So i have been doing a few more college gigs with a friend of mine who owns a Hercules. We almost ran into a big problem yesterday because he left his Hercules at his dorm. This was a problem because we used that as our mixer to plug my stuff into to hit his active speakers. Currently my “small” set up consists of my laptop/vci/NIaudio2. My problem is that i do not have a mic input if im running alone nor do i have the ability to directly plug into active speakers (unless i made a unique y cable for stereo trs to two mono trs)
Im looking for a small mixer that would be able to fit with the rest of my stuff in a bigger backpack that would allow me to:
Having a small micro mixer can be handy if your laptop crashes too, as you can quickly switch to an external device such as an ipod whilst its rebooting!
That said, given what you’ve described, I don’t think you need a mixer. Your laptop has no mic in socket at all ?
You can easily output from a sound card directly to an amp or active speakers, or accept input from a mic (assuming a line in socket) using some simple phono to line style cables and xlr adapters on the end.
get an audio 4 and use a deck as a mic input and just buy the proper cables or make them yourself this is assuming you use traktor pro. i m pretty sure this will work. do a little research. there are many ways to do this. are you using four decks? you could always just prepare what you want to say with a mic directly into the computer and play them when needed. i would recommend any pioneer or a&h that suits your needs. this is an investment that you want to last and you want good sound quality. if you get a mixer mix external and use the eqs on the vci for automated effects however you will only be able to use 2 decks with an audio 2. if you got the money get something that is certified and expand.
behringer DI-20 is a DI box which could work for you. it will change an unbalanced signal into a balanced XLr which can go into the back of your PA speakers.
Does the behringer eurorack convert the signal to a balanced one?
Have any of you used the samson? Im not sure if would do what im looking for, the inputs are left and right channels and i dont see anywhere to change it to mono. Thus inputing a mic on this unit would only generate sound out of one channel?
to do it right you would need a small mixer (like that behringer one) + a DI box, i’m pretty sure denon makes a smaller mixer with balanced outs (only one iv’e seen). The other smaller mixer is the xone 22 with xlr out..
witch behringer mixer, if you’re talking about the smaller ones, they don’t. I have one my self, its -10 unbalanced 1/4".
For the guy who asked about the DI box, it coverts -10db unbalanced signal to a +4db balanced signal that PA use. If you don’t use a DI box in this case, the audio will be noticeably weaker.