Mixing outside "the box"

Posted on Apr 07, 2007 08:31 am
Loki
Cone Poker
Member Since: Apr 07, 2002

Okey, having a weird issue here...

I am running 4 tracks out of cubase into an external mixer thusly:

Track 1 - Output 1 of Delta 44 - Input 1 Mixer
Track 2 - Output 2 of Delta 44 - Input 2 Mixer
Track 3 - Output 3 of Delta 44 - Input 3 Mixer
Track 4 - Output 4 of Delta 44 - Input 4 Mixer

the mixer is routed back into the computer thusly:

Main out 1, Input 1 Delta 44
Main out 2, Input 2 Delta 44

The armed tracks to record back are set:

Input - Mono In 1 (delta 44)
Input - Mono In 2 (delta 44)

On the armed to record tracks, no output is set at this point.

First Issue:
When the sound is hitting the desk it is clipping badly. This was resolved simply by turning down the Main Bus in cubase, but now, even with the desk almost hitting the red, the recorded sound is rather low. Guess I can work around this by just normalizing the tracks.

Issue Two:
For some reason I am getting weird bleed. Like for instance Guitar is track one, and Vox are track two. When I raise the fader on the desk for track 1 it is playing back both guitar and vox, and track 2 on the mixer is vox alone. I don't get this one because everything is sent to it's own channel on the desk.

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