help with patch bay

[keepitbasic]

What am I doing wrong?

I am trying to patch protools to a Midas mixer and connect a mic and a cd player from the patch bay to the mixer. Here is what I had did so far:

-I connected a male xlr connector to protools 1 input and connected the other end to group 1 bus on the mixer.

-Next, I connected 4 female connectors to protools out and the other end to the first 4 line channels of the mixer.

-Then I connect 2 female connectors to the CD player and the other ends go to the line channels 5 and 6 on the mixer.

- Now I connect a male connector to the protools input 2 and connect the other end to channel 3 mic on the mixer.

- Now I adjust raise the fader on channel 1 to 0 and pan to the left. I push 1-2 in and turn up the gain. I also do this same process for channel 2.

- Last thing I did was adjusted the I/O to track 1 in protools to 1/5. I adjust the gain and fader on channels 5 and 6

I have the CD player playing, and I see that it is giving a signal to the track when I click record, but I am not getting any sound. I am using headphones that are plugged into the Midas mixer.

Can anyone point me into the right direction to make the proper connections? I am just trying to record some vocals, and add some music, sound effects on two other tracks.

Here is a diagram of the patch bay and pic of the top of the midas (this is my school setup I am using to work on):
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/thabassment1/detail?.dir=2515scd&.dnm=9724scd.jpg&.src=ph

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/thabassment1/detail?.dir=2515scd&.dnm=a8c6scd.jpg&.src=ph

 

[notbradsohner]

is your patchbay normalled, half normalled, paralell?

 

[keepitbasic]

The patch bay is normalled.

 

[keepitbasic]

bump! bump! bump!

 

[ssscientist]

If your intention is to route something thru the Midas mixer you need to wire the inputs to a patch bay. If your intention is to get something back out of the Midas mixer, you need to wire the outputs to a patch bay.

The diagram shows both protools inputs and outputs but no mixer inputs or outputs. You need to add a patchbay (or rewire the current one) to add the mixer inputs and, depending on how many tracks at a time you need to go into protools, individual channel outputs or just the group outputs.

If you opt for group outputs into protools that would probably make sense because you could control the routing from the mixer bussing --- stereo group one for drums, stereo group two for bass, stereo group three for synths or guitars, etc.