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Posted by samiotis on May-19-2006 16:47:

Using headphones with Traktor

Is it possible to hook up my speakers and my headphones using traktor? i tried hooking them up to my audigy they work but when i try to cue it to the headphones it plays through the speakers too.

Posted by Munchy on May-19-2006 17:07:

If the search function works at the moment, try using out, you'll definetly find your answer... I'm just too lazy to get into it all again

The problem you'll have with your headphones is that there's no pre-amp with your sound card so if you plug directly into your Audigy, you'll get mono sound in your headphones and stereo sound from your speakers.

Invest in an external mixer or external sound setup a la M-Audio...

Posted by tvmann on May-19-2006 20:15:

The SB Audigy will definitely work OK with Traktor, I have one. Lots of similar "multichannel" soundcards that support 5.1 sound or more, will work in a similar way. The SB Live which is even cheaper will also work.

Set sound card to 4 channel quadraphonic mode with the CReative SB software utility. Front speakers jack to your actual speakers or amp, rear speakers jack to headphones. Or vice-versa. Both are stereo. Then you need to go into the Traktor audio settings to assign the monitor and master outputs. It can take a bit of diddling to get everything set so it works correctly.

Posted by samiotis on May-19-2006 20:53:

ah ok so i cant actually get 5.1 and headphones without investing to get more things i also downloaded kx drivers which are great. should i hook the headphones up to the orange or black slot?

Posted by tvmann on May-19-2006 21:46:

On my Audigy which is about 3 years old I have the green jack for the speakers and the black one is for headphone I think, but I haven't used headphones on this system for a long time. The 2 jacks should be next to each other, might be labelled "Line 1" and "Line 2".