Should be an easy question for you guys/gals.

[jmorrisonbc]

Need help!

Having a great time recording tracks for the first time...just wild!

I have a question that concerns cabling-routing:

Picture my desk, I have a Shure Mic (dynamic) plugged into the 1st XLR jack on a cheapo Behringer 602 mixer. From "Main Outs", two short 1/4" cables run over to my Delta 44 breakout box "Line In 1&2".
Then, from "Out 1&2", two 1/4" cables run to my powered monitors, ending in RCA connectors.
When I record, I have to reach behind my monitors and turn the sound off, or turn off the sound feed from Delta's Monitor Mixer.
When I add a track, I have to run a dinky set of headphones from the back of the monitors (1/8") to hear my cues in the song.

In other words....I have no control of the signal going to the monitors nor can I use the 1/4" headphone jack on the mixing board.

How SHOULD I have cabled this set-up?...Seems to me the breakout box should feed back to the mixer...THEN out to the monitors...but how?

Thanks for a detailed description in advance!!

 

[dachay2tnr]

Your problem lies in running the Main Outs from your mixer to the sound card. Generally you want to run from the individual channel Direct Out connections on the mixer, or from the Channel Inserts. I'm not familiar with your mixer, so I don't know what options you have available. However, this approach lets you record each channel to its own individual track - which is normally what you would want to do.

Once you do the above, you can run the outs from your sound card into two unused channels on your mixer, and then connect your monitor speakers to the mixer's Main Outs.

There may be several other way to accomplish what you want to do - such as using Control Room outs - alot depends on what capabilities/connections the mixer has. You said its an el cheapo, so your choices might be limited.

 

[Osbick Bird]

Re: Need help!

Having a great time recording tracks for the first time...just wild!

I have a question that concerns cabling-routing:

Picture my desk, I have a Shure Mic (dynamic) plugged into the 1st XLR jack on a cheapo Behringer 602 mixer. From "Main Outs", two short 1/4" cables run over to my Delta 44 breakout box "Line In 1&2".
Then, from "Out 1&2", two 1/4" cables run to my powered monitors, ending in RCA connectors.
When I record, I have to reach behind my monitors and turn the sound off, or turn off the sound feed from Delta's Monitor Mixer.
When I add a track, I have to run a dinky set of headphones from the back of the monitors (1/8") to hear my cues in the song.

In other words....I have no control of the signal going to the monitors nor can I use the 1/4" headphone jack on the mixing board.

How SHOULD I have cabled this set-up?...Seems to me the breakout box should feed back to the mixer...THEN out to the monitors...but how?

Thanks for a detailed description in advance!!

Looking at the manual on Behringer's site, it looks like the 602 has pair of buttons to allow you to choose where the 2-track input (the "tape in" jacks) is routed. One lets you send the 2-track input to the "control room" buss (control room outputs and headphones) and one lets you decide whether or not to send the 2-track input to the mix.

What you might try to do is take the output from your sound card and send it to the 2-track input. Make sure that you have the switches set so the 2-track input IS sent to the control room bus, but IS NOT sent to the mix. If it is sent to the mix you will end up with feedback a-gogo. Plug your good headphones into the headphone jack and adjust the phones/control room knob to a comfortable level.

Effectively what you get from this is the signal going into the mixer, out of the mixer's mains, into the computer, out of the computer, into the two-track return and to the control room bus, where you pick it up on your headphones. You will still want to turn off your external monitors when tracking, or just unplug them when you hook up the setup as described above.

You might wait for someone else to confirm this, but this seems to me to be the reason these switches are there.

OB