How to use my desk mixer for monitoring?

[cactusdistro]

Ive been using this holiday by experimenting my new mixer. Its Phonic "helix board 12 firewire", which means i dont need audio interface to record to the computer... here is the mixer: http://www.phonic.com/en/helix-board-12-universal.html

But I have a question.. how can i do the monitoring and mixing using the desk mixer, not the software mixer (am using logic pro now).
I read that i can used the alt 3-4 channel to connect the mixer to the audio interface and return the signal back from the DAW to any of the channel line input.. I read it here: http://www.tweakheadz.com/how_to_hookup_a_mixer.htm .

But thats it means that only one channel on the desk mixer can be adjust, instead of the whole channel? How can i select every single channel on the desk to be able to mix the output from the DAW (for monitoring)

The question is:
Do i need to get the audio interface?
And what is the appropriate connection should i used?

Hope anyone can help
CHEERS

 

[logicdroid]

Hi,

Your mixer is for recording instruments and not for mixing. If you want hands on mixing on a piece of hardware, you'll need to buy a MIDI controller eg: Mackie/Logic control/Behringer BCF2000 etc.

You don't need to buy another audio interface as your mixer is already one.

Bestwishes.

 

[kongwee]

For monitoring, you could send Aux 1 or Aux 2. These two are mono. For alt3-4, dunno really sure cos the manual take too long to download. Alt 3-4 look like a stereo sum bus to me, cos it say stereo bus. You can connect your headphone amp to the Alt 3-4 for extra monitoring. Lastly, you have to find out which output is the stereo bus if you wanna sum everything inside the mixer, then record into DAW.

 

[blueprintstudios]

congrats on your new audiointerface/mixer and welcome to soft

it's not "you don't need an audio interface" ,that thing is an audio interface + mixer in one.

you'll need to read up your manual abit more to play around with your control room source , aux etc etc. don't know which output jack has what signal/sound-playing-out-of-it? my own personal method is to have my iphone > input to mixer playing music , take a headphone and plug the audiophallus into every output hole you can find on the mixer eventually you'll get the idea.

p.s : make sure you also have read http://tinyurl.com/diyrecording , yes I know it's recording, but the difference between monitoring and recording is not pressing the record button. read what works for you.