I need a nudge.

[capnkid]

I have my new emu 0404 souncard installed, and have a behringer mixer and my monitoring system is hooked up through an old but reliable stereo. How should I hook up the mixer? It is a eurotrack ub 1002.
For now I just want to play the guitar and mess with cubasis, but for some reason I have been putting it off, I don't know what I'm scared of. can someone give me some encouragement or a nudge?

 

[tubesrawsom]

hook it up with the tape outs from the mixer into the sound card
there no need to worry make mistakes and learn from them
recording music is fun not scary

 

[thajeremy]

I dont see how using tape outs that way could be anywhere near the best way...not even sure if it would work at all. If you have your guitar (mic'd or DI) into channel one of the mixer, use the main out of the mixer to go to your soundcard. You will probably need a Y cable to combine the left and right outs into one stereo input or just record mono by using one cable from either left or right out of mixer into your soundcard. For monitoring, come out of your soundcard into the inputs of your stereo. Thats it. There are a ton of other ways to set it up depending on what you want to do, but if you just want to record yourself playing guitar and listen back to it...this will work.

hope this helps...
Jeremy

 

[mattamatta]

I dont think you'll end up needing a Y cable if you've got the 0404. Not sure if the ins are balanced or not, but I doubt you have a balanced out on the behringer mixer anyway, so you'll just have left and right into inputs one and 2 or whatever.

Could also stick a mono 1/4" cable halfway into the inserts, which your mixer probably has, and run that into each channel, so you'd be using the inserts as makeshift "direct outs". Might eliminate some of the crappy circuitry in the mixer from the signal path.

Or if you're mixing down several things to two outputs, you'll go out of the main outs, or maybe soemthing else, depending on the situations that arise.