Hooking Up Turntable & Mixer with MPC 60

I know someone is probably going to get pissed at me for posting this and tell me RTFM but I've been searching and I read in the manual and looked in the forums and I haven't found any tutorials on how to hook the stuff up together... What cables (or adapters) do I need?

Are these right?





Am I supposed to plug one of the RCA jacks from my turntable straight into the RECORD IN with a RCA to 1/4" adapter? Or do I plug in a 1/4" with dual RCA in the RECORD IN and then plug the RCA jacks into the back of the mixer?

And when I connect the STEREO OUT LEFT and STEREO OUT RIGHT jacks to the inputs of my mixer which inputs do they go in? Line or Phono?

If my termanology is wrong forgive me.. I'm trying to talk about the cables in the pictures.

turntable to the phono input of the DJ mixer (ie: vestax) and you run the outputs from the mixer into the MPC using this:




and this:






remember:

turntable connects to that DJ mixer to convert that phono signal to a line level signal. Then the dj mixer connects to the mpc line input.

you can either use a normal RCA jack with that rca to 1/4 adapter jack on the end and run the left signal alone or get the things in the above pics i posted..... basically you can use anything that physically fits between the DJ mixer and the MPC.

Man.. you're on point all the time. Thanks for everything, I really appreciate it.

mr_debauch wrote:

really? I thought Y adaptors only work when you split outputs, they cant combine 2 signals into 1 input can they?

Grenozh wrote:

mr_debauch wrote:

really? I thought Y adaptors only work when you split outputs, they cant combine 2 signals into 1 input can they?

yeah they do, most Y adapters have a single stereo 1/4" jack and it takes the grounds from the left and right and shares them so you got left +, right+ and a common - .... this one on the other hand combines both + and - wires from each of the rca.... from my understanding. It aint really the "pro" thing to do... but who are we kidding here?

hmmm, I remember I used 2 rca splitters to try connecting 2 line sources on the same inputs on my dj mixer and I would only be able to hear 1 of them, then if I unplugged the one I could hear then the other one would work

Grenozh wrote:hmmm, I remember I used 2 rca splitters to try connecting 2 line sources on the same inputs on my dj mixer and I would only be able to hear 1 of them, then if I unplugged the one I could hear then the other one would work

well maybe but this case he is sending both left and right line outs to get merged into the one single mono input of the mpc... even if for some reason that happens it's a win/win situation.

whatever, I just use the left output. unless I want to sample instruments that are on the right side then I switch them

I tried one of these:


which the left goes to the tip and right goes to ring, but the input is balanced so since the adaptor is 3 conductor I think that means it would get messed up because the input is trying to read a balanced signal not a stereo one

When the cable is plugged into an input (on a mixer or other equipment) the hot and cold signals are combined...... but at the input stage the inversion is reversed before being merged together

thats why the input sounded so quiet so I just decided to go back to sampling the left output

yeah that is true for balanced... however stereo unbalanced cables are not the same as a balanced... the mpc60 line in is unbalanced I suspect... since the other models I have used are unbalanced.

no its balanced, it says so in the manual

Grenozh wrote:no its balanced, it says so in the manual

really, I didn't know that one. it should have three contacts in the jack then and should be run from something that outputs a balanced signal. It is basically the same thing but wired differently and has different impedance. balanced cables are shielded by the ground and longer cables can be used without interference issues.

yeah the manual says balanced or unbalanced cables should work, but if its a balanced cable it needs to be a balanced signal

I bought this:



I plugged it into the record in in the back of my MPC and then I plugged the RCA into the output of my vestax mixer. That worked fine and I can sample to my MPC.

Then I bought one of these because I want to be able hear what I'm playing on my monitors obviously



I plugged the 1/4" jacks into the stereo out on the back of my MPC but now I don't know where the RCA jacks go into on the back of my mixer. I put them into one of the line inputs and then when I try to playback the sample I took, its extremely quiet. So I tried putting them in Phono and it makes a crazy noise so I know thats not right.

My MPC 60 has a headphone jack that was installed so the only way for my to hear what I'm playing at a normal level is when I have the headphones in.

Where do I need to plug in the RCA jacks for me to be able to hear the sound coming from my MPC without turning up the volume on my mixer super loud?

either directly into your left and right monitor... or into another mixer and the mixer then goes to the monitors. if you runing those back into the same mixer you have going into your mpc you are just making a loop... haha