Hooking mixer to soundcard

[Necromaniac]

I have a Berhinger Eurorack MX 1604A Mixer and a Echo Mia sound card. How do I go about connecting the two. I've obviously read the manuals but none of it makes sense to me. Do I need any odd cables for the job? Do I have the wrong kinda mixer? Any help greatly appriciated.

 

[DAFFYDRUNK]

Good quesiton. Sorry, I dunno but TTT so someone might answer it. Here's what I can offer based entirely on research. ( giving you confidence eh? )
Since the Mia has balanced TRS ins and outs, I think you think you could use an pair of XLR to 1/4"TRS cables to go to the sound card from the main out. Assuming there's a balanced stereo input (or a couple free TRS balanced input channels) on the mixer, you could use a pair of 1/4" TRS to 1/4" TRS to go from the sound card to the mixer. Then use a pair of regular 1/4" to RCA or regular 1/4" to 1/4" for the output to your speakers depending on what kinda monitor amp/stereo you're hooking it up to. I'd assume you'd use the CTRL (which I think are both unbalanced?) to output to a stereo or monitor setup. Then I'd imagine you select the mixer inputs from the sound card to only output to the ctrl. Outputting to the monitor amp is where I'm totally clueles. I just figure that you have to have it output on a separate bus to your monitors somehow or you'll get a healthy feedback loop the first time you try it out, and figure both balanced and unbalanced main outs output the same thing no matter what.
Other than that use balanced where possible and don't buy super cheap cable....

 

[rickv]

what about using strip inserts to record?There must be a way to wire say 6 strips directly into a Delta 1010 at the same time. I have been thinging abought doing this myself.

thoughts? I know the inserts are unbalnced and carry both the send and return signals on them. This makes me a bit donfused as far as wiring and cables go.

 

[DAFFYDRUNK]

The inserts use a TRS jack and you get an insert cable that has (1) 1/4" TRS on one end and (2) regular 1/4" on the other. I used to use these adaptors form Radio Shack that were TRS on one end and had L/R RCA connectors on the other. I think they were supposed to be for hooking a stereo headphone jack to a tape/aux input on a tape deck or stereo.. Then I put a 1/4" female adaptor on the end of the RCA connector and plugged a male to male 1/4" guitar cable in that.... Total rig job, and probably not very smart for serious recording but it worked. It was a long time ago and didin't know you actually buy purpose built insert cables. Insert is after mic pre but dunno where in the chain. Don't have a mixer with an insert to try it on, and the IRS is taking what little mixer money I had Maybe different on different boards? An insert would probably work as a line level out to a sound card, just not sure how good or if you could use the fader, EQ, ect...