Elektron Musical Instruments

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Thank you lepetitmartien@... for your suggestion

To answer Aaron's question: "use a splitting cable? we know the
sidstation is 1/4" -- what kind of inputs do you have on your mixer?"
Aaron J. Grier agrier@...

I currently have RCA connections on a DJ Numark mixer with only 6
channels. I am using a y-adaptor Quarter inch to RCA cable to connect to
my mixer. I use Logic Audio 5.5 however and can record the Sid Station
onto a mono channel in Logic, duplicate that channel, and then pan both
channels left and right. But some suggest just leaving the Sid Station
mono for lead or bass parts. I'd be curious to know others preference?
Ironically something as simple as a splitter box is hard for me to find
here in Austin, TX - of all places. Austin is supposed to be a music
capital so I find this ironic. It looks as though internet mail order is
my current option for a splitter box unless I am overlooking the obvious
like a local guitar shop. Behringer has the ULTRA-DI DI20 which is an
innovative active 2-channel DI-box/splitter but it has XLR outputs.
http://www.behringer.com/02_products/prodindex.cfm?id=DI20&lang=eng

Unfortunately I do not have the extra time to buy a kit and build a
splitter. So any other advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sincerely, 

Jeremy

le 22/03/2003 20:35, Jeremy Muchow à muco007@... a écrit :

> Thank you lepetitmartien@... for your suggestion

It was the "big science" suggestion and the "creative" one ;)

I should have thought of the simple split cable, it can be done usually if
you have 2-3 out to feed at max.

More will give a degenerated signal, or the Sid may even doesn't like it a
lot (to much charge to drive on the outpout). So yes you can just use a
simple split cable. :D

> I currently have RCA connections on a DJ Numark mixer with only 6
> channels. I am using a y-adaptor Quarter inch to RCA cable to connect to
> my mixer. I use Logic Audio 5.5 however and can record the Sid Station
> onto a mono channel in Logic, duplicate that channel, and then pan both
> channels left and right. But some suggest just leaving the Sid Station
> mono for lead or bass parts. I'd be curious to know others preference?
> Ironically something as simple as a splitter box is hard for me to find
> here in Austin, TX - of all places. Austin is supposed to be a music
> capital so I find this ironic. It looks as though internet mail order is
> my current option for a splitter box unless I am overlooking the obvious
> like a local guitar shop. Behringer has the ULTRA-DI DI20 which is an
> innovative active 2-channel DI-box/splitter but it has XLR outputs.
> http://www.behringer.com/02_products/prodindex.cfm?id=DI20&lang=eng

Trouble is if you look forward for a spliter box with RCA outs, you risk to
search a looooooooooong time. RCA are only used in "consumer" and DJ
markets. It has never reach professional level which prefer by far the XLR,
then the TRS, then the mono jack.

Your split cable is already a good solution. The better one is active
splitter. The splitter I found for Aaron is $69 if I remember.

Could be worse. And they sell online.

If your actual system work ok, why would you change. If it ain't brokenŠ

> Unfortunately I do not have the extra time to buy a kit and build a
> splitter. So any other advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

To make from the ground up a good active spliter would be overkill.

http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/an005.pdf

Not for the fainted of heart ;)

Denis U]

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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 01:35:06PM -0600, Jeremy Muchow wrote:

> I currently have RCA connections on a DJ Numark mixer with only 6
> channels. I am using a y-adaptor Quarter inch to RCA cable to connect
> to my mixer.

I'm not sure I understand your cabling problem.  you have a Y-adapter
with one 1/4" plug on one side, and two RCA sockets on the other?

> I use Logic Audio 5.5 however and can record the Sid Station onto a
> mono channel in Logic, duplicate that channel, and then pan both
> channels left and right.

if you have pan controls in Logic, splitting the mono signal is
redundant.  why not leave it in one channel with the pan set to center?

> But some suggest just leaving the Sid Station mono for lead or bass
> parts. I'd be curious to know others preference?

the SidStation is a mono instrument.  splitting its output in two does
not make it stereo without additional processing.

> Ironically something as simple as a splitter box is hard for me to
> find here in Austin, TX - of all places. Austin is supposed to be a
> music capital so I find this ironic. It looks as though internet mail
> order is my current option for a splitter box unless I am overlooking
> the obvious like a local guitar shop.

surely you have a radio shack in your town?  part numbers 274-880 or
274-304 are 1/4 to RCA splitters.

> Behringer has the ULTRA-DI DI20 which is an innovative active
> 2-channel DI-box/splitter but it has XLR outputs.
> http://www.behringer.com/02_products/prodindex.cfm?id=DI20&lang=eng
> 
> Unfortunately I do not have the extra time to buy a kit and build a
> splitter. So any other advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

might I suggest leaving the DJ mixer hooked to the turntables and
getting a mixer more suited for studio work?  it would appear getting
experience with a mackie 1202 (or equivalent behringer or tapco) could
teach you quite a lot about signal flow, which may also be helpful in
Logic as well.

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