Sound Card Question! Audio 6 or Audio 10
Sound Card Question! Audio 6 or Audio 10 Posted on: 31.12.2012 by Sherman Goolsby Ive got a Behringer 6 Channel mixer and need to purchase an audio interface to mix/cue at the same time. Is the Audio 6 going to be enough for just the 4 channels on the mixer? i dont use a mic. | |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | Ive got a Behringer 6 Channel mixer and need to purchase an audio interface to mix/cue at the same time. Is the Audio 6 going to be enough for just the 4 channels on the mixer? i dont use a mic. |
| Ninfa Mazariegos 01.01.2013 | Post a wanted ad in the buy and sell section. You won't be able to use any other brand soundcard for traktor scratch. I got my audio 10 for a decent price off craigslist. |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | awesome, thanks guys! only other question is, what is another comparable audio interface compared to it? Seems to b pretty hard to find and i dont see a need, nor have the money for the Audio 10. |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | Yes. You would have to record using an external app such as audacity or audition. If you don't plan on using all 4 channels i would set the input routing for deck d to your rec out, and set the deck to direct thru on the dropdown menu. In the settings you change the recording type to external recording and you are away. As i have the audio 6 and only use 2 channels, its easy enough i can just plug into the front to set up for recordings. |
| Antonetta Wikel 31.12.2012 | Yup |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | So with the Audio 8 i could theoretically run all my channels through the back outputs of the sound card, and one from the REC OUT from the mixer to the front inputs and record it? |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | Thats what we're here for mate. |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | I was also looking at the ESI Gigaport HD+ just not sure what's going to work best. Sorry for all the questions! |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | What i do is run an rca from the REC OUT to an input on the soundcard. |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | I see the Audio 8 has all RCA connectors so it would work perfect. I'm going to run my speakers from the "mix 2 out" into a basic surround sound system, just a 1/4" to RCA on that one. My main question is, would buying the Audio 8 and all cables/adapters needed allow me to fully utilize all my hardware? As far as cueing, using EQ's on each mixer deck/traktor deck separately instead of through just the one, and record it all? Or am i going to miss out on recording? |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | Nope, RCA's are fine. Its just the speaker outputs from the mixer you may need adaptors for. I see on the 606 you can either use XLR cables or TRS. Depending on what speakers you have using a TRS>RCA adaptor may be the way to go, XLR's are for PA systems. |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | Okay got it. So if i got the Audio 8 or Audio 10 i would just need 1/4" to RCA cables to run into my mixer, since my line/phone inputs on the mixer are RCAand the input/output on the interface are 1/4"? |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | here you can see we have 2 chanels used for cdj's and 2 channels from my audio 6 routed into the mixer. the sky is the limit how you want to go really |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | you plug the rca outputs from the soundcard into a channel strip on the mixer. for example with the audio 6, you can use 3 channel strips on the mixer. you set the mixing mode in the software to external and you use the mixer itself to do your eqing, monitoring etc. with an audio 8 you can use 4 and audio 10 you can use 5 and so on. |
| Sherman Goolsby 31.12.2012 | The lines on the back of my mixer are RCA so does that limit me to only RCA 4in/4out sound cards? kinda confused because i bought the mixer with the intention of it being built in, turns out i cna't use 3 decks or cue anything. |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | ^ what Krosis up there said |
| Latoria Kavulich 31.12.2012 | Hey mate, unless you plan on mixing 4 decks externally the audio 6 would suit you. (3 decks external) |
| Nedra Fresneda 31.12.2012 | You can only get 3 stereo channels out of the A6, if using 4 is imperative then buy a A8 or A10. |
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