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Hi everyone, as my nickname suggests I am a extreme newbie to the world of Mackie mixing and karaoke. Actually I'm just the husband that has to set up everything, My wife loves to sing and often sings for family and friends. She recently purchased a Mackie DFX6 and a condensor mic to go with it, in hopes to improve some of her sounds.

Alas my job comes in to hook the mackie up. Her setup previous to the mackie was to use a audio player on her computer to both play the karaoke song and to record her singing, normal setup, microphone plugged into the Mic in on the Soundblaster Audigy card and of course the speakers plugged into the speaker out.

I've read a little on the mackie setup for a karaoke machine, haven't been able to find anything on hooking a mackie to a computer, I figured the PC hook up would be pretty close to the karaoke machine hookup. I got the appropriate cables to go from the sound card audio out into the mackie 3/4 mono in, then got cables to go from the Tape out left & right to the Mic in on the sound card, also got the cable to plug the condensor mic into Mic 1 location.

With only the outbound plug, plugged into the sound card the outbound music works great, you can plug headsets into the phones jack on the mackie and hear the music and hear the talking on the mic, the problem I'm having is as soon as I plug the cable from tape out into the Mic in on the sound card in order to record again, it creates a very high pitched squeal that I can't get rid of, and doesn't allow you to hear or do anything, it's almost like feedback but louder squeal.

We've already spent about $500 for this "hobby" so I'm hoping it hasn't been a waste of money, have any of you done this before, maybe had success, maybe I'm just doing something wrong here. Anyone have any suggestions? I'd appreciate it very much.

thanks

Mike

You may need to turn the mixer down. Get a dual 1/4" male to 1/8" stereol (TRS or balanced) female & you may need to work with the output level to make it work with your sound card.

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I am using a mackie dfx 12 basicaly the same mixer with a computer and loneman is right. about the cable, but dont go with a cable from radio shack, they arent shielded enough. use a proaudio cable (not a brand name). I have one from a guitar center, and I love computer karaoke.

Make sure the effects 1 & 2 knobs on the computer channel are all the way counterclockwise. otherwise you will be sending your reverb with the music as well as the audio. this is undesirable.

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