Hooking up a Behringer SX3040

[TascamJimi]

Hey there again folks... time for another silly question. I have here a borrowed Behringer SX3040 to play with for a week..... Being 58 I record totally old school, but with a digital Tascam DP-02. By ' old school' I just mean I use the recorder just like my old Tascam 488 II tape recorder. What I'd like to do is try running a completed mix through this unit. I'm thinking I need to upload into Audacity ( or something similar ) to boost the low levels I recorded at ( the DP-02's digital meters stink ) . At some point I will also use Audacity to put 2 seconds of silence before and after each song. My stupid question is, how do I hook this thing up ?? The DP-02 has RCA outs and effects send and return. It has a digital out and USB, but being the Behringer doesn't utilize those, the point is moot. Logic tells me to run a dual RCA > 1/4 inch cable out of the Tascam into the Behringer, but how do I make the return trip ?? Do I come back into the effects return and adjust each track ? My goal was to run the entire mix through. I don't have an audio interface or anything like that. Again, I'm 58 and recording like it's 1978 !!!
Any help you folks can provide is much appreciated. Again, I learn something from this site every single visit ! I gave up recording 20 years ago to raise a family. Now i'm getting some time back and am enjoying getting back into it !! Having my Son into it is the icing on the cake !!!! Sorry to be so long winded, but I figure too much information is better than not enough !!! :O)
Jim

 

[DM60]

Well, let me say this. If I understand what you want to do (record an old analog signal). In order to use this, you need to run the source and use this as a post processor for the final analog signal to the computer. Now, if I am missing something, and could be since I didn't do any research, you can do the processing in the box aka analog in, processing, digital out (Behringer is processing internally and providing the result set as a finalized file).

I assume it is pure analog, so you have to play source through the Behringer to output the analog signal to a computer. Now that is old school in a new way.

Let me know if I am off.

 

[ecc83]

Unless I am T as S and missing something as well I don't see a problem? The DP02 has send and return jacks. The SX3040 has in
put and output jacks. You just need two TS cables AFAICS? Play the track out of the DP, send to Behrry, mangle. Return to another track on the DP...Bob;s yer whatsit?

But DO get yourself a modest interface! It does not seem as though the Tascam is such, just allows audio and MIDI 'dumps'?

Dave.

 

[Papanate]

Hey there again folks... time for another silly question. I have here a borrowed Behringer SX3040 to play with for a week..... Being 58 I record totally old school, but with a digital Tascam DP-02. By ' old school' I just mean I use the recorder just like my old Tascam 488 II tape recorder. What I'd like to do is try running a completed mix through this unit. I'm thinking I need to upload into Audacity ( or something similar ) to boost the low levels I recorded at ( the DP-02's digital meters stink ) . At some point I will also use Audacity to put 2 seconds of silence before and after each song. My stupid question is, how do I hook this thing up ?? The DP-02 has RCA outs and effects send and return. It has a digital out and USB, but being the Behringer doesn't utilize those, the point is moot. Logic tells me to run a dual RCA > 1/4 inch cable out of the Tascam into the Behringer, but how do I make the return trip ?? Do I come back into the effects return and adjust each track ? My goal was to run the entire mix through. I don't have an audio interface or anything like that. Again, I'm 58 and recording like it's 1978 !!!
Any help you folks can provide is much appreciated. Again, I learn something from this site every single visit ! I gave up recording 20 years ago to raise a family. Now i'm getting some time back and am enjoying getting back into it !! Having my Son into it is the icing on the cake !!!! Sorry to be so long winded, but I figure too much information is better than not enough !!! :O)
Jim

I think you can dump the tracks via USB to Audacity - I would forgo using the Behringer SX3040 and get the Slate Digital Fresh Air Exciter - it’s free and it’s a plugin which you can use in Audacity - might not be old school analog - but it will do the job quite well - and you could bump the bass frequencies before you applied the exciter - if you wanted to use your Tascam DP-02 - as @ecc83 said plug the SX3040 via the Send and then return it Left and Right - that would put the exciter on the whole mix -

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