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speakers as monitors

Unread post by guitardmb » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:00 pm

Right now I am using my computer speakers as monitors for my recordings. They obviously arent doing much good. So I thought to avoid having to spend a couple hundred dollars on actual monitors, I could use my stereo speakers. I was wondering if this would work. And, if so, how I would go about connecting them to my computer. Keep in mind I have no digital recorder. Just computer software and a small mixing board.

I had the idea of plugging the aux outs in the back of the stereo into the speaker spots on the back of the computer. Would this work right? If not, what other way would I be able to do it?
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Unread post by fatjack » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:16 pm

guitardmb wrote:Right now I am using my computer speakers as monitors for my recordings. They obviously arent doing much good. So I thought to avoid having to spend a couple hundred dollars on actual monitors, I could use my stereo speakers. I was wondering if this would work. And, if so, how I would go about connecting them to my computer. Keep in mind I have no digital recorder. Just computer software and a small mixing board.

I had the idea of plugging the aux outs in the back of the stereo into the speaker spots on the back of the computer. Would this work right? If not, what other way would I be able to do it?
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Unread post by thejoe » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:58 pm

connect the computer speaker output into your aux on your stereo
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Unread post by guitardmb » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:33 am

crash_in_to_me wrote:connect the computer speaker output into your aux on your stereo
Thats what I thought.
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