What do you guys think?

[85Dave]

Is there a better way to set up my sound system?

Right now I have a pair of 4ohm speakers on the desktop computer with a 100W driver tuner/amp, a desktop with sound blaster Live sound card, Yamaha MG 10/2 mixer, and a Behringer KX1200 amp for those loud jam sessions.

All of this stays in the studio as I mainly record.

Heres the layout.

- Instruments all go to the mixer.
- From there they go from the "Rec out" on the mixer with the RCA ports which leads to an adapter going to the "Line in" on my desktops sound card.
- The "ST Out" on the mixer goes to the KX1200 for any monitoring when I record.

There's a L and R output for powered studio monitors like on my desktop but I don't use them currently. The sound from my computer goes from the speaker out port to the RCA jacks on the amp/tuner which leads sound out the 4ohm studio speakers.

When I turn sounds on I can hear music come out the desktop monitors as well as my KX1200 amp if I turn it on.


I'm just wondering if theres any better way to set this all up so I can hear whats playing from the computer when I'm looping and recording over tracks with it.

I guess I could feed from the output of the amp/tuner and go to the "2TR" RCA jacks on the mixer board. This is on it's own line level so I could adjust it's volume so I could hear it but on the other hand that would send the signal from the computer back out to the computer which would rerecord whats already recorded.

What I really need is a port that takes in audio from RCA jacks and sends it just to the headphone port but not the record out jacks

Heres the mixer's manual

http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/...rs/MG10_2E.pdf

I follow pages 19 and 21 from that book mostly for the wiring

[Nubus]

feed the computer with an aux, no?

[85Dave]

well ive got the input to the computer with the Record out as it should be according to the manual.

im just wondering how i can get audio back just to the headphone port on the mixer...

[Nubus]

try sending the aux to the computer, then you can send whatever channels you want into the computer by just turning up aux on whatever channel you want to record. You could still monitor everything through headphones, but the recording tracks won't be making a feedback loop.

[85Dave]

great plan, thanks ill try it

[Ol'boy rivers]

I'm a tone junky, So I won't say much more than that. It sounds like an awesome setup, What ever gets the volume out. ( I should shoot myself for saying that. )

[Matthew]

I would get an 1/8 in. splitter for the output of your computer's sound card and come out to the speakers the way it is now, and use the other output to go to one of the 1/4 inch jacks on your mixer. You can then plug up your headphones to the monitor send and get the levels like you want them and keep the fader down on the computer send. That way your getting what you want to hear in the headphones and your also getting back to your computer what you want to record without the added sounds that have already been recorded.


Just read some of the posts after typing this, and its the same thing that Nubus said...just backwards.