profire2626 setup question

[midknight]

Hi Everyone,

I have an m-audio profire2626 and a behringer ecm8000 mic, and I'm wondering if it possible to use REW with my gear. The manual talks about being able to use an ecm8000 (ok, good there) but it talks about using soundcards with rca ins/outs (rut roh!, the profire is a firewire device with 8 ins/outs).

Would anyone have any suggestions on proper hookup for this scenario?

thanks!

[Anthony]

Welcome to the Shack.

Don't sweat it about no RCA ins/outs. I have an M-Audio MobilePre and use a variety of cables and adapters to get it into my system.

One is the line out (stereo 1/8" plug) to rca stereo splitter. Another is a 1/4" tip/sleeve to RCA adapter on the mono line out and then use an RCA cable to the system preamp.

Then you have to fiddle with levels to get everything nice and balanced, but that doesn't take long.

Good luck.

[Anthony]

Here's some links:

Adapter: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...number=090-285
Splitter cable: http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...number=181-592

[midknight]

I appreciate the links, however neither the ecm8000 or the profire2626 have rca's, so I'm not sure why I would want to convert to that.

The profire has 1/4" and xlr connectors, and the ecm8000 has xlr as well.

So currently I have the ecm8000 plugged into input 3 (which is the left channel of inputs 3/4 respectively), and the firewire out feeds into the puter.. would I then want to run the input 4(xlr) into the main output 1 (1/4" left channel of main output 1 & 2) ?

Sorry if I'm being dense, it's just a bit confusing to me.

thanks for your assistance!
-Nick

[brucek]

neither the ecm8000 or the profire2626 have rca's, so I'm not sure why I would want to convert to that

The assumption was that you would be feeding a receiver with the line-out signal of the profire2626 and so would require RCA at that end.

Anyway, first you need to do the soundcard calibration. This requires a single cable from line-out to line-in of the profire2626 . Use whatever connector/cable it requires to do that. Run the soundcard calibration routine to create the file and save it, with REW pointing to it. Then remove the cable.

Then simply feed the mic-in of the profire2626 with the ECM and feed the line-out of the profire2626 to your receiver.

BTW, hopefully this isn't a Mac computer you're using, because firewire and Mac don't mix.....

brucek

[Anthony]

Yeah, the RCA suggestion was for feeding the receiver.

I second what Bruce said about just doing a calibration 1/4" mono (tip sleeve) from output to input, run the cal, save and remove. Then plug the mic back into input 3 and turn on phantom power.

As for feeding the receiver, those 1/4" tip sleeve to RCA adapter would work, or if you have a full rack mounted pro setup, you probably already have the speakers fed from the 2626, so disregard.

Good luck.

[midknight]

Hey Everyone,

After messing around with it for a while, I'm still not really getting it to work correctly, so I have put together a quick graphic of my setup. Could one of you fine gentlemen here tell me if this hookup diagram is correct? Thanks!

-Nick

[brucek]

I don't really understand the diagram with four color cables?

As discussed before - to do the soundcard calibration, hook a single cable from right line-out to right line-in. When finished, remove that cable.

Then, to measure, feed the mic-in of the profire2626 with the ECM and feed the right line-out of the profire2626 to your receiver.

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