I am new at this and don’t know very much about setting this Yamaha Mixer (MG12/4fx) up , I really need some help very confusing to me. I have looked at the book but don’t understand it.
I have been using an old peavey brain and decided to buy this used MG12/4fx , very good shape.
I wanting to hook up a cd player and tape player and a mic and run everything through my mixer and through the peavey brain and to my speakers.
Didn’t know I needed a power amp till I got it.
From what I understand I have to use a power amp to play everything through my speaker and was wanting to use my peavey as a power app.
Don’t know where to plug everything in to use the sliders for volume. to each above.
Can some help me with setting all this up. I know it’s a lot to ask, but I really could use it.
I hpoe I put this in the right place, if not please let me know.
Thank you in advance.
If you are just trying to make a recording on your computer of you singing along to music that you have on CD,
you just need a microphone & headphones and a computer with Audacity running on it.
It is possible to make an exact copy of the music which is on a CD, (aka “rip” the CD), and play that music-file in Audacity as a backing track, whilst you sing along to it, your vocal is recorded as a separate track in Audacity,
e.g. see this YouTube video … https://youtu.be/1b-39uw0D1s?t=2m13s
Power amps are not necessary if you’re just singing: you hear the backing-music in the headphones.