I imagine this has been asked, but haven't been able to turn up an answer using the search tool...
I recently picked up an old Fostex FS-160 and just purchased a Behringer ADA8000 ADAT to add an extra 8 simultaneous record channels. All is well on that front, but I was really hoping to be able to run our vocal mics into the ADA8000, then run XLR cables from the ADA8000's line outs to the FOH mixer, but I can't figure out how to get the input signals routed to the line outs.
Behringer says there's no direct connection between the analog inputs and analog outputs, and suggested running the ADA8000's optical output back into its own optical input to use the unit as a simple preamp.
I gave that a shot as a troubleshooting step and sure enough, my ADA8000 inputs were correctly routed to the ADA8000 line outs, but I need to stick my FX-160 in that loop somewhere.
So... I ran the ADA8000's optical output into the FS-160's optical input, then took the FS-160's ADAT output back into the ADA8000's input, but still don't have any signal on the ADA8000's line outputs. The FS-160's digital output is set to ADAT (as is its digital input), but the FS-160 still isn't passing the ADAT's input through to its ADAT output.
Can anyone suggest anything else I might try? I'mi absolutely clueless about the wordclock and master/slave relationship between digital units, but might a misconfiguration with the wordclock/sync prevent the FS-160 from sending the ADAT input back through it's digial output, or is that just something that's not going to work?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I recently picked up an old Fostex FS-160 and just purchased a Behringer ADA8000 ADAT to add an extra 8 simultaneous record channels. All is well on that front, but I was really hoping to be able to run our vocal mics into the ADA8000, then run XLR cables from the ADA8000's line outs to the FOH mixer, but I can't figure out how to get the input signals routed to the line outs.
Behringer says there's no direct connection between the analog inputs and analog outputs, and suggested running the ADA8000's optical output back into its own optical input to use the unit as a simple preamp.
I gave that a shot as a troubleshooting step and sure enough, my ADA8000 inputs were correctly routed to the ADA8000 line outs, but I need to stick my FX-160 in that loop somewhere.
So... I ran the ADA8000's optical output into the FS-160's optical input, then took the FS-160's ADAT output back into the ADA8000's input, but still don't have any signal on the ADA8000's line outputs. The FS-160's digital output is set to ADAT (as is its digital input), but the FS-160 still isn't passing the ADAT's input through to its ADAT output.
Can anyone suggest anything else I might try? I'mi absolutely clueless about the wordclock and master/slave relationship between digital units, but might a misconfiguration with the wordclock/sync prevent the FS-160 from sending the ADAT input back through it's digial output, or is that just something that's not going to work?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.