Instruction Manual

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Audio
Beginner’s Guide to Cakewalk Software
Let’s trace the signal flow in the above picture:
1. Your pre-recorded tracks flow out of the sound card’s outputs into mixer
inputs #1 and 2.
2. Both the pre-recorded tracks and the live guitar’s sound flow into the
main mixer outs, where you can hear them (monitor them) through the
stereo amplifier and speakers.
3. If you turn up the bus send #1 on the guitar input (mixer input #3), the
guitar sound flows into a sound card line input out of bus #1. You could
turn up the bus send #2 control on the guitar input if you wanted to use
that instead, since both buses #1 and #2 are patched into the sound
card’s line input. You could also use both bus sends at the same time to
double the guitar’s mono signal if you wanted (not the usual way to
record).
4. Since you’re already hearing the guitar through the main outputs, you
probably don’t want to hear its signal again coming back through the
sound card’s outputs, so mute the sound card’s line-in on its Play
Control page of its mixer software (not its Record Control page—you
want to record the line-in, but not play it back).
5. If you plug other instruments into other inputs, you can send them into
your sound card’s line input by turning up bus send #1 and/or #2 on
each of the mixer’s channels.
1/4” instrument cable to input #3
Main mixer outs to power amp
Stereo Amplifier
From Aux Bus #1 & 2
to sound card line input
From sound card line
output tto inputs #1 & 2