Thanks brucek for answering my previous post so quickly. I thought that ASIO drivers might be the problem. I put this on a new thread and title so maybe more folks would read it.
I've installed a music venue that I need to voice ASAP; it's my main reason for researching these RTA programs. We're using a Peavy PV20-USB mixing board for the two channel house sound and two channel stage monitors, with Behringer EQs in each channel. Windows immediately recognizes the board as a USB sound device without loading any drivers or anything and I'm able to record and playback to it from a laptop with no problems so it must use a WDM driver. I'm assuming that it should do the trick with REW. I've got an ECM8000on the way and can plug it into one of the phantom powered mic channels on stage for EQing the monitor system, and take it out into the audience area with a long cable for doing the main system...
Oops!, I think I just realized that what I was planning to do won't work after all since the only output from the board to USB is the final mix, not individual channels. OK, so I'll use a little Sound Blaster SB0270 that I have, connect it to the laptop, run it's output to a line in on the board for the sweep or pink noise signal to the system, then pull only the ECM8000 mic channel off the board using the insert jack or effects out jack (keeping it turned off from the main and monitor systems) and run that to a line in on the Sound Blaster. That way I'm getting phantom power and preamplification from the board without having to have a separate preamp.
Sorry about getting so long-winded here, but I thought I'd leave in all of that first part I was typing, just in case anybody else had thought along those same lines.
Anywho, if anybody has followed me this far, am I getting way off base here, or do you think this would work? Has anybody here done anything like this before and do you have any advice? This place I'm doing is pretty far from home and way out in the sticks so I need to have everything I need when I go back, and I can't spend a lot on preamps and power supplies and stuff (cables, I've got or can make).
Thanks, Mike
I've installed a music venue that I need to voice ASAP; it's my main reason for researching these RTA programs. We're using a Peavy PV20-USB mixing board for the two channel house sound and two channel stage monitors, with Behringer EQs in each channel. Windows immediately recognizes the board as a USB sound device without loading any drivers or anything and I'm able to record and playback to it from a laptop with no problems so it must use a WDM driver. I'm assuming that it should do the trick with REW. I've got an ECM8000on the way and can plug it into one of the phantom powered mic channels on stage for EQing the monitor system, and take it out into the audience area with a long cable for doing the main system...
Oops!, I think I just realized that what I was planning to do won't work after all since the only output from the board to USB is the final mix, not individual channels. OK, so I'll use a little Sound Blaster SB0270 that I have, connect it to the laptop, run it's output to a line in on the board for the sweep or pink noise signal to the system, then pull only the ECM8000 mic channel off the board using the insert jack or effects out jack (keeping it turned off from the main and monitor systems) and run that to a line in on the Sound Blaster. That way I'm getting phantom power and preamplification from the board without having to have a separate preamp.
Sorry about getting so long-winded here, but I thought I'd leave in all of that first part I was typing, just in case anybody else had thought along those same lines.
Anywho, if anybody has followed me this far, am I getting way off base here, or do you think this would work? Has anybody here done anything like this before and do you have any advice? This place I'm doing is pretty far from home and way out in the sticks so I need to have everything I need when I go back, and I can't spend a lot on preamps and power supplies and stuff (cables, I've got or can make).
Thanks, Mike
