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Re: Sound card + outboard mixer = great
02/14/12 05:08 AM
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> Right. If you have a mixer, then you could just leave the Audiophile permanently
> connected to two track inserts (needs specially constructed cables), or an aux bus
> (off the shelf cables - this is what I did). This will not affect functionality of
> the mixer if you need to use it for something else.
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> Then, when you want to record an instrument or microphone connected to any channel on
> the mixer, you'd simply press the channel button that routes its signal to the aux
> bus where the sound card inputs are connected. When recording a stereo signal from a
> keyboard, or recording two separate instruments at once, you'd pan each channel hard
> left and hard right to separate the signals, thus recording one on each track in your
> sequencer.
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> To monitor/play back your recording, you'd leave the stereo output of the sound card
> connected to any available stereo channel.
This is pretty much exactly the setup I have. I have a Mackie 1202VLZ-Pro, and I run two of the direct outs into the Audiophile. Output from the Audiophile comes back through one of the stereo channels.
One thought, if you're recording (electric) guitar direct, you would ideally want some kind of direct box. You can run the guitar through the mixer's mic pre's, but it's not going to sound fantastic because if the impedance mismatch. I use an old Johnson J-Station to record guitar. I run the S/PDIF out from the J-Station into the Audiophile, and either use the J-Station's amp models or a clean pass-through patch if I want to use a software amp sim.
It's not Abbey Road, but it works great for my purposes.
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