2box + mixer + instruments home setup guidelines

[crackettt]

Hi everyone,

I'm no specialist when it comes to sound engineering and home-studio setup, but I recently had to set up a bunch of instruments at home for the first time and had to do a fair bit of homework to understand how it all works at the most basic level.

I wrote down everything I learnt along the way in plan, which I thought might be of help to other rookies out there.

If you happen to be good at this stuff, don't hesitate to let me know if I made any mistakes or if you have a tip you want to share.

There's a listing of my gear and associated manuals at the start so you'll have to scroll down page a or so/

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s13/sh/bb9502a8-c4d5-40d6-ab37-e2aa074f45d3/3822d968ce38f45caf0409cdec58626d

Cheers,

Tof 

[mcrackins]

Nice work on that. Some useful info in there. Thanks

[Coda]

I found this thread after searching for some pertinent info, I'm about to do the same thing. I found your notes useful, and at the very least I will do an evernote too for all my gear and setup.
One thing I noticed is that your jgp of your equipment says "Balanced Input" on the 2box. This isn't correct, but I am assuming you just meant it takes a TRS (Stereo) jack.

[crackettt]

I honestly don't remember buddy, I wrote this note a little while back. I did mark the output as unbalanced (blue circle) using a balanced lead (TRS - red).

I actually now have the laptop rigged to the mixing table as opposed to the 2-box, and always use balanced leads across the board.  Either I meant that input on the 2box was balanced, or that the signal coming out of the computer's sound card was balanced. But I couldn't tell you whether either statement is true or false.

Thanks for the feedback though, and I'm very happy indeed it helped someone!

[Coda]

Well you inspired me to write up my planned studio setup in Evernote. It's still a WIP but this is the gist of what I want to do, not everything I have is connected up on the diagram, and I plan to build some midi controlled synths in the future (which is the reason for the 6 out midi through box )
https://www.evernote.com/l/AA54itTM2gROGIskOR9BRiMSa7C6MfRIF5M