I want to use my iHP-120 (firmware version 1.65) to record my weekly gig: two guitars/vocals, 4 mics plugged into a Yamaha EMX640 mixer. There are good pics of this mixer, plus a key telling what everything does, at
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/proa...40/callout.htm
In the Output area of the mixer (lower right) is a Monitor Out, Main Out, and Rec Out (RCA stereo phono). There is no phones jack from which I might record. My understanding from the club manager is that I can record only from Rec Out, and my further understanding is that the Rec Out output is at a fixed level (can’t be controlled from the mixer), but somebody elsewhere in this forum who uses this mixer said, regarding recording from this mixer, “If you use the output jacks (monitor or main), the level is controlled from the monitor or main levels settings (just below the leds showing the db).” I asked this person if he was referring to the jacks on the front or the back of the mixer but have not heard back.
Using a stereo cable, I tried recording from the Monitor Out and also the Main Out in the Output area on the front of the mixer to Line In of my iHP-120 and got nothing. Using a Y-cable from Rec Out of the mixer to Line In of the iHP-120, I also got nothing. I don’t know if this is because I am not using the correct outputs or because I don’t have the iHP-120 set properly. I do have Line In set as the input sourceon the iHP-120 and tried various volume levels.
If there is an output on this mixer (Monitor Out and/or Main Out) whose volume level can be controlled, how do I coordinate that volume level setting with the Line In volume level setting of the iHP-120?
Which mixer output should I use, and how should I set my iHP-120?
I also have an external recording level meter (ISI-RLM-1 from ISI Innovative Specialists). Instructions say “It plugs into the headphone output (line out) of your recorder” so I don’t know whether to plug into headphone out or line out of the iHP-120 and will appreciate advice on this point. Under “Record Setting” of the iHP when you hit the A/B button in Record mode is a setting for “Output Vol.” Would that setting affect the reading of the recording level meter if I plug it into Line Out or Headphone Out and thereby make the meter reading useless?
Finally, I have a small in-line attenuator that can go between the mixer and the iHP-120, if that might be advisable. But so far I have no sound to attenuate.
I will appreciate receiving help. Thanks.
T-L
(iRiver iDiot)