connections and outs - question(s)

Posted on Mar 14, 2005 11:08 am
coolo
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Member Since: Jan 28, 2003

Ok, so I just bought the last bit of cables I thought I would need to get my monitors hooked up and everything nice and steady for my set up. However I'm having some problems, and any insight you guys can lend is much appreciated.

What I want to do is run from 1/2 outs on my Delta 66 to my poweramp and from there to my monitors. Ok, that works fine.

But in addition, I want to send the RCA outs from the 66 to the tape in to my mixer for monitoring while I record (and just leave the power amp off during this time). I know I could just send the 1/2 outputs from the delta to my mixer and then output from my mixer (little behringer 602A) to the poweramp, but I monitor way more than I record and plugging and unplugging the mixer everytime I want to monitor would surely drive me mad (if only the mixer had an on off switch).

Anyhow, my problem is that I can't seem to send the wav out from my computer through more than one output pair at a time. For example if I go to Windows audio controls and select the Delta 66 Multichannel as my audio playback device and I then go to the M-Audio control panel, wav out will only be output to outs 1/2. If I select Delta 66 3/4 or Delta 66 S/PDF from Windows playback, then wav out will only go through that specific pair. Ideally, I want wav out to go through 1/2 and S/PDIF at the SAME TIME!

On top of that, when I specify the wav out to go through S/PDF, my Delta 66 mixer shows output, but when I plug the cables into the tape in on my mixer (again, a Behringer 602A), I get no sound out of my mixer. I just bought a pair of phono audio cables made for home theatre setup (the box says use to connect vcr to stereo amplifier), could this be the problem (I hope not). Or is it something with the mixer that I do not understand.

Yeah, unless you guys shine some light on the situation, I have two options, both of which are super annoying to me. I can either switch the 1/2 out cables back and forth from the power amp and the mixer each time I want to record, or I can run the monitors through the mixer as was previously stated. Am I missing something guys???

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