Help with setting up studio

[kurtz788]

First of all, I am exp. in the voice work....not very with the tech. (enough to be scarry..LOL)

I am setting a new studio in home and need some help with order of wiring and types of wires....

Right now I have:

Studio mic
dbx 286a preamp
Echo Mia Midi PCI card
M-Audio Studiophile AV 40 Powered Speakers
Behringer Xenyx 1204 Mixer

How do I wire the setup?? Kinda need a flow chart of setup to use eq the best and moniter also...

behringer.com/1204/index.cfm?lang=ENG

Thanks for helping ANOTHER newbie......
Marc
Montana, USA

 

[suprstar]

Plug the mic into the preamp input. Preamp output to the mixer input. Mixer output to your monitors. Put the midi card in your PC, and if you have any midi devices, you use that to control em. Plug the audio outputs of those midi devices into the inputs on your mixer. If you want to record, you'll need to make a connection from the mixer to your sound card.

 

[eyema_believer]

Plug the mic into the preamp input. Preamp output to the mixer input. Mixer output to your monitors. Put the midi card in your PC, and if you have any midi devices, you use that to control em. Plug the audio outputs of those midi devices into the inputs on your mixer. If you want to record, you'll need to make a connection from the mixer to your sound card.

Yep. Well said.

Peace!

~Shawn

 

[kurtz788]

Big thanks to the team !!

May sound basic to some.....but very helpful for a rookie. I am honored to have access to your help.
This was my first time getting help in a forum. Maybe next week I can have my wife help me with directions when I'm driving...LOL (second thought thats way to soon for that, only been married 20 years.....




Marc
Montana, USA

 

[MOFO Pro]

1. Control Room Out on Mixer to your monitors
2. Main Outs on mixer to balanced inputs on Echo Mia Midi PCI

 

[Whale Bone]

I'd run the Alt 3-4 out to the soundcard's input (the MIA) so you can run the output of the MIA to the mixer and be able to hear mixes without creating a feedback loop. And as suggested above, I'd connect the monitors to the control out.

You just have to make sure you don't ever send the output of the soundcard to the ALT 3-4 buss (unless you've disabled direct monitoring on the soundcard and are not feeding the input back to the output via recording software)

You also might want to patch the output of the dbx preamp directly to the soundcard, bypassing the mixer. It depends what your source is and what sound you want.

 

[kurtz788]

voice over

I will be doing voice over work.....but will also get into some production, adding pre-recorded music and sfx. want the ability to produce :30, :60 etc, from home. and save on PC to upload, etc....

Thanks TEAM !!!

Marc
Montana, USA