All these tubes and wires!!! Help!!!!

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impressed with my songwriting, someone gave me a 7 channel mixer, synthesizer and some old red guitar that used to belong to some Winger bandmember.

I've now added to that mess 3 Sennheiser mics, some cables and a converter cable to run all the noise into my hard drive.

Can someone give me a clue as to how I do that? I ran the synth to the 1st channel of the mixer and the guy at the store gave me the cables for the right and left stereo output on the mixer but its a Peavey 701R and there are no right and left or maybe its my other left........

I can't do more than tie bows with this cable. I would appreciate any samaritan with even the crudest schematic for me to work from. Thanks for your generosity.
 
Yo Heidi of the famous Movie:]

One day I came home from work and got my feet tangled in the mass of cables that ran hither, thither, and yon in my old apartment; thus, that was the moment I decided to buy a condo and devote one full room to my studio; it's better now but, oh, those cables -- hanging everywhere and going everywhere.

Here is what I can say that might help you.

If you plug in a cable to a synth, in my case a Yamaha, that cable is now ready to send sound somewhere; thus, the other end of the cable FROM the OUT of the SYNTH, needs to plug into an IN of something.

I often run my synth IN to a mic preamp; the preamp has OUTS, so what goes IN must come OUT and go into something else, like my 8 track recorder. When I'm all done with the tune, there are two stereo RCA OUTS which go IN to my mix down unit -- at this moment, that is a tape deck.

I guess the story of this post is WHAT GOES FROM an instrument which is electronic or otherwise, like a mic, must GO IN to something.

This process goes on until the recording is done. Often I run a CD backing track into my 8 track recorder. Then, I run the MIC into the mic pre which then is sent OUT of the mic pre to the recorder's IN plug.


If this sounds as sticky as doing your income tax, well it really isn't. Hang in there.


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