Delta 66 and Behringer ub2442fx pro Mixer (Need help hooking them up)

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I'm currently having some difficulties hooking up my Delta 66 and Behringer ub2442fx pro mixing console. I'm using Cool Edit Pro, 1.2 gig processor, almost a gig of ram and plenty of harddrive space.

The sub outputs are working fine to the computer. I'm successfully recording 4 individual feeds from the mixer using the sub outs (4 sub outs to the 4 inputs of the Delta 66). My problem seems to be the monitoring playback of these 4 feeds. I have the 4 outputs of the Delta 66 going to empty tracks 5-8 of the mixer. I'm able to hear the tracks through my headphones, but I can't seem to seperate them on the mixer. The computer is showing that the 4 tracks are seperate, but the mixer seems to be combining them somehow (ex. track 5 wil have tracks 1 and 2 combined together). Perhaps I'm using the wrong insert points back into the mixer?

I should also state that on the software that I'm using (Cool Edit) I've flagged that the recording input track 1 is set to 1/2 left only, track 2 set to 1/2 right only etc. up to track 4 and the outputs have similarily been flagged for track 1 up to track 4. Because I'm having this problem, I'm currently not able to do proper multi track recording.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated on this new mixer.
Thanks.
 
I have this mixer, my guess: It's not the mixer that is the problem.

In cool edit try panning the tracks hard left and right: track 1 hard left, track 2 hard right, 3 hard left, 4 hard right. Windows groups sound devices as stereo pairs so you have to do some panning to seperate the cool edit tracks.

An easy way to check: Just plug one of the Delta's outputs into the mixer, if you can still hear tracks 1 and 2 then you haven't got things set up right in Cool Edit, and need to do the panning I said above. It's pretty hard to mess things up in the mixer, just have each output going into a line in plug on each of the channel strips of the mixer.
 
I would do the panning that michael said but make sure to do it in your delta 66's control panel, not in cool edit. I had the same issues with my terratec ews88/mt and I panned the channels left and right accordingly in my control pannel and it fixed it right up.
 
This is my problem as well, but it isn't fixed - Drew99, how did it work for you?
 
Drew99, I don't know about CoolEdit, but in Sonar, each track has a setting for the output. To do what you want to do, I would have to assign each track to its corresponding output on the Delta. (The default setting is to send ALL the tracks to the master fader in Sonar)

You CAN'T do this in the Delta control panel. The control panel is completely unaware of the settings for each track in CoolEdit or what ever audio software you use.

Does this sound like something you can do in CoolEdit? What version do you have?
 
I just re-read the original post. It sounds like you are doing everything correctly on the computer. To double-check, you can open up your delta control panel and watch the output meters while you are playing the song in CoolEdit. Make sure the meters for all 4 outputs are moving.

You mentioned using insert points on your mixer. Don't you want to use the Line Inputs for channels 5-8? Also, is there any specific reason you are using the sub outputs instead of the direct outs?
 
It was the output panning on cool edit 2.0 that was the problem. For some reason I was thinking that the input "left only", "right only" options would also affect the output. I was wrong... the outputs had to be manually panned left and right on cool edit as well (no automatic left-only or right-only option available).

A question was posed: "why I don't use the direct outs instead of the sub outs?" From my readings of this site and the owner's manual, my understanding is that the sub outs give the 4 independant channels to the soundcard, whereas the direct outs would only give 2 independant channels. Won't the use of the direct outs with the soundcard also pose possible feedback problems as well?

To clarify, for the insert points on the mixer, I am using the line inputs for channels 5-8. Therefore I am now able to mix the 4 channels on the mixer (outputs from the soundcard) - which is absolulely great!

Thanks for your feedback - I'm a newbie at this, and appreciate the help.
 
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