Monitoring sound card.

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Can the output of a Sound Blaster be sent to a Mixer (Eurorack MX2004A) so that I can listen to, say for instance, a playback from CoolEdit. I don't want the PC speakers feeding back into the mix. The mic's are in the same room. So far all I have go is some nasty sounds when I have tried to feed the sterio output of the card into the mixer.
 
musicislife65 said:
Can the output of a Sound Blaster be sent to a Mixer (Eurorack MX2004A) so that I can listen to, say for instance, a playback from CoolEdit.
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obviously, yes...how are you routing everything?...not clear about the issue. the mics are in the 'same' room? which room?
 
Hi,
Everything is in the same room. For instance, I lay down a rythym track, and then when I play it back to solo over it, the olny way I can hear it, is to play it back over the PC speakers.....so, it feeds back into the second take.

I got the feed back to the mixer working. The terible noise was the 'Windows' (double clicking on the little speaker on the task bar) level was to high. I would love to take Windows out of the picture all together, and have all of my levels at the mixer. I brought that down to about half way and no feedback. I do how ever have what I call 'machine' or computer noise comming through that channel. I have all of the mic's muted and I still have noise. I am going to try my new 2496 and see if that is more quite than the Sound Blaster.

Thank you for your input!
 
I read this on another post----use an external mixer between the cpu and the speakers. +headphones

By the way---Do you have to have 2 sound cards to do simultaneous playback recording/ I can never seem to get it to work on my computer. Then again, I do have a shoddy sb16 rip off. How do I determine if my sound card is capable of this?
 
There are a few ways you can solve this problem, and it really depends on your specific mixer & how many monitoring options it has. I have two recording systems - the main one with an Alesis mixer, and a small one with a SoundBlaster/Behringer 802 mixer. I have them wired differently because I use them for different things. Regardless, you don't want to be putting the playback through speakers while you are recording. Even if it is not "feeding back" its still going to bleed into the mix. You should be using headphones for monitoring during the actual recording.

If your mixer is like my Behringer, you have your main outs, your tape outs, and your control room out. Plus headphones tied to the control room out. And you may have channel direct outs, and additional monitor or auxillary sends. Then you have your channel inputs plus tape ins. Your mics and sound card line out should be feeding channel inputs. Your control room out should be feeding your monitors. Your tape out should be feeding the sound card line-in. You could also use the main out for this, but on the Behringer mixers the main out is +4 balanced, while the tape out is -10 unbalanced. Basicly this just means that the tape out is a better match for your Soundblaster.

The Windows mixer applet has both playback and recording settings. Unless you are actually recording something, the "Line In" fader on Playback should be muted. You mentioned that you had your mics "muted". You should not be using the mic input on the Sound Blaster at all, just the line ins & outs.

Hope this helps....
 
A Behringer MX2004A as a matter of fact. Thanks for the input, I will give it a try. I am olny using the in/out of the sound card. I know not to use the mic input of a sound card. The mic's I was refering to were the 57's I have going into the board. I read you stuff over again and found a few things I can change for better sound, thank you for your time!
 
gartulan said:
By the way---Do you have to have 2 sound cards to do simultaneous playback recording/ I can never seem to get it to work on my computer. Then again, I do have a shoddy sb16 rip off. How do I determine if my sound card is capable of this?
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The soundcard has to support full-duplex, which means recording and playback simultaniously, opposed to half-duplex.
Although your soundcard may be not much as you claimed yourself, from my experience any soundcard that has hit the shops over the past 6 or 7 years should support full-duplex mode.
But there may be some exceptions of course..

Or else you should be able to find yourself a used sb64 for less than a toddler's pocketmoney.
 
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