Randy0Marsh
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Hi guys I have a few questions- This might be a lot to read but please bear with me if you have time?
I recently inherited some gear and over the last year few months or so I've been putting together a bare-bones home studio, finally culminating with getting a new PC. Theoretically I should be ready to go. Let me give you a little background so I don't sound like a complete idiot lol
Skill level? I'd say medium nublet?
Pretty sure that I'm ok at recording/mixing/pro in general. I have an older AA in Audio Pro from the Seattle AI from like 10 years ago. I learned standards and junk on original Protools and really nice Mackie consoles behind the glass, however it's been a really long time, and I've forgotten most of the important details unfortunately. I know my mic placement, I know what mics are for what, and I'm a long term guitar player with good pitch so i know how to use cables and most regular musician stuff from like running live sound, tuning everything together, and other easy stuff like that. Here's the only track to survive my old housefire
01 Tearfull(this was made with a ton of cocaine, a 1/4 to 1/8 patch cable into my laptops Mic in slot. Two tracks, changed strings on guitar for the lead track.)
Anyway that's a little background on me specifically, here's the issue that brought me here:
-"inherited" a Behringer XENYX 1202 because my friend owed me money and i had no Audio Interface, so i took it to use for a soundcard/open mic mixer
-2x Behringers cardiod dynamic SM54 knockoffs
-several electric and acoustic guitars with hole-pickups
-I also have a Roland KR5 Digital Piano. Older one. Pre-USB everything, but has a TON of usefull things on it. The ultimate electric piano, weighted keys and everything, just circa like 2001 or something lol.
-"ok" pair of Behringer MS20 field monitors. They're not great but I can run monitors and control room/headphones at different volumes and locations ect.
-Decent pair of phones. Not very good actually, just a nice Razer gaming headset also with a mic
-Due to the overwhelming presence of Behringer products around me I'm kind of running a theme now, which wasn't my plan, but it's a cheap solution until i can afford to get some really nice gear.
So I like the mixer, but the preamps seem really low, like if i could turn them about 15% higher it would save me using a lot of gain which is killing my noise ceiling. I can mix sound and run through both monitors and through control room easily. My computer recognizes the XENYX and runs in/out through it no problem controlling all computer volume through the main mix slider. I run stereo cables on my piano, and mono for the guitars and mics are on good XLRs
I've been going a little crazy though, because no matter what I do I can't get my DaW monitors to register any sound from my line in. I'm only trying to record one channel at a time, not multitrack so i should be able to record two things(tops) at once, at this point i'd just be happy registering on the DaW monitors. I am like 100% sure this is a stupid user error issue. I know it's bad, and yes i feel bad lol.
I've been using a mix of programs to try and get a line signal on and i haven't gotten one off of anything but soundforge when i plugged in through a direct box, and that didn't work with anything else. Tried:
-Adobe Audition,Studio One, FL11, cUBASE, Amplitube, Soundforge, Acid, Sonar, Audacity and Ignite. That's how i know its my bad, because one of those should have worked right?
Decided to focus on Audacity because of all the VSTs and junk free. That's what lead me here. I read a lot of threads, and it seems like Behringer has a lot of problems with their mixers like this, but i can never find anyone with a 1202, only a 1204 and mine is missing certain buttons that seem to fix the problem with that model? I don't have any obvious stuff like no channel is muted or solo'd, the main mix and control mix are divided and both being used. The only real weakness in my game at this point is that I don't know Audacity very well, so I'm like 75% sure that's the reason I can't get my line in to register despite doing everything from watching youtube to randomly pushing buttons and reinstalling repeatedly lol; i think i might have a blind spot where this problem is concerned or something? Or i just suck and haven't found a good enough Audacity tutorial to show me what's up with my problemo
I implore you, please, please, please, please help me figure out what i'm doing wrong oh great AV masters!!! If you're like me you know how frustrating it is to not be able to lay down any tracks I only hope to at least be pointed in the right direction please
I recently inherited some gear and over the last year few months or so I've been putting together a bare-bones home studio, finally culminating with getting a new PC. Theoretically I should be ready to go. Let me give you a little background so I don't sound like a complete idiot lol
Skill level? I'd say medium nublet?
