How do folks have their monitors hooked up?

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Was that really Ed?

I don't have much gear, no headphone amp or anything, and I connect my 'monitors' and headphones etc through a little mixer connected to my soundcard output. The mixer in question is a Yamaha MG10/2 ... but we won't talk about that here!;)
 
Okay! So what I see is that most people (with the exception of one person) are going through their soundcard to get their input into their monitors.

Is it easier to control or are there reasons for connecting your monitors to your soundcard, instead of your mixer directly. Why aren't monitors connected directly into the Control Room output of your mixer?


I don't know but it seems that the signal makes one big loop. From your MIC through your mixer into a soundcard back out through the output of the soundcard through some other device (or two) and into the monitors.

I would have thought that going from your MIC through your mixer out to the monitors would be a much better signal. So I'm a little confused why is everyone going through all of those electronic devices?
 
soundcard > mixer> monitor. I have multiple soundcards and multiple monitors the mixer lets me choose what goes where.
 
noisedude said:
Was that really Ed?
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Yes - and I honestly have no idea why he's acting like such a dumb fuck, lately (here and on other sites)... what a waste, considering his engineering abilities.......
 
Dracon said:
I would have thought that going from your MIC through your mixer out to the monitors would be a much better signal. So I'm a little confused why is everyone going through all of those electronic devices?
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You are talking about monitoring during tracking? Most of the time, people use headphones for that. Many people will set up headphone monitors through a mixer rather than from a soundcard output, due to latency. I am probably one of the few exceptions as I still use DSP cards, so I don't suffer from latency and can monitor off the soundcard--technically though I use external converters.
 
Never mind! I figured it out when I was on the throne.
I was thinking of monitoring while recording, but going through the mixer without first going through the soundcard would not work during playback.

Sorry for the stupid question. :rolleyes:
 
The toilet is one of my most effective creative outlets ;) It's the one place I can multi-task, doing one think whilst most definitely thinking about something else!!

Bear - I got the impression Ed was a serious engineer, one of the proper pros on here. But on a scale that goes from Harvey to you, with someone like Han roughly in the middle, he was about 20xBear at the Bear's most awkward!!!
 
noisedude said:
Bear - I got the impression Ed was a serious engineer, one of the proper pros on here.
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He is - was... I assume he still has his considerable skills, but his character sure has changed lately - and not for the better... like I said, what a waste!


noisedude said:
But on a scale that goes from Harvey to you, with someone like Han roughly in the middle, he was about 20xBear at the Bear's most awkward!!!
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:confused: Sorry ND - didn't quite catch the math there -- what do you mean?
 
uhhh... back to the central station

are the converters in the central station an upgrade from the converters in a MOTU 828MKII? I'm asking because i want one because it'd be nice to have monitoring that simple and if those couple converters were better it'd put it over the edge and i'd get it to have upgraded signal for all my tracking besides drums (where i don't need so many inputs at one time).

thanks,
T
 
mshilarious said:
Most of the time, people use headphones for that. Many people will set up headphone monitors through a mixer rather than from a soundcard output, due to latency.
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So the headphones are used during recording but not during playback?
I was told not to use headphones for mixing, but I guess the mixing is done after the session is recorded.

Since I'm recording only one vocal, and adding the music later, it would not be that important to use the monitors during the recording.
 
Farview said:
How on earth are you going to do that?
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Uhmmm!!!????
If you are asking how am I going to mix the vocals with some music.
I'm going to open my vocal *.wav file and then import my music *.wav file.

I'll listen to it before I export it to *.wav to ensure that the volume on the vocals or the music doesn't drown the other out. I'll also add or remove silence at the back, end or middle to ensure proper placement of the music, and then export everything to a *wav file.

However, if you are thinking of me having a whole band, and that I'm somehow isolating the singer and asking how am I doing that. Well, I'm not doing that at all.

The music is already mixed down, and all it needs it's the vocals added to it. Does that explain what you were asking? 'cause if not, I have no idea what you are asking then.
 
Blue Bear Sound said:
:confused: Sorry ND - didn't quite catch the math there -- what do you mean?
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It was a scale from the most warm and patient of the pros on here ... to the more, shall we say, tempestuous ones? So Harvey at one extreme, the Big Scary Bear at the other ... and Ed miles off the end, being an asshole for no good reason!

Make any sense you??? :(
 
noisedude said:
It was a scale from the most warm and patient of the pros on here ... to the more, shall we say, tempestuous ones? So Harvey at one extreme, the Big Scary Bear at the other ... and Ed miles off the end, being an asshole for no good reason!

Make any sense you??? :(
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Ah - I get it now...!

Sorry - I'm overdue for hibernation and it's making me dopey! ;) :D
 
Dracon said:
Uhmmm!!!????
If you are asking how am I going to mix the vocals with some music.
I'm going to open my vocal *.wav file and then import my music *.wav file.

I'll listen to it before I export it to *.wav to ensure that the volume on the vocals or the music doesn't drown the other out. I'll also add or remove silence at the back, end or middle to ensure proper placement of the music, and then export everything to a *wav file.

However, if you are thinking of me having a whole band, and that I'm somehow isolating the singer and asking how am I doing that. Well, I'm not doing that at all.

The music is already mixed down, and all it needs it's the vocals added to it. Does that explain what you were asking? 'cause if not, I have no idea what you are asking then.
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How are you going to sing in time and in tune to music that you are not listening to?
 
I monitor through my mixer's mains or control room outs depending on the application.
 
Farview said:
How are you going to sing in time and in tune to music that you are not listening to?
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I know a little late in responding. The answer is I'm not. It's not singing and it's just a voice over with background music.
 
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