how to wire in monitors from pc through my mixer

Lakeland · 27 Jan 2006 at 22:35

ive just got myself some new monitors for mixing/producing with and i want them to be connect to my pc and mixer. i have a djm600 mixer so there is no shortage of channels to have a cable running from the pc but im not sure what my options are (if there are any other)

ive not got a soundcard so i would need one of them cant spend much more than £100, i need to be able to connect my decks to my sound card to record mixes aswell. i do use my pc for playing games on but i dont want to sacrifice music quality for gaming.

Lakeland · 28 Jan 2006 at 19:20

anyone got an idea?

glitch · 29 Jan 2006 at 00:05

Active or passive speakers?

Lakeland · 29 Jan 2006 at 00:59

thanks for the reply. they are active. at the minute ive got them connected to my mixer through xlr cables, there is still an aux and 1/4" jack input but im not sure if i can use two differant inputs at the same time?

my first thought was to have the output of the pc to go in a spare channel of the mixer but this would mean leaving the mixer on when im on the pc which i dont really want to do

Things change I've changed · 29 Jan 2006 at 01:19

the way i have it is, sound card L&R out into 3.5mm jack spliter, so effectively I have two 3.5mm female jacks for my L&R sound out, I use one jack for my logitech speakers for gaming and generale music listening,

the other jack I connect a 3.5mm jack to L&R phono up to my mixer into any of your channels , I have my monitors plugged in my mixer using the balanced tsr/xlr outputs. Your decks are plugged into your mixer right?,

then output the rec out of your mixer to the line in on your sound card, I myelf have done it like this, I also have the master L&R phono out of my mixer plugged into my hi-fi stack so I can get a good idea of what it will sound like through a hi-fi and also it's handy for thumping music out as we all know monitors are only really designed for just music reproduction,

this setup enables me to listen to my vst's and music software on my monitors from my pc througth the mixer, also it will enable you to listen to your decks throuth the monitors througth just the mixer or througth the mixer, througth the pc (for recording) then back out to the mixer to the monitors again, and,

if you want you can add a standerd set of pc speakers to the secound 3.5mm jack like I have so then you can just switch off your mixer and switch on your gaming speakers for sourround sound gaming, (if you are going to use a 5.1 speaker setup then you can have the L&R rear and C&SUB jacks coming straight from the sound card to your speakers, its only the front L&R that have to be routed from the spliter, this is so I don't have to use my mixer all the time to listen to the pc, lol

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this setup may not work for you as it all depends on your personal needs, setups can be very unique to each user.