Reference Guide

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Audio
Beginner’s guide to Cakewalk software
Mixer
You can connect a mixer to the sound card with a setup of the following kind:
Figure 423. Mixer
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 inch 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