Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
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By mr_debauch Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:37 pm
forget Y cables...

just pretend you never heard of them. they will not help you.
By chaseaston Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:22 am
mr_debauch wrote:forget Y cables...

just pretend you never heard of them. they will not help you.


Ok, I can get rid of the Y cable. So the suggestion is to use one cable (with a single RCA to 1/4" TS, I assume?), and plug one end into either the right or left of my REC OUT on the mixer, and the other end into the REC IN of the MPC?

If I am correct, and this is what is being suggested, won't doing that sound the same as just panning hard left or right on my mixer when using a Y cable?
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By mr_debauch Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:39 pm
when you take a Y cable.. you are combining the power (current) from the left, and the right together which is double you need.. it could cause damage over time.
By JVC Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:49 pm
mr_debauch wrote:when you take a Y cable.. you are combining the power (current) from the left, and the right together which is double you need.. it could cause damage over time.

Theoretically true, but it's very unlikely that you'll damage your equipment just because of the Y cable.
Y cable is for spreading mono signal to stereo input, not other way around.

You have to have the stereo signal (2 channel) mixed to mono (1 channel.) If you are using 2 channel DJ mixer, then you can connect the phono out L to DJ mixer's program 1's L, then connect the phono out R to DJ mixer's program 2's L, set the cross-fader to center.
Now you hear only left channel from the DJ mixer, but the L channel is properly mixed. Just feed the L channel to the mono sampler.
This is a good setting, because you can change the amount of left and right mix.

Other no-mess solution is to make stereo to mono cable. I did made one for myself. To be honest, I cannot tell difference (other than sound level) compared to using Y cable, LOL! But this the proper way to do it;

http://marcusmorris.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... do-it.html