On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:26:41PM -0500, KS wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > many mixing boards have two outputs: 1 for the mains and 1 for the > > monitors. The levels can generally be controlled seperately for these > > two channels. If you have that capability, I would recommend you use > > the monitor output for recording as you can then control the levels > > hitting the sound card. You can effectively have two mixes then, one > > for the amplifier and one for recording. ignore me if you already know > > this :) > > > > A > > Thanks for the info. As I don't know much about mixers, I was trying to > know what the various outputs meant and I actually had no idea for the > "monitor" outputs :) I'm getting to know the mixer bit-by-bit. It is a > Electro-Voice BK-1232 Stereo Mixer and not much documentation was > available for it on the web. > drifting more and more OT, but... most mixers have two main sets of outputs. one called "main" and one called "monitor". Generally, each input channel will have a knob for controlling its level in the monitors which is seperate from its level in the mains (that one is generally the big slider at the bottom of each input channel). Sometimes there is also a set of sliders for controlling overall monitor level too. hth A
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