Hi folks,
I'm in the process of putting my home studio together, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting two-way communication between my Mackie 24*8 bus mixing board, and a Tascam US-16x08.
I have limited experience with mixing boards, but a friend sold me the Mackie for "an offer I couldn't refuse".
I have tried patching channels 1 and 2 out from the Tascam into numerous line ins on the Mackie, but not getting anything from my monitors (connected to the Control Room outs, which work as a standalone without the interface). Ideally I would like all 8 channels of the Tascam to be connected to the 8 buses of the Mackie, but I cannot figure out how to achieve this.
If anyone wants to give a newbie some advice, it would be greatly appreciated
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Thanks Hawk! No separate rooms yet - in the process of cleaning
Thanks Hawk!
No separate rooms yet - in the process of cleaning out the basement to put the studio in. Right now the gear is upstairs in a small spare room.
I think part of my problem may be my use of TS jacks instead of TRS jacks thus far. Now off to try and find some TRSs...
Cheers.
The Control Room and ¼" Main Mix outputs are unbalanced TRS - so
The Control Room and ¼" Main Mix outputs are unbalanced TRS - so it shouldn't matter. The channels, Direct Outs, are true balanced TRS ins and outs. The manual will help.
The combination of buttons pressed can completely derail what you're doing. I have an 8-bus around here in storage that I used to use quite a bit. Mackie had provided a lot of capability, like doubling your inputs for mix down, and a live B-Mix, and clones of the output buses (which was pretty ambitious for an affordable board), but all the routing buttons can be confusing - or easily pressed accidentally.
Do you have a separate control room and tracking room? If not,
Do you have a separate control room and tracking room?
If not, I'd start with the basic live stereo mix before you get into the more confusing "Flip" buttons and B-Mix options.
I think that should get you started. If that goes well, then you can advance to the bonus round of "Hooking up the Buses and Tape Returns"
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Good luck!