Rookie: Sending a stereo signal to a mixer?

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The Mackie 1604-VLZ has all mono channels, so you need to send the
stereo signal to 2 channels on your mixer. Left to one, right to another.

Then how much of the left or right channel of the original goes to your
mix is controlled by the channel faders, and the pan pots control where
it is positioned.

ie. to hear the signal in it's original stereo, you pan the channel
receiving the right signal to the right, and the one receiving the left
signal hard left.

Dave.

T Bennett wrote:
> How would one go about sending a stereo signal to one channel of a mixer?
>
> I want to be able to pan right or left on the mixer and cut out the
> respective signal. Sometimes recordings are done using the left track is
> vocals and the right is the music (or vice versa). I'm not real experienced
> at this, and don't want to fry my board.
>
> I'm using a Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro mixer and will be coming from a Tascam
> CC-222 Mk II CD/cassette player/recorder. The Tascam has RCA jack
> (unbalanced?) ouputs.
>
> Do I need a line level converter or is it more simple than that? I'm hoping
> the latter.
>
> Thanks, Todd
> bspammed2@yahoo.com
>
>

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"T Bennett" <tbennett@celerity.net> wrote in message
news:2tle49F21ev99U1@uni-berlin.de...
> How would one go about sending a stereo signal to one channel of a mixer?
>
> I want to be able to pan right or left on the mixer and cut out the
> respective signal. Sometimes recordings are done using the left track is
> vocals and the right is the music (or vice versa). I'm not real
> experienced
> at this, and don't want to fry my board.
>
> I'm using a Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro mixer and will be coming from a Tascam
> CC-222 Mk II CD/cassette player/recorder. The Tascam has RCA jack
> (unbalanced?) ouputs.
>
> Do I need a line level converter or is it more simple than that? I'm
> hoping
> the latter.
>

The Tascam should be line level so no converter is needed. You actually have
two options, both involving a RCA-to-1/4inch-mono cord. The only difference
is how you connect them and a spare channel. A few of the channels on the
Mackie VLZ series are stereo even though they only have one fader. So you
could get the cords I mentioned and either plug the left out of the Tascam
into channel 1 of the Mackie and the right out into channel 2 (thereby
having a separate level and pan for both) or you could plug them into one of
the stereo channels (which have two 1/4" inputs, one marked left the other
right) of the Mackie (thereby having a pan control but only 1 volume
control). With the first choice (the cords using two separate channels) you
could use the left and right channels independently with both pan and
volume; panning what was once hard left and right to the center and
adjusting the volume of each track independently. The stereo channel
solution would be just like using a home stereo; the pan control would
actually balance how much of each channel you hear (so you could hear ONLY
the left or ONLY the right for example) but you couldn't change their pan
position. You could still control their volume but the volume control will
change both left and right. So it really comes down to this: do you have the
extra channel on the Mackie to spare. If so, go for the 2 cord approach.
It's much more flexible and will do every thing the stereo channel does and
more. BTW, I said "get two cords" but you can get these in a "snake" so that
the two chords (left and right) are molded together with color coded ends.
This would be your best bet, especially if you move equipment around a lot.

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:09:16 -0700, "T Bennett"
<tbennett@celerity.net> wrote:

>How would one go about sending a stereo signal to one channel of a mixer?

Make up a Y-cable.

>
>I want to be able to pan right or left on the mixer and cut out the
>respective signal. Sometimes recordings are done using the left track is
>vocals and the right is the music (or vice versa). I'm not real experienced
>at this, and don't want to fry my board.

In that case, you'll have to send it to two channels of the mixer.
Once combined into one channel, you have no control over the original
R and L components.

If you're always going to want JUST R or L channel from the tape, you
could do it with one cable into one channel. Only connect the
required output.


>
>I'm using a Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro mixer and will be coming from a Tascam
>CC-222 Mk II CD/cassette player/recorder. The Tascam has RCA jack
>(unbalanced?) ouputs.
>
>Do I need a line level converter or is it more simple than that? I'm hoping
>the latter.

Plug directly into the Line Inputs of a couple of channels. You'll
need rca > 1/4" lack plug cables.

If you use the rca Tape In jacks on the Mackie you'll have no
individual control over R and L channels.


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Wow! Thanks to everyone for the help.


"T Bennett" <tbennett@celerity.net> wrote in message
news:2tle49F21ev99U1@uni-berlin.de...
> How would one go about sending a stereo signal to one channel of a mixer?
>
> I want to be able to pan right or left on the mixer and cut out the
> respective signal. Sometimes recordings are done using the left track is
> vocals and the right is the music (or vice versa). I'm not real
experienced
> at this, and don't want to fry my board.
>
> I'm using a Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro mixer and will be coming from a Tascam
> CC-222 Mk II CD/cassette player/recorder. The Tascam has RCA jack
> (unbalanced?) ouputs.
>
> Do I need a line level converter or is it more simple than that? I'm
hoping
> the latter.
>
> Thanks, Todd
> bspammed2@yahoo.com
>
>