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mac pro hookup for audio monitor
Hey Guys,
I monitor my FCP audio through my Matrox box…out to a Mackie 8 channel mixer.
I need to listen to audio from my MacPro sometimes…so I routed it through the mixer via a mini-plug to unbalanced 1/4 stereo plug into the mixer.
Problem is…there’s some buzz…very light…but I’d like to eliminate it. What are you guys using? D/A convert the toslink to balanced?
-Jason
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9 Replies
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I use the balanced analog outputs from my AJA Kona LHe. No buzz.
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[Alan Okey] “I use the balanced analog outputs from my AJA Kona LHe.”
Jason wants to monitor his mac directly, not FCP. I have the toslink out to a convertor to SPDIF and then into a router which comes to my amp’s SPDIF input. My rooms also double as audio post so I have all sorts of digital sources to route & monitor.
From the Mackie, are you going to an amp? Many amps have toslink and SPDIF inputs so if you patch the mac to them, you simply change monitoring on the amp and voila, clean signal.
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To monitor COMPUTER audio?
Is that in system prefs?
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No…the Mackie I’m using directly out to headphones or Control room monitors…no amp.
I’m thinking there should be a box to convert Digital to analog balanced. That’s all I need…doesn’t seem that crazy.
-Jason
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[Michael Gissing] “Jason wants to monitor his mac directly, not FCP.”
FYI, you can also monitor Mac system audio through a Kona card. Just select the Kona in the System Preferences audio pane.
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[Alan Okey] “FYI, you can also monitor Mac system audio through a Kona card.”
Ahh, thanks for that Alan.
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Interesting…the only options with a Matrox is Line out/digital out/internal speakers
That’s actually a pretty big selling point for Kona over Matrox…wish I’d have known that before I bought 2 matrox boxes!
-Jason
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yup system prefs -> sound. Same works with the Blackmagic cards 🙂
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Thought I’d update this post…
Matrox came out with new software (v2.0) that enables output of the system audio through the matrox hardware…similar to what we’ve discussed here.
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