Please Help... I Want To Use My Equipment

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My problem is not anything more than ignorance. I have a sound card called USB QUATTRO AUDIOSPORT and it has 4 outputs and 4 inputs. To the outputs i had connected 2 Yamaha active monitors and to the inputs i had connected my Korg Triton. The card of course connected to a computer through the USB port. Now I expanded my studio and bought a Behringer MX2004A with 20 channels, a direct box, a guitar, bass, a shure Microphone and a cassette deck. I have no idea where everything goes, i dont understand how to add all this because the instructions the quattro card has are very technical and the mixer instructions are more complicated. I tried to do it but im getting some really loud noise and it has to do with the levels of the output or the input of the interface. I dont get how the soudcard works it has 2 levels for outputs and inputs: one level (in) has a 10dBV setting and another (out) that has a + 4dBu line level, anyway... please help me i want to use everything i have and dont know how to connect everything to the sound card, or the sound card to the mixer... whatever HELP PLEASE!

erick jimenez
 
Without knowing what your trying to do with your gear it's a bit hard to tell you exactly how to hook it up.:confused:

As far as the signal levels, most pro audio gear works at +4 and most home/consumer gear at -10. Beware of ground loops and use good cables. Avoid adapters.

Hope this helps.
 
Whatever, try going from the "tape out" RCA jacks on the Behringer to the -10dBv input on the soundcard. Not all line levels were created equal. BTW, EBTECH produces a nifty box called LLS-2 (2 channel line level shifter) for about $50 which accepts balanced or unbalanced 1/4" plugs, and will change -10 to +4 or the other way around. It requires no power and introduces virtually no noise to the signal chain. I bought it to use a bunch of outboard boxes into a KORG PXR4 Pandora, but I have found bizzillions of uses for it. I'm not familiar with your particular Behringer board, but the master outs should be +4 and the tape outs should be -10. Hope this helps.-Richie
 
i could use some steps

What i need are the steps to connect this the best way posible.

I want to use my equipment for home recording of course...
 
Hook your monitor speakers up to your mixer, from the monitor output jacks to the speaker, not from your computer, to your speaker. I' not sure about your sound card, but make sure in the play control that the play and wave channels are not muted, if you have them. I'm just trying to help anyway I can. Come out your computer thru your soundcard with a 1/8" to a 1/4 into your mixer, or from the 2 outputs to your mixer. Choose a couple of channels, I use the end. 23 and 24 assign them to l/r, make sure the monitor control know is turned up to the middle, and pull the master faders to 0 db. Take it from there, hop this helps some :confused: :)
 
Here's one way of doing it:

4 - 1/4" cables from mixer's CHANNEL INSERT to the 4 inputs on your sound card. Plug your instruments into channels 1-4. The mixer acts as a preamp for your soundcard.

I'm not sure how the zero latency monitoring works on your card, so I'd run the main outputs from the soundcard into an available stereo channel on the mixer. Main outs from the mixer into the monitors.

If your zero latency monitoring can be assigned to the soundcard's outputs 3 & 4, run that into another available stereo channel.

Use the trip knobs at the top of channels 1-4 to set levels into the soundcard (you won't hear the instruments through the mixer on these channels unless you use specially soldered TRS cables).

Learn your mixer and your soundcard. You'll probably find other ways of doing things that better suit your recording style.
 
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