New Guy question - Tascam 424MKII and Behringer 1202 related

[Jeff Hitman]

Hello all,
I just joined up and would like to ask for some basic info. I do a
fair amount of home recording with my 3 piece instrumental band using
a Tascam 424MkII and although it's clearly limited people have had
good things to say about the quality of our recordings.

My question stems from an experience I had last night. I usually use
just 2 mics on the drums, an overhead and a kick. The sound is
surprisingly good but I thought I could do better.

So... I went out and bought a couple of MXL condensers for overheads,
stuck an SM57 on the snare and another on the kick (soon to be
upgraded to a Beta 52 or other) and plugged all that into a new
Behringer 1202 which ran out to the 4 track onto one track.

The sound was distorted and unusable.

I was running shielded 1/4" cable from the main outs (L&R) on the
Behringer to the Tascam.

Can anyone tell me whether using the tape outs (RCA jacks) is the
correct way to go? What am I doing wrong? The Behringer manual is of
no help.
Please help if you can.
Thanks,
-Jeff

 

[MemoGtr]

hey
i have the same equipment haha, just that i use my computer to record

i use the tape outs from the 1202 and they sound fine

 

[DigitalSmigital]

So, the 1202's Tape Out...

is two RCAs, and you put an adapter for the 424's 1/4" ch, input? What about the chanell trim pot on the 424? All the way down? What kind of levels on the TASCAMs meters? Fader positions?

This Behringer 1202 doesn't have a Line Out???

 

[earwhig]

I had the same problem using similar equipment(mxl's, 424mkII, sm57) Keep the gain down on your overheads. I was getting an awfully beligerant overhead sound and noticed that the problem went away when I turned the gain down on my preamp and compensated by turning the channel faders up on my tascam
(till the levels read about +3db, leaving 3 db headroom.)

-played around till the overheads sounded good, brought up my snare and kick, e.q.'ing them to taste. Hope that helps.......I'm pretty new myself. Have fun recording.

 

[MemoGtr]

is two RCAs, and you put an adapter for the 424's 1/4" ch, input? What about the chanell trim pot on the 424? All the way down? What kind of levels on the TASCAMs meters? Fader positions?

This Behringer 1202 doesn't have a Line Out???

you can use the stereo ins (channles 7 and 8)
what kind of levels?? just hot enough yet not clipping...like always

the fader position will depend on how hot the signal from the 1202 is already...

the 1202 doest have a line out but i GUESS the tape outs do the same job


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