Need Help with my equipment

[tat]

hi I am new to this site

I am a singer and I have all this wonderful but complicated equipment which is driving me crazy. I find the handbooks baffling.

I have a EURORACK MX2004A Ultra-Low Noise Design, 20-Channel mic/line mixer. A Lexicon MPX 500 24 bit dual channel processor and a MULTICOM PRO MDX4400

Interactive Reference-Class 4-channel Compressor / Limiter / Peak Limiter. And in order to use it through my laptop I have it connected through an external sound card gadget which I bought recently in order to be able to use USB on laptop which is a Terratec Aureon X Fire 8.0 HD External Sound Card. I play music files from my laptop using a karaoke software program to sing to and try to stream it through a radio stream. I record my songs using the software Audacity. I also have my old karaoke player hooked up to equipment which seems t play in stereo. Most of it over all seems to work except when I stream and record and it then all comes out mono. It needs to be stereo of course and this mono stuff is holding me back. I cannot see how or why it is coming out this way. everything I can set is set to stereo...

I have to admit that I had to hire a sound engineer some months ago to set all this for me because I got the new external sound card and I know nothing much about my equipment set up, and somewhere along the line its going mono..
In all fairness the may well have set it up as it should be but I have had some problems with having to reinstall my external sound card software and maybe it lost settings although when I look in its settings its set to stereo...

can anyone advise?
regards tat

 

[ecc83]

Sorry to tell you Tat but you have bought the wrong Audio Interface for recording work. That Terratec unit is a "domestic" audio gizmo. In any case AFAIK Terratec are only one small step removed from the dreadful Sound Blaster internal cards in their uselessness. I had a Ttec card for a year or so. Bloody awful and the company has ***t customer service.

The rest of your gear is "ok" if a complete overkill for home recording. Start investigating proper interfaces, notably how many tracks you want to record at any one time.

If four will do ya, look no further and Google " NI KA6" ( right Bobbs?!!)

Check the stickies of course.

Dave.

 

[tat]

Many thanks Dave for your reply and advice, It gives me a pointer or direction to look at and will google the NI KA6 with great interest