Speedy VonTrapp
New member
I really need some help here from you guys. I’m hopefully posting this in the correct forums. If someone thinks that it will work better in a different forum, please let me know, and I’ll post it there, instead.
My band made a happy upgrade this past weekend, and bought a Delta 1010. Finally being able to use all of our pieces together, we couldn’t wait to get it up and running.
Here is what we have running:
Windows XP
2.4Ghz (I think) Intel
Sonar 4
M-Audio Delta 1010
Mackie 1642 VLZ Pro
Here is what we are doing.
Running the board as such:
1-Kick
2-Snare
3-L-OH
4-R-OH
5-Bass
6-Guit 1
7-Guit 2
8-Vox
Direct outs running into the 1010
The comp sees the signals just fine, records just fine.
Sonar inputs for each track set up properly, I believe. We see everything the way that it should be.
Output wise, we are having an issue. What we hear is super quiet. Much more quiet than what we should be hearing. We’re getting great levels, but the output just doesn’t seem to be functioning properly.
What I am doing, is assigning each track output to Master. Then the master to the Delta’s 1/2 outs. Just so that I can control the volume with the one master control.
Is this ok?
The other thing, is that we were getting quiet results for a while and switched the buttons on the 2 outputs on the Delta, (1 and 2.) Once I did this, it worked well, it seemed. But later, on it didn’t seem to keep up again.
Considering our gear list, what should each be set to? +4, or –10? I am thinking that this might be part of the problem, also.
Outputs 1/2 are running to a pair of powered monitors. I apologize for not knowing the make/model. I have to ask about those.
Hopefully there is enough info here for you to help us out with. While I realize that we’ll need to do some limiting, etc, after the fact to help bring up some levels later, something still is just wrong. The monitors are turned up quite a bit, and we still hear barely anything. We do hear it, but just barely. The meters peak around 0db, + or – just a bit. We’re just dialing our levels in right now, and this particular setup is just for our rehearsal recordings. We’re wanting to do something more serious track by track, but want to have it all functioning before we dive into that.
To rule out the monitors, I also routed the outputs to my headphone amp, (Presonus 4 output) and used that to listen. Still, barely there, turned up almost full.
Also, during a recording, I tried to monitor in the phones, but could not. I’m not sure what sort of setting needs to be on to do this. I feel like a noob here. *sigh* We have to be able to monitor during a recording…I have been using Sonar just as a dump up to this point, because I didn’t have a sound card that could work with the system right. So, I haven’t done it this way yet, and am not sure how to make everything happen.
Please help if you can.
Thanks,
Speedy
My band made a happy upgrade this past weekend, and bought a Delta 1010. Finally being able to use all of our pieces together, we couldn’t wait to get it up and running.
Here is what we have running:
Windows XP
2.4Ghz (I think) Intel
Sonar 4
M-Audio Delta 1010
Mackie 1642 VLZ Pro
Here is what we are doing.
Running the board as such:
1-Kick
2-Snare
3-L-OH
4-R-OH
5-Bass
6-Guit 1
7-Guit 2
8-Vox
Direct outs running into the 1010
The comp sees the signals just fine, records just fine.
Sonar inputs for each track set up properly, I believe. We see everything the way that it should be.
Output wise, we are having an issue. What we hear is super quiet. Much more quiet than what we should be hearing. We’re getting great levels, but the output just doesn’t seem to be functioning properly.
What I am doing, is assigning each track output to Master. Then the master to the Delta’s 1/2 outs. Just so that I can control the volume with the one master control.
Is this ok?
The other thing, is that we were getting quiet results for a while and switched the buttons on the 2 outputs on the Delta, (1 and 2.) Once I did this, it worked well, it seemed. But later, on it didn’t seem to keep up again.
Considering our gear list, what should each be set to? +4, or –10? I am thinking that this might be part of the problem, also.
Outputs 1/2 are running to a pair of powered monitors. I apologize for not knowing the make/model. I have to ask about those.
Hopefully there is enough info here for you to help us out with. While I realize that we’ll need to do some limiting, etc, after the fact to help bring up some levels later, something still is just wrong. The monitors are turned up quite a bit, and we still hear barely anything. We do hear it, but just barely. The meters peak around 0db, + or – just a bit. We’re just dialing our levels in right now, and this particular setup is just for our rehearsal recordings. We’re wanting to do something more serious track by track, but want to have it all functioning before we dive into that.
To rule out the monitors, I also routed the outputs to my headphone amp, (Presonus 4 output) and used that to listen. Still, barely there, turned up almost full.
Also, during a recording, I tried to monitor in the phones, but could not. I’m not sure what sort of setting needs to be on to do this. I feel like a noob here. *sigh* We have to be able to monitor during a recording…I have been using Sonar just as a dump up to this point, because I didn’t have a sound card that could work with the system right. So, I haven’t done it this way yet, and am not sure how to make everything happen.
Please help if you can.
Thanks,
Speedy