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Help, did I buy the wrong cheap mixer?

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benneburg

May 17, 2009
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#1
Hey guys

I bought a tiny mixer, a "The t-mix MicroMix 2 USB". What I want to do, is have my PC and CD player plugged in, so I can have sound from both at the same time and adjust the sound levels individually.

Please behold this glorious piece of artwork that depicts my wishes!
whattodo.jpg

I guess the bass is supposed to go into the XLR/jack combo port. That will only be sometimes, so we can consider it available.
The mixer can be fed sound from the PC, through either USB or from the soundcard with a minijack to RCA cable.
CD player is of course RCA to whatever is needed.
Finally it will end up in my NAD home stereo amplifier.

Can this thing even do what I want?
Such a simple thing and I am completely baffled by it right now...


benne^
 
#4
I did something similar for a few years, and it worked nicely.

There's one gotcha to watch out for: the bass will almost certainly need a preamp, to bring its signal up to line-level.
The combo jack is listed as "mic/line" and I don't see anything about instrument-level input in either the Thomann page or the manual that's linked from that page.

Since you already have the mixer, you can try it and see what happens. As long as you have the output volume turned down while you're plugging/unplugging things, the worst that'll happen is that the bass sounds too quiet and really bad.
An Amplug might do the job, but I've never plugged mine into a line-level input, so I don't know for sure.
 
#5
benneburg said:
Hey guys

I bought a tiny mixer, a "The t-mix MicroMix 2 USB". What I want to do, is have my PC and CD player plugged in, so I can have sound from both at the same time and adjust the sound levels individually.

Please behold this glorious piece of artwork that depicts my wishes!
View attachment 4540888
I guess the bass is supposed to go into the XLR/jack combo port. That will only be sometimes, so we can consider it available.
The mixer can be fed sound from the PC, through either USB or from the soundcard with a minijack to RCA cable.
CD player is of course RCA to whatever is needed.
Finally it will end up in my NAD home stereo amplifier.

Can this thing even do what I want?
Such a simple thing and I am completely baffled by it right now...


benne^
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It should do what you want it to do.

So, what’s baffling about it for you right now? Like, not working at all or something specific not working?
 
#6
DirtDog said:
It should do what you want it to do.

So, what’s baffling about it for you right now? Like, not working at all or something specific not working?
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How to get sound from both CD and PC at the same time, with the option to adjust levels for them individually. I can get one or the other to work fine, but both at the same time not so much.

If it can't do what I need it to, I will give it to a kid from work that also play bass, our latest apprentice.


benne^
 
#8
benneburg said:
How to get sound from both CD and PC at the same time, with the option to adjust levels for them individually. I can get one or the other to work fine, but both at the same time not so much.

If it can't do what I need it to, I will give it to a kid from work that also play bass, our latest apprentice.


benne^
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Looks like Ch 2/3 will only let you select Line or USB input one at a time. So, the symptom you're experiencing is likely a result of that limitation. Like @JKos says, out from the computer sound card into the 2TK in on the mixer. You'll need another 1/8" stereo to double RCA jack cable for that. And you'll need to toggle the 2TK button on the mixer to be able to monitor.

If you want more line inputs AND the audio over USB return from the computer, you'll need a different piece of hardware without that limitation. Might be a different mixer OR a dedicated audio interface.
 

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