MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Sound card + outboard mixer = great

> 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.

After trying various things I discovered that the mute button for each channel on the mixer doubles as a button to send that channel to an "alt" stereo output. So I hooked that up to the line input on the Audigy. Pretty cool, press the button and the channel is muted but at the same time the signal goes to the sound card. Pan hard to select which channel. Then, when doing line-in recordings, we could monitor the signal coming back from the sound card through the main speakers without getting feed back.

> 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.

Cool, I would love to have something like that to play with...the Saffire 6 that I bought doesn't have any digital inputs. But unlike the Audiophile it does have switchable hi-gain inputs so I'm set. I'm itching to get my hands on it!

On the attached song I recorded the guitar straight from the line outputs on the guitarist's effects board, that was the easiest way. It's just like you said, the guitar sounded flat and boring when plugged it into the mixer. I suppose it could work out okay for some rhythm guitar or picking stuff though.

On another song I miked his amp to one channel and ran a line out from the amplifier to the other, then played around for ages blending the two until I got something I liked. We were in the same room and I only had a single pair of junk headphones so we had to record and stop to listen (rinse, repeat) many times until we found the right settings and mic positions. It took forever.

On every track that was recorded with a microphone (except the drum tracks) you can hear bleed through from the headphones!

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