- Hi, I'm Jordan from Kettner Creative.
In this video,
I'm gonna show you how to connect your audio mixer
to your USB audio interface.
Today we're using the Yamaha MG10 audio mixer,
which has balanced quarter inch outputs and XLR outputs.
The audio interface that we're gonna use today
is the PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL.
But what I'm gonna show you today
will work on almost any USB audio interface.
On this one, again, similar to the Yamaha console,
we have combi jacks here
which offer quarter inch inputs or XLR inputs.
In this video, we also have to Shure SM58 microphones
which we'll connect to the audio mixer
and we'll show you how to prove
that we're getting a stereo input
all the way from the audio mixer,
to the USB audio interface,
to the computer, into a recording.
If you're curious about the pricing
or the specs of anything in this video,
please check out the description below.
We do have some links, so you can look up current pricing
and availability of everything that you see in this video.
Now the first thing that we're gonna do
is we're gonna connect the USB audio interface
to our computer.
On the back of the USB audio interface,
we have a USB 2.0 output.
Some USB audio interfaces have USB-C.
So just make sure that you buy the right cable
because not all interfaces come with the cable
to connect it to your computer.
This computer uses USB-C
so we're just gonna use a USB 2.0 cable
to connect it to the USB-C port on this computer.
So when we connect it,
you can see that this USB audio interface is bus powered,
which means it's getting all the power that it needs
from the laptop.
This little power light comes on here
to prove that it's powered up.
For both methods that we're gonna connect the audio mixer
to the USB audio interface,
we will be sending a line level output.
Everything that comes from an audio mixer
will be a line level output.
This is different than a mic level
or different than an instrument level output.
So what that means is we don't need any help from the preamp
on this USB audio interface.
So you can actually leave the volume
for input one and input two turned all the way down.
But you want the main output of the USB audio interface
turned all the way up to 100%.
The first way that I'm gonna show you
how to connect your audio mixer to your USB audio interface
is by using balanced quarter inch cables.
So the mixer that we have today,
we have two balanced quarter inch outputs.
So I'm gonna take this cable.
You can tell it's a balanced quarter inch cable
because there's two marks on it.
So that's the tip, the ring and the sleeve,
also known as a TRS cable.
So you plug the first cable
into the left output of the mixer
and into input one on the USB audio interface.
The next cable,
we're gonna plug into the right output of the mixer
and we're gonna plug it into the second input
of the USB audio interface.
Right like that.
So that will give us stereo sound.
What I'm gonna do now
is I'm gonna connect it again using an XLR cable
so you see how that works.
And then we'll show you how it works
connecting the USB audio interface to the computer
once we connect the microphones as well.
So the next way that you can connect your audio mixer
is using XLR.
So plug one XLR cable into the first output of the mixer
and the second XLR cable
into the input on the USB audio interface into input one.
The next XLR cable,
we'll plug into this right output of the audio mixer,
we'll plug it into the second input
of the USB audio interface.
Now just like the last time,
we still want the volumes of each input
turned all the way down.
We're still sending a line level output from the mixer
so we don't need any help from the preamp.
But we'll leave the main output all the way up
on the USB audio interface.
Next we're gonna connect two microphones to audio mixer
so that we can show that we're getting stereo sound
all the way to the computer.
So the first microphone,
we'll connect it into input one on the audio mixer.
And the next microphone, we'll connect it into input two.
So the next thing that we're gonna do
is we're gonna turn the stereo output
all the way up to this triangle position.
That's also known as zero or unity,
there may be a 0 or a U on the mixer that you're using,
they all say the same thing.
We're also gonna turn the level of the first microphone
up to that same triangle position
or zero or unity depending on your mixer.
As we speak into this first microphone,
you can see that we're not getting
any level showing up on the meter.
So I increase the gain here until that level comes up
somewhere between minus six and zero.
You can see right here we're at a good point
where we're just touching off zero.
We're gonna grab the second microphone
and copy paste the same settings
all the way up until we see that meter move
up to that minus six or zero position,
which I think we're getting a pretty good level there.
Next, we're gonna pan these,
so the first microphone goes to the left.
You can see there L for left.
And the right microphone,
the second microphone, we'll pan to the right.
Now just to double check,
as I speak into this first microphone,
you can see the left side is moving.
And as I speak into the second microphone,
you can see that the right side is moving.
So we're sending stereo sound from the audio mixer.
Next, we're gonna connect it to GarageBand on our laptop.
So to keep things super simple,
we're just gonna use GarageBand.
I'm gonna start a new empty project
and it will set up the project file here
and it detected the audio interface
so we're gonna let it know
that we wanna use a microphone recording
and we wanna use inputs one and two
coming from the USB audio interface.
I'll hit Create.
Now as I speak into the first microphone,
you can see the left side is moving there on the meter.
And as I speak into the second microphone,
you can see that the right side is moving there.
So now I'm gonna hit Record so we can get a copy
and so you can hear what it sounds like
when all this is recorded in the computer.
This is what the left microphone sounds like.
This is what the right microphone sounds like.
So that's how you connect your audio mixer
to a USB audio interface.
Again, if you have any questions
about anything that you've seen in this video,
we have some links in the description below
so you can look up specs or current pricing.
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