Help me connect my Mackie 1402

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I'm purchasing the Mackie VLM 1402 This coming weekend and I downloaded the manual in advance to get a head start.

There hook up diagrams don't quite match what I'll be doing and I'm so new at this I'm little confussed and need advice from the experts out there.

I have a Darla24 Sound card with 2 inputs and 8 outs.

a Roland midi board in my computer with a midi keybd plugged into the roland board.

A condenser and dynamic mic (I understand what to do here)

The final mix will go to my computers hard drive.

That's it. 2 mics, 1 audio in and 1 midi in and nothing else at this time.

Here's the question: whats the best way and where to connect the sound card and roland board ins and outs to the mackie?
and when I'm recording individual audio tracks, how do I prevent these tracks from being rerecorded on new tracks that I'm recording. Is that what the solo switch is for?

Any other advice you can give regarding my set up is greatly welcomed.

I'll be so happy when I get good enough at this stuff to stop asking These elementary questions.

Thanks for any help!
 
Darla - run outputs 1 and 2 into channel 7/8 on the 1402. This will be your main stereo playback for monitoring the mix.

For microphones use channels 1 and 2. Use 1/4" cables from the insert on channels 1 and 2, to inputs 1 and 2 of the Darla.

An alternate way that may reduce the amount of re-patching. You could run 1/4" cables from the ALT3/4 outputs on the mackie into inputs 1 and 2 on the Darla. Plug your mic's into input 1 and 2 on the mackie. Plug the outputs from the roland card into inputs 3 and 4 on the mackie. Leave the Darla outputs 1 and 2 into channels 7/8 for playback.

Any of the channels 1 - 4 can be sent to Darla inputs 1 and 2 by using the mute button on the mackie, this sends it out of the alt 3/4 outputs.

Many ways to accomplish the same thing.
 
Thanks Emeric, Sounds like you own a Mackie mixer and know what your talking about.

But what does Useing 1/4" cables from the insert on channels 1 and 2, to inputs 1 and 2 of the Darla do for me, are they really needed?

Thanks again!
 
No, you don't have to use the inserts, you can use the ALT 3/4 since you only have 2 inputs. For recording drums I use the inserts as an easy way to output 6 mic's into my sound card.
 
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