connecting my mpc2000xl to my digi002 (as standalone)

hi guys...

i'm really troubled and hoping someone can straighten some stuff out for me.

now, my live setup for my sequences is a mpc2000xl and digi002 (i just use it as a standalone mixer on stage).

i have the 8-outs card in my mpc2000xl as well, but i only use four of the outputs:
1 and 2 are used for my loops for my sequences, and 3 and 4 are used for the sounds i trigger on the pads (i do this so that i can raise/lower the volumes of the loops and sounds i'm actually playing if i have to).

here's the thing.
i'm not sure whether to put the four outputs from my mpc into the 1-4 inputs of the 002, or the 5-8 inputs.
what would be better/more efficient???

a lot of my questioning also has to do with inputs 5-8 as well.
i know u can choose either -10dBV or +4 dBu, but what i can't figure out is:
what's the actual difference between them?
i mean...when i switch the setting, all i know is that one's louder than the other, but i'd like to know when to have it on the correct setting, what it really does...ya know?
how would i know which setting to have it on??

also...what IS the operating level for the mpc2000xl anyways?


if someone could please help me, i'd greatly appreciate it.

thanx so much,

_chris

hey....

i saw this on http://www.mpc-samples.com/tutorial.php?xTutorialID=11

Unbalanced

An unbalanced cable runs two connectors, a hot (+) and an earth.

By the way, I am being very simplistic here as there are many variations to balanced, unbalanced, TRS, coax, etc…What is important is that if your equipment is balanced, then use balanced cables throughout the path, if the path has balanced and unbalanced, then simply use balanced to unbalanced cables and vice versa.

i'm connecting my MPC2000XL from my 8-outs card, which i know is unbalanced, into my digi002, which is balanced/unbalanced.

are there cables that are TRS on one end and TS on the other?

i mean...does it make sense to connect from the MPC as TS and to the digi002 as TRS?

or does it not even matter?
will it make ANY difference at all as if i connected them from TS to TS?

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