need connection help

[rut]

I have just purchased the m-audio 2496 card to use with my Behringer mx602A mixer. I have a few questions regarding how to hook everything up.

For those not familiar with the mixer, it is basically 4 channels with a left and right aux return, one stereo aux send, L&R control room out, L&R main out, L&R tape in and tape out, headphones out..

I'm assuming the mixer will feed from the main out to the soundcard inputs. Do you normally connect the soundcard out back to the mixer? What would be the benefit of this and what connections on the mixer would you use so you aren't adding it back to the original mix? The reason I'm thinking you would want to do this is when listening to the metronome track while recording, or listening to the rtyhm track while recording a lead, assuming you use the mixer headphone jack for this.

Or would you just use the headphones on the computer speaker and just hook the soundcard out to the speakers only?

Thanks,
Rut

 

[TimOBrien]

Tape or line-out of the mixer to the inputs of the soundcard.

I just run the line-outs of the soundcard to my monitor system. If you can headphone there, you'll hear everything including your metronome track.

Easiest way to do it....

 

[rut]

But wouldn't that cause the metronome to be recorded also? I'm not real clear on how to monitor (or where to monitor) the mentronome track without it appearing in the mix.

Rut

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Here's the set-up I originally followed: http://www.tweakheadz.com/images/nmodisetup.jpg

I have the Audiophile 2496 and a small Wharfedale mixer. Although it seems that connecting the soundcard back in through the mixer is the logical thing to do (and supporting by drawings I've seen) to monitor all tracks (and hear the metronome) while recording, in my case (and I know I'm not alone) when I do so, no matter what cable routing I try on the mixer, I've been experiencing crosstalk/bleed on all audio tracks. The latest possible solution I've read on this forum is to run the soundcard outs to a separate headphone amp, therefore not having to bring the recorded tracks back into the mixer. One guy posting about this same problem just solved it this way. To me it seems rediculous to have to buy a separate piece of gear to accomplish what I feel the mixer set-up should, and maybe it's a condition of an entry-level mixer (if i would've bought one model level higher the mixer would've had channel inserts which I understand would've been a solution), but in the end, unless someone enlightens me, I guess I'll soon be buying a headphone amp.