, or you will end up with a loop that doesn't sound good.

As far as the headphone thing, I have no experience with them.

[whjr15]

Why would you even want the monitors on during tracking anyway?? All that will give you is a shitload of unwanted background music (noise/bleed) coming into your mic, which isnt very conducive to a decent sounding take.

There's nothing that any adapter will do for you in this situation, as this is just how the multimix is set up.


All you have to do is depress the 2tk to mix button when you want to record, and use headphones to monitor with. Just plug them directly into the phones jack on the mixer.

Then when it comes time for mixing, press the 2tk to mix button and listen through your monitors.