Behringer's- 2496 connection problem

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I am having serious problems connecting my Behringer MX2004A mixing desk with the Audiophile 2496 and the Behringer Ultra Curve Pro DSP8024.
If any one can help, I guarantee an afterlife for them.
Thank you for your effort.
 
Well, just connect them!

Sorry, but you need to be specific about the problem.

How much do you know about this stuff?

What are you trying to achieve?

What other equipment are you using?
 
I'm new to this stuff but inherited all the equipment.
Equipment list :
Warrior kt600 amp*
Behringer MX2004A Mixer*
Sony DTC 55-ES DAT
Behringer Ultra Curve Pro DSP8024 equalizer *
Yamaha synth
Audiophile 2496 sound card.*
I'm struggling to work out which outputs go to which inputs and what cables I need for which I/O.
I never saw how he rigged it up!
 
Items marked with an * are the ones I don't know how to connect.
 
What's your computer & recording software?

What do you want to accomplish? Recording a band?
Acoustic? Techno? Metal? Punk? Rap? Polka? Elevator Musak? Gregorian Chants?

Anyway- I don't see any Monitors listed, so I don't see how you can use the Warrior Amp.

As to the rest, lots of options! But that's why I asked what you are trying to do.
For one thing, hook up the Mixer's tape OUTS (rca) to the 2496's Line In (rca) using a standard Male to male stereo RCA cable. That's a start anyway.

Also don't know what you need the EQ for either.
 
The aim will be to produce dance music.
I have a PC with 512 RAM, windows XP and cubase VST 5.1.
The monitors are Alesis monitor one mk2's.
Am I correct in assuming that the sp/dif cables from the DAT machine to the sound card are the only connections I need to go from the Dat machine and no connections need to go to the mixing desk.
Thank you.
 
zol said:
Am I correct in assuming that the sp/dif cables from the DAT machine to the sound card are the only connections I need to go from the Dat machine and no connections need to go to the mixing desk.
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Yes, this will work, but two things:
1. Get high quality coaxial spdif cables, not just any old rca cable you have lying around.
2. You will only be able to record to the DAT thru the computer. Your mixers outs will go to the analog in's of the 2496, and then from there you can route inside the computer back out to the DAT if you want to record live to DAT.

You probably won't be using the DAT very much. You can more easily put everything you do to CD for mastering, Back-up, etc. from inside the computer. Wavelabs (did you get that with Cubase?) has some great mastering abilities.

Do you use loops?
 
The only software apart from cubase I have is Rebirth RB-338 and Logic Delta which came with the sound card.
I connected the RCA from the mixer to the card and when I have opened the rewire channels in cubase the signal is working there and on the mixer, but no sound is coming from the amp and monitors.
I have the same problem with the synth which also for some reason stopped registering a MIDI signal on the input of the transport bar in cubase. It did work and then just stopped.
I cannot find a link for the amp that you could look at, but it has two 1/4" input connectors A + B, two RCA input connectors and two 1/4" outputs.
 
OK!! I'm beginning to see the Big Picture now.:)

You will need to be able to monitor your mixes, so you need to connect the sound-card output to your mixer. I'd suggest the analog outs of the 2496 (RCA) to the Stereo 9-10 input (rca to 1/4" adapter needed here x2).

Then you should change the connecting to the 2496's inputs from the mixer's tape outs to the mixer's inserts (channels 1-2 are fine. Only push the plug in to the first click, or it won't work) using the same kind of connections you used for the 2496's outs. This will prevent feedback looping, and allow you to monitor what you have already recorded (thru 9-10 of the mixer) as well as what you are recording live (mic, keyboard, etc.).

You will plug anything you want to record into inputs 1 or 2.

Then to get the sound to come out the Monitor One's you will connect the Control Room outs to the inputs of the Warrior Amp. Then the outputs of the amp go to the monitors (Left & Right).
I don't know what the inputs are on the Monitors, you may need to put bare wires to binding post connectors. You may have to buy a 10-15 foot 1/4" to 1/4" speaker wire and cut it in the middle to achieve this.

I know little about midi, unless you do I would just record the audio of the keyboard into the computer, not the midi. This will be less flexible at mixdown time, but will be easier to get things going initially (I would think!)

There will be more questions once you do all this, but this should get you started.

Well I hope this has been helpful, as I am exhausted now and must take a nap!:o :p


Happy recording!!
 
BTW, I've got the whole afterlife thing covered already, but thanks anyway.

;)
 
Is it that I'm to stupid for this?
I still cannot get the sound out of my monitors.
I have connected the mixers cntrl room outs(L+R) to the amps inputs(A+B)respectively. The RCA inputs(ONE RED, ONE WHITE) have nothing connected to them!
The speaker cable I have is a cordial CLS440 (4*4mm squared).
I have connected one monitors red binding connector(using two of the speaker wires) to the red binding output of the amp.
Using the other two of the speaker wires I have done the same but to the black binding connectors.
I have repeated the above with the other monitor and connected them to the other red and black binding outputs of the amp.
The A+B outputs(1/4") either side of the binding outputs on the amp have not been used.
Is this correct?
 
zol said:
Is it that I'm to stupid for this?
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No


I still cannot get the sound out of my monitors.
I have connected the mixers cntrl room outs(L+R) to the amps inputs(A+B)respectively. The RCA inputs(ONE RED, ONE WHITE) have nothing connected to them!
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This shouldn't be a problem, I think those are just more connection alternatives, though you may want to check if there is a selector switch to choose which input the amp "sees".

The speaker cable I have is a cordial CLS440 (4*4mm squared).
I have connected one monitors red binding connector(using two of the speaker wires) to the red binding output of the amp.
Using the other two of the speaker wires I have done the same but to the black binding connectors.
I have repeated the above with the other monitor and connected them to the other red and black binding outputs of the amp.
The A+B outputs(1/4") either side of the binding outputs on the amp have not been used.
Is this correct?
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Hard to say for sure, although it sounds like it would work. That cable has four conductors? Must be for Bi-Amped set up. You shouldn't need to use two wires to each post, just one. Try changing that, because with four wires you are twice as likely to cross them. And make sure you can hook up both sides exactly the same or your speakers will be out of phase(bad thing!).

You also need to verify that you have signal on the board. Hook up some headphones to the headphone jack, and check the meters. Plug in a CD player or Mic or other source to the Mixer, and send it out the Control room outs. Take care to bring up the amps inputs slowly, in fact, start out with them about a quarter of the way turned up, and don't adjust again until you have sound coming out!

It will pay off for you to spend a lot of time on this BBS reading threads that pertain to all the elements of what you are doing. Experimentation is that best teacher though.
 
Thank you again for your time and effort.
The audio is coming out of the headphones, but still not from the amp.
I have attached only one wire to each binding connector and sadly still no joy.
The amp and the monitors are brand new.
I'm using unbalanced 1/4"(X2) to go from the control outs to amp input A+B.
The only switch on the back of the amp is ground+lift.
I really can't think what else it could be!
 
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