What do I do now?

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TripleM

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Up until now, I've recorded using a PC, Mackie mixer, and my PC speakers as monitors. I just recently purchased a pair of Event PS5 (active) monitors. But they've presented a problem.

In the past when recording tracks, I would run a line from the 1/8 in headphone jack on my PC speakers to my tape input on the mixer. Then I could plug my headphones in the mixer's 1/4 in headphone jack to monitor during recording. That gave me an amplified signal to a decent set of phones. (I could run the signal directly from the speakers to a set of headphones, but only really cheap ones, and the sound would "leak").

But the Events don't have a headphone output jack. So with this new setup how do I send a signal to headphones during recording? Any ideas? What do other people do?
 
That's what I want to use, but how do I get the output signal back into the mixer? The soundcard output is going to the monitors. Mackies have the ALT3/4 bus, and I'm wondering if I can use that. But I'm just not sure how.
 
Connect the line out to a stereo channel on the Mackie and connect the monitors to the Mackie's Control Room outputs.
 
Thanks. I just spoke to a friend who gave me the same advice. It's good to hear it confirmed.
 
Once you use the channel direct outs and/or the board's subgroups (or alt 3/4) to send to the recorder you shouldn't have any problems with feedback loops.
Good Luck.
 
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