trouble with mixer

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do i have to hook my mixer up to an input and output on my soundcard, or can i use just the input and have the output come out of my speakers on the soundcard?
 
chazverges said:
do i have to hook my mixer up to an input and output on my soundcard, or can i use just the input and have the output come out of my speakers on the soundcard?
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The way I use my mixer is that all instruments get routed through the mixer to the soundcard via a subgroup/buss output (use the aux sends if your mixer doesn't have busses)
The outs from the soundcard also go into a stereo channel of the mixer.
This prevents having to pull out and plug in leads every time I want to record anything or hear it back.
I can also listen to MIDI from synths (prior to recording them as audio) and all audio from the computer at the same time.

The monitors are connected to the main outs of the mixer (monitors will generally need to be turned off when using a microphone or you'll get nasty feedback)

hope this helps!
Dags
 
there are many ways of configuring mixers and soundcards. Dags has described one way which will work fine.

What you suggest will work fine as well. You don't need to go from your soundcard back into the mixer, and you can send the soundcard output direct to speakers (or an amp and speakers).

My method is not to use the mixer mains as the monitoring output. They go straight into the PC. Instead I feed the PC signal into the control room output of the mixer and hang the monitors off that
 
Ethan Winer said:
Chaz,

> do i have to hook my mixer up to an input and output on my soundcard <

See this article from EQ magazine:

www.ethanwiner.com/mixer2daw.html

--Ethan
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Excellent article Ethan! I wonder if we can turn the link into a sticky so that it remains there as a reference in the forum?

Dags
 
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