newbie with a few questions

hey firstt of all i want to say this a great site man i relly love it ok now on to the questions right now i have been using reason and a korg kontrol49 for a while now but i don't relly like softwear that much anymore so what i am doing is trading in the control49 and paying a lil extra cash and getting a mpc 1k so what i want to know is i got a cheat trun table at my house and i was woundering if i can hook that stright up to the mpc or do i need somthing else b/c my dad was a dj in the 70 and there is like 5 creates full of vinly in my basement and i can't wait to get my hands on it and with me trading in my controler right now i will be straped for cash for a lil bit so will i still be able to do a lot of the funtions with the mpc with out it or should i want intill i can buy both the mpc and the midi controler at the same time thanks peace

Jus as long as you have something to power the turntable you should be fine. You mentioned you pops was a dj so I'm sure he as a mixer of some sort to power it. A turntable, vinyl, and a mpc1k should you fine until you scrape some more money togehter to get whatever else you'll. Lately thats all i've been using. I love it, becuase i have been seeing myself improving greatly with my chopping skills , and what not. Jus know what your buying before you buy it. mpc1k=no time stretch, and no zoning. Ohh yea one more thing read the manual, because 90% of the time it will have the answer in it.

Do your turntables have a pre-amp inside?
If so you can connect them str8 to the mpc.

If not, you will need a pre-amp or mixer w/ preamp to go between
the tt's and mpc.

Lampdog wrote:Do your turntables have a pre-amp inside?
If so you can connect them str8 to the mpc.

If not, you will need a pre-amp or mixer w/ preamp to go between
the tt's and mpc.

got any experience wit the Behringer Eurorack UB1202 i'm tryhin to hook up my mpc to that but which jacks do i use on the mixer?

what is the point of mixer anyhow?

it has phantom pwr on it but i also have a pre amp? is the pre amp jus not usable?

thank you

oNe

sorry i noticed it didn't explain correctly my bad..

the mixer gots tape in's and outs... the outs go to my studio monitor system...

right now i have the turntable to the reciever then to the tape in on the mixer.. but if i want to use the mpc i have to unplug the tape ins from the table and plus in the mpc...


there has to be a way to hook it all up w/o this.. aka HOW am thne gon sample from the table to the mpc and have it all heard on my sound system?


thank you all

oNe

ok, not sure if i understand or not what yer saying, but,

if you plug in the mixer lineout into the mpc, and go direct out from mpc to your monitor system, select "monitor=on" on the mpc, (you gotta be in the recording screen) the mpc will push the incoming sound thru to its outputs...
that way u can sometimes hear what the mpc is playin, or when u go to record u can hear what the deck is playing.

does that work for you?

to clarify, you should have a chain like: table-receiver-mixer-lineout-mpc-monitor. (but again, not sure if i understand your setup exactly).

sleepersriddle wrote:ok, not sure if i understand or not what yer saying, but,

if you plug in the mixer lineout into the mpc, and go direct out from mpc to your monitor system, select "monitor=on" on the mpc, (you gotta be in the recording screen) the mpc will push the incoming sound thru to its outputs...
that way u can sometimes hear what the mpc is playin, or when u go to record u can hear what the deck is playing.

does that work for you?

to clarify, you should have a chain like: table-receiver-mixer-lineout-mpc-monitor. (but again, not sure if i understand your setup exactly).

thanks for the help guy but i'm not sure if i understand your explanation..

here check it out..

i have this mixer...
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHUB1202
http://media.zzounds.com/media/brand,zz ... baa6e1.jpg

i'm connect my turntable to my reciever phone in..(i tried connecting DIRECTLY to the mixer but the volume was mad weak even at full pwr)

thne from the pioneer reciever i have a tape out that goes to the tape IN on my mixer...

then from my mixer I use the tape OUT to my monitor system...

if i want to play my mpc on my monitors i have unplug the tape in from the reciever and put in the mpc INTO the tape in, to get sound coming out the monitors...

the problem is.... i want to ONE day record samples from the table to the mpc...

also i thought the whole point of the mixer was so that i wouldn't have to plug and unplug everything n so it could all be used together at once..

also i can't find it in the manuel but the 1202 doesn't seem to have an on/off switch...

that seems ridiculous to me.. n the manuel is pretty useless.. like 3 pg's total...

i was told to use the control outs to my monitors? i'll try that again but it didn't seem to do much good before...

let me know if that helped clarify all this?

thanks

lets do this...


oNe

ok, were getting somewhere...

The big problem is yer trying to use tape in/out for everything where you should be using some of the 'normal' in/outputs here.

a general tip: u don't always have to use the 'tape' in/out for devices with rca jacks, you can also buy some little adapter from rca cable-->quarter inch plug.

now here's the simple way to do this:

go FROM MPC: stereo output TO MIXER: left/right in Channel 5. use two quarter-inch cables.
go FROM mixer main line out left/right (in back) TO inputs left/right on MPC. use two more quarter-inch cables. hint: you can get the cables in attached pairs of 2 to make life easy.

leave everything else as you say. let me know if that works, you should be able to hear your mpc, and the mpc can hear the main mix from the mixer including turntable sound.

....
but there's a problem with this setup, namely, when you wanna sample you have to stop the mpc from playing it's loop while you do that, otherwise mpc will be re-sampling its own output, you dig?

so some of the ways around that are:
-figure out the 'aux' send/return on your mixer
-use the 'tape in/out' for mpc along with the 'tape in enable' button, then attach the rest of the stuff to other channels using the adapters i mentioned.

but let me know if first way works.