Re: [LAU] Advice for buying speakers

From: Arnold Krille <arnold@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Sep 07 2007 - 19:56:52 EEST

Am Freitag, 7. September 2007 schrieb Frank Barknecht:
> Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote:
> > But such a thing is important. One could argue that you don't need one
> > with an external (hifi-)amp but a small mixer lets you use different
> > sources at the same time or offers ways of monitoring, talk-back and the
> > like (in the case of the C-Control or its behringer-pendant).
> With small mixers one should to be careful to choose a model that has
> additional independent outputs to connect your soundcard's inputs to
> ("Sub mix" or "ALT 3-4"). Otherwise you're bound to get feedback loops
> when recording. Many small mixers lack these outputs. The Compact4 and
> the HDR6 are example for mixers, that do have them, though.

Hmm, I am not recording from that mixer. Its just for the last stage before
something hits my speakers. Even the monitoring for the musicians is before
that mixer (got enough outputs on my firepod to feed an 4-stereo headphone
amp :-P ).

My line-mixer here to mix my pc (normal background music) and cd-player and
the firepod and its more a convenience to not replug cables everytime.

And during recording (real instruments, not "frank_barknecht_pd_style" ;) I
turn off the speakers because of the feedback and noise. That is what
headphones are for.

You should not record from a mixer but connect the sources as direct to the
A/D-converters as possible. Unless your mixer has better preamps than your
card of course.

Arnold

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