Help regarding plugging active monitors into computer?

[brew24]

Hey guy, got a problem and would really appreciate some help...
i've just bought a pair of Yamaha HS50 active monitors for my music production, and and clueless as to how to get them hooked up to my computer so i can make beats??? I've been searching google for like 2 days and theres no clear answer. The input part on the speakers is xlr so what cables will i be needing and will i be needing a soundcard or something???

Thanks for any help, this is frustraaating i just wanna make some beats lol

[Ongelegen]

don't need soundcard to hook em up, but it's recommended tho. Just get stereo 3.5mm to 2x XLR, assuming your build in pc soundcard has a 3.5mm output.

[brew24]

Wow thanks so much man. litirally if you search this on google you never get a clear answer (: will this have panning though? like will the speakers be L and R or will they just be both playing center :/
Would any soundcard do if i were to get one? just a cheap one?

Thnaks again that was soooo much help

[Phase Down]

for soundcards : http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.p ... 644#894644

their not that expensive overall, got myself a lexicon ionix u22 for my krk monitors and its sounding great

[Ongelegen]

Wow thanks so much man. litirally if you search this on google you never get a clear answer (: will this have panning though? like will the speakers be L and R or will they just be both playing center :/
Would any soundcard do if i were to get one? just a cheap one?

Thnaks again that was soooo much help

if you get a stereo 3.5mm then the speakers will be L en R, and panning can be done in your daw

[gr0nt]

I guess nobody noticed that these monitors have 1/4 inch inputs also, at least according to the pictures of the back of the unit on sweetwater.com.

I would use a 1/8mini jack (Male) to two 1/4inch T/S jacks (Male). Your local guitar shack has such things.

Are you sure you can just go from 1/8 mini to TRS like that? I'd assume that XLR input is expecting a balanced signal, and thats why they've included a 1/4inch input as well. Grounding issues since that XLR input has a ground pin, but 1/8mini jack doesn't? Have u done this before, project?

[Ongelegen]

I guess nobody noticed that these monitors have 1/4 inch inputs also, at least according to the pictures of the back of the unit on sweetwater.com.

I would use a 1/8mini jack (Male) to two 1/4inch T/S jacks (Male). Your local guitar shack has such things.

Are you sure you can just go from 1/8 mini to TRS like that? I'd assume that XLR input is expecting a balanced signal, and thats why they've included a 1/4inch input as well. Grounding issues since that XLR input has a ground pin, but 1/8mini jack doesn't? Have u done this before, project?

no i have not, havent even looked if the speakers also had 1/4. I've never used xlr. Before I bought my soundcard i've used 3.5mm to 2x TRS and it worked fine.

btw 1/4inch input is also balaced (atleast on mine monitors), if you use TRS that is

[gr0nt]

Right, and usually theres internal switching inside the jack, or sometimes outside the jack in the case of my Delta 1010, that switches from balanced to unbalanced in the case of 1/4" inputs.

Definitely go with the 1/4 inch OP.

[Ongelegen]

Not with my krk 6s, they got rca for unbalanced

[gr0nt]

Well I wasn't trying to be disrespectful or anything m8, I just have doubts that its going to work going from 1/8inch to XLR like that. I don't know everything either, so it might. But I still recommend 1/4inch, its cheaper for starters.

[Ongelegen]

No offence taken. Yeah it's definitely cheaper, but the op did not state his also had 1/4inch inputs, otherwise I would have recommended those over xlr.

[samkablaam]

fwiw, a stereo 1/8th jack to two mono xlr/jacks wont be balanced, no matter what it says on the monitors.

get a soundcard with balanced outputs and nicer convertors than your standard headphone jack.

[Ongelegen]

fwiw, a stereo 1/8th jack to two mono xlr/jacks wont be balanced, no matter what it says on the monitors.

get a soundcard with balanced outputs and nicer convertors than your standard headphone jack.

i know