Applications; Recording Studio - Behringer Eurorack PRO RX1202FX User Manual

Even though most of the tasks in a studio can nowadays be
accomplished using a computer, a mixing console remains an
unavoidable piece of equipment that lets you effectively manage
audio inputs and outputs: microphone signals need to be pre-
amplified prior to being recorded, and the quality of microphone
sound is often worked on; recording and playback signals must
be routed to the appropriate connectors or integrated into the
mix; the volume of headphones and studio monitors needs to be
adjusted, and so on. The well-equipped main section of the
RX1202FX is extremely useful in this case.
Cabling:
Connect your sound sources to the mic or line inputs of the
mixer. Join your master machine (DAT/MD recorder) to the main
outputs. Your monitor speaker is connected to the CTRL OUT
connector, the headphones to the PHONES output. Now attach
the CD/TAPE outputs with the inputs of the sound card of your
Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Hook up the outputs of the
computer's soundcard to the CD/TAPE inputs. Connect a
headphone amplifier to the MON connector to be able to provide
performing musicians with a monitoring signal.
Record and playback:
The recording signal is preamplified in a mixer's channel,
processed with the EQ and routed back to the main bus. Determine
the recording level with the LEVEL fader. The entire level to the
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3.1 Recording studio

Fig. 3.1: The RX1202FX in a recording studio
computer is adjusted with the MAIN MIX fader. To ensure that the
signal is really being recorded, you should not listen in to the
main mix signal (i.e. the output signal of the console, prior to
recording) of the phones or control room bus. Instead, listen in to
the returned signal of the soundcard that is connected to the CD/
TAPE inputs, in which case you have a kind of read-after-write
control. In this case, press the CD/TAPE TO CTRL switch and
adjust the volume level with the PHONES/CONTROL ROOM
controller. This way you can record further tracks to an existing
playback (so-called overdubs). In the process, use the Direct
Monitoring function of your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
Determine the amount of the input signals (keyboard, guitar,
sound module and microphone) in the mono and stereo channels
that are to be sent to the MON output by using the MON controller
of the corresponding channel.
With this application, the CD/TAPE TO MIX switch
should not be pressed; otherwise, the playback
signal from the sound card output would be routed
back to the computer and would be added to the
recording. This would not only be undesirable, it
would also create a feedback loop.
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