Hooking up a Mixer to a computer

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:05 am

my friend stumbled across an old behringer mixer thats got like 24 tracks on it and we're excited to fuck with it but i have no idea how to hook it up to a computer to do some recording. does anyone know anything about these things? Right now i'm thinking getting like a box that sends XLR to USB and then just hooking it up through USB but im not sure if that will work.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:06 am

At the very, very least you can use an RCA-to-Stereo-1/8" cord and run it from the "Tape Out" of your mixer into the stereo input of your soundcard. I did that with great effect for years. USB interfaces tend to be cleaner in my opinion (and often allow you to record more tracks at a time than just two-track stereo).

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:10 am

midi-man makes a nice 4 channel interface for a decent price.

note* install a 2nd dedicated sound card for the interface or it will audio lag really bad.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:24 pm

thanks dudes

so i could just take something like this http://www.midiman.com/products/en_us/F ... Ultra.html and plug the main board into one of the XLR jacks?

basstard · Post by **basstard** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:03 am

Acid Flashbakc wrote:thanks dudes so i could just take something like this http://www.midiman.com/products/en_us/F ... Ultra.html and plug the main board into one of the XLR jacks?

Yes you can, you can get a cheaper interface that would do the same