Pretty sure that I'm ok at recording/mixing/pro in general. I have an older AA in Audio Pro from the Seattle AI from like 10 years ago. I learned standards and junk on original Protools and really nice Mackie consoles behind the glass, however it's been a really long time, and I've forgotten most of the important details unfortunately. I know my mic placement, I know what mics are for what, and I'm a long term guitar player with good pitch so i know how to use cables and most regular musician stuff from like running live sound, tuning everything together, and other easy stuff like that. Here's the only track to survive my old housefire
01 Tearfull(this was made with a ton of cocaine, a 1/4 to 1/8 patch cable into my laptops Mic in slot. Two tracks, changed strings on guitar for the lead track.)
Anyway that's a little background on me specifically, here's the issue that brought me here:
-"inherited" a Behringer XENYX 1202 because my friend owed me money and i had no Audio Interface, so i took it to use for a soundcard/open mic mixer
-2x Behringers cardiod dynamic SM54 knockoffs
-several electric and acoustic guitars with hole-pickups
-I also have a Roland KR5 Digital Piano. Older one. Pre-USB everything, but has a TON of usefull things on it. The ultimate electric piano, weighted keys and everything, just circa like 2001 or something lol.
-"ok" pair of Behringer MS20 field monitors. They're not great but I can run monitors and control room/headphones at different volumes and locations ect.
-Decent pair of phones. Not very good actually, just a nice Razer gaming headset also with a mic
-Due to the overwhelming presence of Behringer products around me I'm kind of running a theme now, which wasn't my plan, but it's a cheap solution until i can afford to get some really nice gear.
So I like the mixer, but the preamps seem really low, like if i could turn them about 15% higher it would save me using a lot of gain which is killing my noise ceiling. I can mix sound and run through both monitors and through control room easily. My computer recognizes the XENYX and runs in/out through it no problem controlling all computer volume through the main mix slider. I run stereo cables on my piano, and mono for the guitars and mics are on good XLRs
I've been going a little crazy though, because no matter what I do I can't get my DaW monitors to register any sound from my line in. I'm only trying to record one channel at a time, not multitrack so i should be able to record two things(tops) at once, at this point i'd just be happy registering on the DaW monitors. I am like 100% sure this is a stupid user error issue. I know it's bad, and yes i feel bad lol.
I've been using a mix of programs to try and get a line signal on and i haven't gotten one off of anything but soundforge when i plugged in through a direct box, and that didn't work with anything else. Tried:
-Adobe Audition,Studio One, FL11, cUBASE, Amplitube, Soundforge, Acid, Sonar, Audacity and Ignite. That's how i know its my bad, because one of those should have worked right?
Decided to focus on Audacity because of all the VSTs and junk free. That's what lead me here. I read a lot of threads, and it seems like Behringer has a lot of problems with their mixers like this, but i can never find anyone with a 1202, only a 1204 and mine is missing certain buttons that seem to fix the problem with that model? I don't have any obvious stuff like no channel is muted or solo'd, the main mix and control mix are divided and both being used. The only real weakness in my game at this point is that I don't know Audacity very well, so I'm like 75% sure that's the reason I can't get my line in to register despite doing everything from watching youtube to randomly pushing buttons and reinstalling repeatedly lol; i think i might have a blind spot where this problem is concerned or something? Or i just suck and haven't found a good enough Audacity tutorial to show me what's up with my problemo
I implore you, please, please, please, please help me figure out what i'm doing wrong oh great AV masters!!! If you're like me you know how frustrating it is to not be able to lay down any tracks I only hope to at least be pointed in the right direction please