VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Donna]

This has probably been discussed before, but the excess pollen in my head has fried my internal search circuits (not to mention my command of language).

Can you use a phone patch thingy (like a Comrex TCB1A) with a M-Audio FastTrack Pro thingy?

I'm still putting my first studio together, can you tell? It's very simple, as am I, and so far it goes like this:

Mic -- M-Audio --- computer. But I have no elegant way for producer to give direction or monitor a session. I don't really want to go with a phone headset at this point, but I'm open to all suggestions!

[Eddie Eagle]

Hi Donna,
There should be an output on the MAudio and you run a cord from it to the mic or aux input on the patch. The patch may have headset jack or you can monitor through the maudio. Your phone handset line would plug into the patch also.

Best on your setup

[Mike Sommer]

Eddie is correct on this one, though pulling from the headphone of M-Audio could have an impedance problem, but then maybe not.

What should be happening is that you should incorporate a good mixer in the chain ( like a Soundcraft mixer the Spirit M Series is a good start
http://www.soundcraft.com/product_sheet.asp?product_id=24) this way you can take what ever audio you have and direct it to where ever you want it to go, and have control over it.
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[Donna]

Thanks, guys. I guess I could try it with just the m-audio, but it does seem like a mixer will make life just a little easier. There's a Yahama MX 12/4 sitting in the basement with nothing to do right now, so I'll mess with that and see how it goes!

[Donna]

And welcome to the board, Mike!

[TheVoiceOfBob]

Another thing the mixer gives you is the ability to not have the phone patch as your chain for all your audio.
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[Mike Sommer]

Watch out for those Yamaha's they will give you ear fatigue and ringing ear drums, and there Pre's aren't to great either, but it's a good start for now.

Thank you for sending out the welcome wagon.
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[Jon Morss]

Donna,

I agree that a mixer would give you more flexibility. I use a Mackie 1202-VLZ with a JK Audio Phone Patch and I am able to take direction while recording my voice clean on one track and the entire phone conversation on another track via the Alt 3/4 bus on the VLZ. This way I can reference the direction if I need to make any corrections in the recording. Also, I send my mic signal to the Phone Patch via the VLZ Aux 1 output so the client can hear what I am recording. It has worked pretty good for me so far.

Jon

[Donna]

Jon, I really like the idea of recording the phone conversation--anything so I don't have to rely on my increasingly unreliable memory! Thank you for explaining it in a way I can actually understand.

Mike, could you elaborate on the ear fatigue from the Yamaha mixer, please? Does it add any mud to the signal?


Thanks!
Donna

[Eddie Eagle]

Donna,
You probably already figured it out, but if not, you can record the phone conversation by running a cable from the patch's Aux out to a channel input in the M Audio. That way you have you and your other party on the recording.
cheers
Eddie

[Mike Sommer]