hard mixer set-up

theron3 wrote on 8/17/2001, 11:16 PM
this is kind of off topic but, help would enhance my Vegas using pleasure.
I've a beringer eurorack mx 602A mixer. How can I monitor my recording tracks and the simultanious playback all through my mixer. For example, I want to listen to a vegas playback of exsisting tracks while I record another track at the same time. Is anyone using the same mixer? I've an SB Live 5.0 soundcard with one output. Currently,I'm going from microphone to hard mixer and out of the mixer via the Main Outs into line in of the soudcard and just hook my headphones(for recording) or monitors(for listening back and mixing) into the speaker out of the soundcard.
Who has a better way?

P.S. The monitors are Fostex PS3.1's and I just got them. Any tips on set-up of these would be great too.

Damn, I ask a lot.

Muchos Gracias, Theron

should I be looking elseware for this type of help?

Comments

PipelineAudio wrote on 8/18/2001, 1:59 AM
This is as ON topic as it could get! Putting Vegas in touch with the real world is NOT as easy or as powerful as it should be. The very fact that you ask this sheds light on the whole issue, and thank you very much for that....

Now let me step off the soap box, and go have a look at the manual for your console :)

Oh boy...
looking at http://www.behringer-download.de/MX602A/MX602A_C_ENG.pdf

you havent got too many choices. Seems you have the setup as correct as can be. The 2 trk to control room and 2trk to mix gives you some versatility, though you would loose aux send and channel EQ for the soundcard output if you used those jacks...but probably you wouldnt want those anyways. Use the control room out to send to speakers to avoid funny feedback loops when using your soundcard, but thats about it. In operation if you hit 2 trk to control room, but NOT 2 trk to main mix, do you still hear the mains? if not, that would be the ideal way to monitor existing tracks while overdubbing new ones.
theron3 wrote on 8/19/2001, 1:09 AM
right now, all I have is input to the soundcard (sb live 5.1) I've been listening back to all the pre's via the soundcard mixer and headphones/monitors. I tend to use outside/hard effects on my vocals so, it takes up the aux in/out to push them through the hard mixer.
I was hoping to gain some control over what is playing while I'm recording by having it wired to my hard mixer. I guess I need a fancier mixer.
I've played with the tape in/tape out jacks and I can almost recite the mixer manual.
It just seems like I'm doing it the hard and crude way. What else is new!
Rockitglider wrote on 8/19/2001, 6:02 AM
Hello,

I own the same mixer, And the way I do it is I use the Main out to Sound card in, and the cotrol room out to monitor speakers, and headphones to headphones. I have a Mic in on channel 1, and a guitar in on Channels 3&4 stereo through a J-Station. I do the selection of what I want to hear on during recording through Vegas Mute & Solo switches from tracks already in Vegas, After you arm the track in Vegas and get all your volumes adjusted, you can solo the tracks you want to hear during recording and they come through the sound card outs along with whats coming from the mixer, then I can also adjust the control room monitors seperately. But you can also take your sound card outs to tape in on the mixer and use the 2Tk to Cntrl Rm switch to monitor through the mixer then adjust the volumes of Main and Control Room to get desired mix. But the first way you're getting the mix in vegas where you want it anyway if your going to record the mix to hard disk. The mixer doesn't have too many options but it works for what I need to do. I try to keep most of the adjusting in Vegas and use the mixer for bringing all the exterior hardware together.

See ya,, Rockit
theron3 wrote on 8/21/2001, 1:34 AM
So, if I were to explore your first option ( I currently run my main out hard mixer to the line-in of my soundcard) how do I get the audio from Vegas into my hrd mixer? I know you probably just told me in your previous post but, I'm dence like that. If I can fit this nugget of info into my head, then I'm set.
Theron.
Rockitglider wrote on 8/21/2001, 10:45 AM
Hello,

You can bring the mix back in from Vegas in a couple of ways, you could go from sound card out to the RCA inputs at the main area of the mixer, then depress the 2k to mix switch to patch the sound coming in to the main mix out. Or you can use the aux return inputs from the sound card outputs, and control the input to the main mix from the aux return fader by the RCA jacks on the mixer.

That should help you.

See ya, Rockit