UB802/Audiphile USB/CEP V1.2 Monitor Mix Problem Yet Again!!

[Collie The Dog]

Having read all the posts on Audiophile USB and Cool Edit Pro, I still cannot seem to get a proper resolution to my problem of the Tape In mix bleeding back into new recorded tracks.

To get around this I have had to reroute my TapeOut to my laptop mic in and direct output to my laptop speakers just so I can hear pre-recorded and newly dubbed tracks.

Has anybody come up with a clever way of using the Behringer UB802 mixer so that the output of the soundcard can be routed through this without track overlap?? The Tape To Ctrl Room function just mutes all sound. What a great function that turned out to be.

Seems I went for a trurkey of an external soundcard that doesn't have its own internal mixer software. I live and learn.

 

[distortedrumble]

there isnt a way....i tried the same thing..i own the ub802 and the pci audiophile 24/96. and when it comes to volume control....if you have a knob on your speakers then use that....your only other choice is to go into the windows mixer and turn down the wav playback.

 

[Collie The Dog]

Thanks for the reply. I have been racking my brain for days trying different combinations to get this working. I can monitor the whole mix through the laptop speakers, (coming from the mixer tape out) but the laptop mic input is pre-amped, so my monitored guitar mix is a bit distorted. There is no line level input on the laptop card.

The USB is still doing the recording and I get the USB recorded sound on playback. Pity, as the USB has good recorded sound. Still, can't have everything.

 

[distortedrumble]

yeah i almost threw a temper-tantrum. but heres what i did....i bought the behringer headphone amp HA4700. i sent the control room outs from the mixer to the back of the headphone amp(L and R inputs there) and i sent the playback from the computer into the direct input in the front of the headphone amp. and that way i can hear both my vocals and the computer sound. you can turn one down and the other one up and what not to suit your tastes.....i love the hell out of that thing.

 

[Collie The Dog]

Thanks again DD for the reply. Didn't even know headphone amps existed. Still a bit fresh at this recording game.

Checked out the spec and price and it definetely seems a good buy. From what started out as a simple soundcard problem has forced me to buy a mixer and then a headphone amp!! I have more leads, cables and power plugs than NASA at the minute!!

So that means bypassing mixer headphone obviously and just using the headphone amp all the time. So I would need to record via USB card, and playback through my old soundcard with line out going to the headphone amp? Or can I still send all my playback to the USB card and use teh control room outs somehow ??

 

[distortedrumble]

the control room outs on the mixer are how you'll hear whats comming out of the mixer (your vocals or your guitar or whatever you have in the inputs on your mixer) connect your control room outs to the inputs on the headphone amp. you can still run the sound through your audiophile just run the sound from your audiophile into the headphone amp also. that connects to the direct in...and there should be a volume knob in the back of the audiophile right?

 

[Collie The Dog]

You have definetely sold me on the headphone amp. Ability to feed in the seperate direct in will solve all the problems and still let me use the usb card, which I bought for its superior sound quality in the first place! (I will still swear and rant at the mixer for the problems!)

Also be able to jam with a few mates and not annoy the missus. Will get one next week.

Help very much appreciated.

 

[distortedrumble]

cool deal....yeah go ahead and cuss out the mixer....it only speaks german anyway lol