How to connect all this?

[Ferry123]

After having heard the Mackie HR824-speakers, I am planning to take my homerecording a little bit more seriously.

I was also planning to buy this mixer: http://www.soundcraft.com/product_sheet.asp?product_id=121

I do use a pc, have Logic, and use this soundcard: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta1010LT-main.html

Just curious, how to connect mixer/soundcard/speakers correctly? What's the best solution?

 

[Bulls Hit]

I'm not sure how many outputs those mixers have, ie if you'd get 8 seperate outputs for the 8 inputs on your sound card. If you only need to record a couple of tracks at a time it should be OK.

Typically you'd plug your mic into a mixer channel, output the channel to one of the delta inputs (either direct out, or through the insert), route outputs 1 & 2 from the delta back to the monitoring (2-track in) inputs on the mixer, and then out from the mixer's Control Room outputs to your monitors

 

[Ethan Winer]

Ferry,

> Just curious, how to connect mixer/soundcard/speakers correctly? What's the best solution? <

Here's how I do it:

www.ethanwiner.com/mixer2daw.html

--Ethan

 

[Ferry123]

I'm not sure how many outputs those mixers have, ie if you'd get 8 seperate outputs for the 8 inputs on your sound card. If you only need to record a couple of tracks at a time it should be OK.

Typically you'd plug your mic into a mixer channel, output the channel to one of the delta inputs (either direct out, or through the insert), route outputs 1 & 2 from the delta back to the monitoring (2-track in) inputs on the mixer, and then out from the mixer's Control Room outputs to your monitors

Ferry,

> Just curious, how to connect mixer/soundcard/speakers correctly? What's the best solution? <

Here's how I do it:

www.ethanwiner.com/mixer2daw.html

--Ethan

Thanx. Very useful article that is!

Just one question: On the mixer, where do i put what cable to connect the Mackie HR824 monitors? The Mackies themselves have two options: XLR and jack.

So, in what hole on the mixer do i connect this XLR-cable / jack cable? I mean, what's this particular hole called? What output?

 

[Bulls Hit]

It's usually called Control Room Out

 

[Ethan Winer]

> It's usually called Control Room Out <

Exactly. Or Main Out or something similar.

 

[Ferry123]

> It's usually called Control Room Out <

Exactly. Or Main Out or something similar.

Thanks for the comments.

I have succeeded.

Here's what I did:

* I put a 'male' cable (2x) on the output of my soundcard
* connect those to stereo L/R on my Soundcraft Compact 4
* then with my jack/jack-cables I connected Monitor L/R on the Soundcraft to the inputs of my Mackies.

It's great to hear the music come out of those Mackie Hr824s..