Hi peeps, in a little bit of trouble here, hope u guys can help heres my prob i have a behringer xenyx 1222fx and a e-mu 1212m soundcard, i plan to record acoustic guitars and so i would need to plug my headphones into the mixer to monitor my mix, if i were to use the monitor speakers it will bleed into the mic during recording, the problem is how do i connect my soundcard to the mixer to enable a flexible monitoring via studio monitors and headphones? million thanks!
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With your current setup you will only be able to use 2 inputs at a time. I know that the 1212m allows for 12 simultaneous inputs but you would need an Analogue to Digital converter with ADAT Lightpipe. My first inclination is to tell you to ditch that Behr.... Actually, I still think you should sell it. It won't function as a control surface so it is essentially useless AFAIC. You need to look for an A/D converter with lightpipe. Because of what I presume to be your budget this is probably what would suit you best:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHADA8000
One step up:
http://www.frontendaudio.com/M_Audio_Octane_8_Channel_Preamp_and_A_D_Converter_p/5983.htm
There are better units out there but they run into the thousands of dollars.
For your purposes currently you'll need to make due. What I would do is get a single 1/4" TRS to dual mono TS jack. Go from the SEND to the 1212m and from the outs on the 1212m to the aux return on the mixer. On the channel you will need to pan your channels hard left and right respectively in order to make sure they go to their own separate tracks. This is probably the only way you will be able to avoid a feedback loop on this "gem" of a mixer. Monitors should plug into the Main out and headphones to the phones jack. That should work.
Conversely you could buy two of these cables and set up your monitoring "in line" using the inserts as sends/returns from the mixer to the EMU via 1/4" TRS to dual 1/4" TS jacks. You would not be sending effects or eq to disk however. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Keep in mind though that you would only be able to send those two channels to the EMU. All the other channels would be rendered moot. So you wouldn't be able to do submixes of drums to disk. Again, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.
Of course you will only be able to record to two tracks at a time.
Ideally you want the AD converter and the mixer again using the inserts as your send/return point. This would be the most logical way to set it up.
Just a note. I edited this for consistency. Hopefully it will make better sense.
