- Hi, I'm Jordan from Kettner Creative,
in this video I wanna show you four different ways
to connect your audio mixer to your iPad,
now depending on what version of iPad you use,
you'll either need this lightning to camera adapter,
is what Apple calls it,
or a USB-C multi adapter,
If your iPad has a lightning output
so any standard iPad,
you'll need this
it basically goes from lightning to USB,
If you have an iPad Pro that has USB-C on the bottom,
then you can use this,
it goes USB-C
and then it has a whole bunch of different options,
USB, HDMI and you can power it
through the same adapter as well,
if you want pricing or specs for either of these options,
we do have some links in the description below this video,
since I have the standard iPad model here,
I'm gonna use the lightning to USB adapter.
So plug that in,
right now on my iPad I just have GarageBand open,
so the first solution
that I'm gonna show you today,
relies on this USB sound card here,
I don't love these things,
but they do exist
and a lot of people are okay with using them,
so I'm gonna show you how it works,
and you can be the judge whether
or not you wanna use this for your solution,
personally, I wouldn't,
I'll use one of the later solutions
that I'll show you near the end,
so you can plug this into the USB on your iPad
and you'll get a pop up here that says
that your audio device is connected,
and then from there,
we have two options,
so the first option if your mixer has a RCA output
is to use a cable like this,
this will go from stereo RCA,
you could plug this into the outputs of your mixer,
and it goes to an eighth inch
or three and a half millimeter jack
that you can plug into the red microphone input
on this USB sound card,
now the audio mixer that I have connected here
only has XLR and quarter inch outputs,
but I did find an older version of this mixer
and you can plug these into the record out of that mixer,
and that will give you an audio signal to your iPad.
The next option that I wanna show you
is very similar to the RCA cable I just showed you
and it still relies on this USB sound card
which I don't love,
but this option does exist
so I'll show you how it works,
basically it goes from stereo quarter inch cables,
left and right
to the same three and a half millimeter or eighth inch jack,
so you plug these stereo quarter inch cables,
make sure the red one is on the right channel,
and then you plug that eighth inch jack
into your USB sound card
and the red input for the microphone,
and that will give you audio input into your mixer as well.
The next option that I'm gonna show you
is my favorite options out of all these,
it's the most simple
and that's by USB audio mixer in the first place,
now USB audio mixer will have a USB jack
on the back of the mixer,
so you can just connect that straight to this adapter
that we have plugged into the iPad,
so I have one of those cables here,
let's plug this into the back of the audio mixer,
plug this into our GarageBand iPad setup,
and it'll detect the device,
and that's how that works,
so it's super straightforward,
now everything in your audio mixer,
will kick out through the stereo outputs,
and a copy of that stereo output
will go through USB into your iPad for recording.
Now the other option I wanna show you,
is similar to this,
it's just a little bit more complicated
in terms of getting your power and everything organized,
and that is to connect
a USB audio interface like this one,
to your iPad,
now the problem with this solution,
is that most USB audio interfaces,
are not wall-powered,
they rely on that bus power coming from a computer,
so to solve that,
I'll show you what we need to do,
we need one of these,
this is a powered USB Hub
or powered USB Bus
and you'll know it's self-powered
because it has its own power input on the back
that you plug straight into the wall,
this cannot rely on being bus powered from the iPad,
so what that means is,
one power input will go into the back,
and that gets plugged into the wall,
and the USB cable that comes out of the back of this,
will get plugged into the iPad,
so we do that here,
and then we'll use a USB cable now
to connect the back of our USB audio interface
that will go into the USB Hub,
and you'll see that the light turns on,
now that light if we try
to plug this USB audio interface,
straight into the USB input on this iPad,
you'll see that that light does not light up,
It does not get the power that is required,
that's why we have to use this powered USB Hub,
the good thing is that these are quite inexpensive,
If you just go on Amazon,
there's tons of different options there,
we have some links in the description below,
so once we have this unit powered up,
then we need to connect it to our audio mixer,
so to do that,
I just need to grab a couple XLR cables,
now, this does have quarter inch inputs
on the front as well,
so this will work with either mixer with XLR outputs
or quarter inch outputs,
so plug the first channel in,
plug that into the USB audio interface,
plug the next channel in,
and plug that into the USB audio interface,
once you've done all that,
then you just adjust your volumes
on the USB audio interface,
and you're ready to go,
so there you have four different solutions,
you have the USB sound card with RCA
or the USB sound card with quarter inch,
you have using a USB audio mixer
or you have using the XLR outputs
or quarter inch outputs on that mixer,
and running them through a USB interface,
so all these different options are viable,
I do not like using these USB sound cards,
I don't think the quality is good,
and they're generally made by no-name brand companies,
so the quality does change on a batch by batch basis,
but if you wanna risk it,
this is definitely the cheapest option,
otherwise, I prefer the USB audio mixer,
I think it's the cleanest solution out there,
and the USB audio interface
you might already have one of these kicking around
so it makes it really easy to connect to any audio mixer.
Now again, we do have links for pricing and availability,
for anything that you've seen in this video
in the description below,
so be sure to check that out,
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thank you so much for watching.
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