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Greetings-

I'm a total newb and it seems I got myself in hardware hell. But luckily I found my some of my answer on this site already. Heres my question is so dumb i bet?I have an mpc2000 xl and thats it. lol.

So i guess I'm going to need a mixer, a turntable and a phono preamp and some hall and oats.

Question: how the hell i hook it up? I really need help with what cables but i think I can narrow it down by asking the question.

So to sample from a turntable i hookup the turntable via some cable to the phono preamp input? then some cable from the phono preamp output to the mpc input? then via some cable out of the mpc output to the mixer input? is this how im suppose to hook up these item together.

and a qucik ? about mixers - i eq and master on the mixer itself but the tweaking of sounds is the transfered on back to the mpc for that particular song?

Thanks guys hoping to hear some replies. I was a software guy before this.

So to sample from a turntable i hookup the turntable via some cable to the phono preamp input? then some cable from the phono preamp output to the mpc input? then via some cable out of the mpc output to the mixer input? is this how im suppose to hook up these item together.

yes, that's one of a few ways to do that
if turntable has already build in preamp, you don't need external one, that's obvious

cables that you want to hook it up with are 1/4" balanced or unbalanced (to the MPC and to the mixer, depending on what inputs it's got) or you can use 2rca-2rca and some rca-1/4 " jack connectors

remember, that inputs of the mpc are balanced but the outputs aren't (don't know why...)

harlej wrote:

So to sample from a turntable i hookup the turntable via some cable to the phono preamp input? then some cable from the phono preamp output to the mpc input? then via some cable out of the mpc output to the mixer input? is this how im suppose to hook up these item together.

yes, that's one of a few ways to do that
if turntable has already build in preamp, you don't need external one, that's obvious

cables that you want to hook it up with are 1/4" balanced or unbalanced (to the MPC and to the mixer, depending on what inputs it's got) or you can use 2rca-2rca and some rca-1/4 " jack connectors

remember, that inputs of the mpc are balanced but the outputs aren't (don't know why...)

hey thanks now i know what kind of cables to get! so from the phono pream to mpc is via 1/4 and mpc to mixer is also 1/4 but what does balnce or unbalance mean?and im getting a cheap behringer mixer i think.
But what does your last statement mean? audio signal of output is
unstable?Thanks.

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/balanced/

it should explain everything clearly

so 31 is output and 32 is where i plug in the phono preamp - moreover i think i understand the unbalance/balance thing/

but a new question arises - i don't have 8 outs? are those 8 out direct sound to its own channel? so by me getting a mixer atm without the eight outs Im only capable of doing the main mix and not individual channel? sucks! so i can 't eq a samples bass? but rather only the main mix thus far? how much 8 outs cost and where and who can install. peace. have a good weekend .

Balanced cables only have an advantage when you have very long cables. For the home studio it doesn't matter. So don't worry if you can't use balanced cables cause the other part you connect isn't balanced as well.

Balanced cables only have an advantage when you have very long cables. For the home studio it doesn't matter. So don't worry if you can't use balanced cables cause the other part you connect isn't balanced as well.

Yes,that's correct.What about the +4 dB better signal when comparing to unbalanced ones?
I use balanced cables and ins/outs in my home setup just to make sure that I'm getting the best out of it. And my sound card has baanced ins/outs.So, I think that this gives me some advantages over unbalanced circuit,don't u think ?

harlej wrote:

Balanced cables only have an advantage when you have very long cables. For the home studio it doesn't matter. So don't worry if you can't use balanced cables cause the other part you connect isn't balanced as well.

Yes,that's correct.What about the +4 dB better signal when comparing to unbalanced ones?

I didn't know that. Of course, if you have the possibility why not use balanced connections.

Just wanted to make sure nobody thinks he gets a loss of sound quality not using those.