Behringer Europack Pro RX1202FX User Manual

EURORACK PRO RX1202FX User Manual

MIDI sound module

B-2 Pro

V-Amp 3

Electric Guitar

HPS3000

HPS3000

TRUTH B200A

Keyboard

F-Control FCA202

Laptop

MD Recorder

Mini Amp Amp 800

Fig. 3.1: The RX1202FX in a recording studio

Even though most of the tasks in a studio can nowadays be accomplished using 

a computer, a mixing console remains an unavoidable piece of equipment that 

lets you effectively manage audio inputs and outputs: microphone signals 

need to be pre-amplified prior to being recorded, and the quality of microphone 

sound is often worked on; recording and playback signals must be routed to the 

appropriate connectors or integrated into the mix; the volume of headphones 

and studio monitors needs to be adjusted, and so on. The well-equipped main 

section of the RX1202FX is extremely useful in this case.

Cabling:
Connect your sound sources to the mic or line inputs of the mixer. Join your 

master machine (DAT/MD recorder) to the main outputs. Your monitor speaker 

is connected to the CTRL OUT connector, the headphones to the PHONES 

output. Now attach the CD/TAPE outputs with the inputs of the sound 

card of your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Hook up the outputs of the 

computer’s soundcard to the CD/TAPE inputs. Connect a headphone amplifier 

to the MON connector to be able to provide performing musicians with a 

monitoring signal.

Record and playback:
The recording signal is preamplified in a mixer’s channel, processed with the 

EQ and routed back to the main bus. Determine the recording level with the 

LEVEL fader. The entire level to the computer is adjusted with the MAIN MIX 

fader. To ensure that the signal is really being recorded, you should not listen 

in to the main mix signal (i.e. the output signal of the console, prior to recording) 

of the phones or control room bus. Instead, listen in to the returned signal 

of the soundcard that is connected to the CD/TAPE inputs, in which case you 

have a kind of read-after-write control. In this case, press the CD/TAPE TO CTRL 

switch and adjust the volume level with the PHONES/CONTROL ROOM controller. 

This way you can record further tracks to an existing playback (so-called 

overdubs). In the process, use the Direct Monitoring function of your DAW 

(Digital Audio Workstation).
Determine the amount of the input signals (keyboard, guitar, sound module 

and microphone) in the mono and stereo channels that are to be sent to the 

MON output by using the MON controller of the corresponding channel.