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F-CONTROL
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FCA202
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To provide a professional recording interface between mixing console and computer, you can use
the FCA202 in combination with a suitable mixing console that includes subgroup outputs. This type
of setup allows you to record several signals in the computer at the same time, to simultaneously
play back several takes or playbacks which have been recorded, and to listen to the whole
recording via loudspeakers or headphones. Figure 4.1 shows one possible setup with an UB1204FX-
PRO mixing console.
Connect the outputs of the subgroup (in this case ALT 3-4 OUT) with the inputs of the FCA202
.
You can choose to connect the outputs
of the interface either to the TAPE INPUT sockets or
to a stereo channel output (e.g. LINE 7/8). Connect your loudspeakers to the CONTROL ROOM
outputs of the mixing console. You can connect control headphones to the socket
of the
FCA202 or to the headphones output of your mixing console.
By routing each channel that you want to record through the ALT 3-4 subgroup, you can now use
the input channels of the mixing console to record different signals (e.g. microphone, guitar, sound
module etc.) in the computer. If you connect the OUT sockets of the FCA202 to channel inputs 7/8
(not via TAPE INPUT)
,
make sure that the signal is
not
switched to the subgroup but instead to the
main output of your mixer (MUTE key on the UB1204FX-PRO in channel 7/8 not pressed). Otherwise
feedback can occur. Make sure that you use the SOURCE section on the mixing console to select
the correct monitoring paths (ALT 3-4 + MAIN MIX or ALT 3-4 + TAPE).
If you lead the FCA202 back via a channel input (not TAPE INPUT), you can also use the Aux
channel to set up a monitor mix for live musicians. To do this, use the Aux Send (e.g. Aux 1) in this
channel input. If the musicians want to hear themselves as well as the playback or previous
recording takes, use the Aux Sends in the recording channels to mix in the recording signals with
the monitor mix.
4. WORKING WITH THE FCA202
