Spent the money now stuck EM-U 0404USB

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Ok,
I have my decks all set up with my Numark DXM09 mixer Spec here: http://www.numark.com/dxm09

I have recently added a CDj (Denon DNS1000) and I was happy until I had a thought of PC Djing.

I bought a new Laptop, Dell XPS1530 and copied all my music over from my desktop PC and I bought the EM-U 0404 USB sound card / Audio interface.
http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&product=15185

There are three main things I want to do with this set up:

1.) Record all my vinyl to Mp3
2.) Record my mixing attempts:p
3.) A spot of PC Dj ing.

The thing is....I can't figure out how to hook the EM-U to the mixer, it has no phono connections for outputs ? And my Mixer only has Phono inputs (Line and Phono) ??:confused:
The EM-U has Balanced sockets, but my mixer only has these as outputs...I don't think the data can travel both ways?

So, the picture is like this:

Laptop--------[USB]----->EM-U----??? Mixer

I have spent around £900 and I must be missing something ?:confused:

Advice most welcome guys:o
 
Noufas said:
does your card has rca outputs? or even the normal minijack would be fine
http://www.8dim.com/img/hardware/mini-jack-rca.jpg

connect that to the card (like you would connect your speakers if you didnt have the mixer) and then to the mixer (on the 3rd channel for example)
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hey Noufas, thanks for the reply.

I don't think it has RCa outputs, it has S/Pdif, Midi (no use here) a headphone socket and the balanced outputs using 1/4 jacks, these would be fine as mixer outputs but not sound card out put??...I also have 1/8 headphone jack which slits into 2 to Phono-phono plugs (red and white) I might try that....it just doesn't seem right to me, I am scared I wil make something go BANG !!!:eek:
 
Excellent guys thank you so much, I was wondering if I had bought the wrong card....I will order the shortest possible, I think 1.5M is the shortest,,,go for best quality ?:confused:
I will report back with pics and a review when I get it all up and running:cool:
 
well I bought the detailed leads above and hooked them up...no joy.
I can no longer play any Mp3 files in Windows media player either...Default sound unit (the 0404) cited as the problem....this is getting a little frustrating now :(
 
Hey Simisker, thanks for the reply.

The files in Windows media player just don't play, they flash and a red cross appears in front of the file name and then an error dialog box flashes up.
This is with the latest Vista drivers and software from the EM-U site.

I bought 2 of the 1/4inch Jack to Phono leads

and hooked them up tot the L & R outputs on the EM-U unit the other end I placed into the Line input of my mixer.

The EM-U was correctly listed as a device in device manager or when you go into Audio in control panel. There was no sound coming from the laptop at all when I hooked up the sound card it only worked when I disabled the device.

I have followed the manual and I just can't seem to get going :(

I will do it all again from scratch and take some pics and see if it helps, can it be that even the latest Vista drivers are problematic ?
Or am I not supposed to be able to play music direct from Media player through my mixer ? Perhaps its a software thing and I need to assign channels in a dj software system ?:confused:
 
Finally sorted this out last night.
Turned out that the onboard sound drivers wiere conflicting with the EM-U vista drivers.
Removed them and rebooted, installed EM-U software again and hey presto !!
Majic.

Now for some DJ PC software to bang out some Tunes !! :D
 
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