I need serius CEP help!

[Jakearabble]

Hey, I will give you the skinny first. I am only 16 and just started messing around with CEP and recording about a year or two ago. I Have a Mackie 12-02 mixer running into a Delta 66, that runs into a VPR Matrix computer equipped with CEP of course. Almost everything i record sounds weak and most of it distorted. I have been running guitar, bass, vocals, and drums, usually through my little guitar and bass amp, before going into the mackie. I dont know much about impedence, but that may have something to do with it. The biggest problem i have had is my guitar/keyboard/vocals distorting when recorded. The levels/gain are not up too much at all. Any sin im committing? Please Help. Thanks alot.
-Jakearabble

[demensia]

Are you getting a hot signal in the Delta Mixer?
Maybe you have the signal comming in too hot and your monitoring volume down too low so all you get is quiet distortion.

.. just an idea.

[Jakearabble]

thanks, that never occured to me, il check on that
-Jake

[Jakearabble]

ok, you are exactly right, it is comin in WAY to hot from the mixer to the delta mixer, but i dont know how to fix it, the volume on the individaul tracks are already all the way down. What am i doing wrong...thanks.
-Jake

[demensia]

Open up your delta mixer.
You want to get the signal comming in to just bearly peak in the red. Adjust the H/W 1/2 (or 3/4) accordingly.

Then all you need to do is set the master volume to a comfortable level for you... But I learned in previous posts here that you want to mix somewhere around 85db.

This is asuming that you have your delta mixer set up the way it says in the manual.. I can tell you how mine is set up.. I dont know if it will work for you.

Under the Patchbay/Router tab I have H/W Out 1/2 set to Monitor Mixer and H/W Out 3/4 set to WavOut 3/4 (which goes to my mixer for headphone monitoring)

Under hardware settings
Codec Sample Rate 44,100, reset when idle checked.
Multi-Track Driver Devices is set to Single in Sync
Latency is at 384
All the variable signal levels are at +4


I dont know what any of this means really, all I know is that set up like this, my shit works.

Good Luck.
-demensia.

[Strryder]

to control the output level from your 1202, just have the Delta Panel open, and watch the level there as you turn up the trim control on the 1202 channel that your using.

Just to check, you are going out of the 1202's insert jacks (1/2 way plugged) into the Delta's inputs, right?

[Jakearabble]

hey thanks, i think i got it fixed. My problem was that, i dont think i realized that the trim on the track controlled the level though the delta. I thought it had to do with the gain at the bottom, which now seems a little rediculous. Thanks again, that helped alot.
-Jake
P.S. Yes i am going out of the instert(1/2) jacks, thanks, most likely more questions will come soon.