Beginner Sound Setup

[squidot]

bring extra speaker wire and duct tape, duct tape down all the wires everywhere.. if its a wire, it needs to be taped.

don't use duct tape. use gaffers tape...that's what it's made for. duct tape can strip paint off walls and can leave a residue.

[dorkimoe]

got all the equipment i need minus the microphone

only question is the cueing in headphones now. Do i plug into the mixer with my headphones? Or do i need to figure out how to get the soundcard to work with the mixer? Because right now if i plug into the mixer i can hear whats playing in the speaker but cant figure out how to get the seperate channel. Do i need to plug into a channel on the mixer or the headphone thing?

[D-Kem]

You will need to use your soundcard and set the internal outputs appropriately in Traktor. The Audio 2 has 2 stereo outputs so one for main and one for monitor (plug you headphones in to the audio 2 out out you selected for monitor).

[dorkimoe]

ok i figured it was just some setting that is messed up. i didnt have much time to mess with it last night. I will work with it tonight

I would hit the headphone button on the controller to put that channel in my ears and it would make the speakers louder, and then i would turn the little volume nob for the headphones up and it controlled the speakers. I will report back, I need to reinstall the drivers and just start from scratch probably.

thanks

[loverocket]

you need to grasp the concept of audio signals. Stereo means 2 channels (usually left and right)
Your four channel soundcard has 4 outputs. But, each output has 2 conductors.
Your CUE output (headphones) has Channel 1 (right signal and common shield) and Channel 2 (left signal and common shield).
Your MASTER output has Channel 3 (right signal and common shield) and Channel 4 (left signal and common shield).

Each headphone driver and each speaker takes one (two conductor) channel.

Don't ever use a stereo cable (3 conductors) as a speaker cable. *Unless you are going balanced outputs and that you will learn about later.

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[dorkimoe]

my soundcard has 2 outputs though

[loverocket]

What soundcard do you have?

[dorkimoe]

audio2

i think i have it working so far. I had to re-install traktor. It gets messed up when you do so many changes sometimes. Now its working, it seems a little quieter then when I was going without the soundcard, but still loud enough.

now i just need to get a mic, and the 2nd speaker.

For the second speaker, i assume i just hook it up just like the first one, but the back of the sub on the left input looks different then the right input?

[loverocket]

A 4 channel soundcard has 2 sets of outputs. So don't get confused. Every generic laptop soundcard has 2 channels (left and right). That's just a simple stereo signal. Your mom and dad have two channel soundcards.

[loverocket]

You said you had one speaker and you are getting another speaker. What's the subwoofer talk about?
What kind of speaker(s) do you have?
What kind of inputs on the back of the speaker(s)? RCA, 1/4 inch, XLR, Speakon?
Are the powered? (Have AC power and amplifiers in them)

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