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Muting monitors with Behringer 1204USB

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Raiking

As the title says, I'm looking for a way to mute my monitors when the mic is open on my Behringer 1204USB mixer.
I currently have the 2track output hooked up to my receiver (which is of course linked to my speakers) and the usb output to my pc, but I'm looking for a way to set it up so I can mute these speakers with the press of a button on my mixer.

I was thinking of somehow using the Alt 3-4 channel as output to my computer so I can see which channel is on-air due to the 'mute' LEDs, but I don't know if this output can be monitored at the same time.
 
Lose the Behringer if you can afford it. They make Arrakis look like a high end console by comparison. If you must live with that board, Henry Engineering used to make workarounds for it. The AudioArts Air 1 is a much better small board for broadcast use.
 
Agreed. The air one would be a huge jump up on quality and possibilites. With that being said, there are some options to do exacty what you want to do. On the cheap with a lot of your own wiring, you could either get a multi-pole switch and let it mute the insert by shorting it, open up both right and left audio outputs to monitors, and run a DC on-air light or have a simple switch and a relay with lots of contacts doing the work. If you have a little budget to spend, try one of these: http://www.bswusa.com/Broadcast-Consoles-Broadcast-Tools-MixerBuddy-P8243.aspx With that being said, there is another product from DM Engineering I recently utilized. It was a huge PIA to make it do all I wanted to do. The damn thing wouldn't even provide enough current (because it had a resistor protection of a SS device) to drive a simple relay. I wouldn't bother. Go with the BT version :).
 
This seems to be a continually recurring theme.
"I have a disco/production mixer but I need it to do this, this and this for on-air work".
I spent the best part of a day internally modifying a console by creating a mic muting
bus which controlled a relay to mute the monitor outputs.
It was for a school radio station, and their console was a broadcast type unit, but for some reason
didn't have monitor muting.
You could probably do the same thing with your Behringer, but then you'll find later on that there's
another function it won't do (because it wasn't designed to be a broadcast console) and you'll be looking
for a fix for that.
Eventually you end up creating an on-air console, and it would have been easier and cheaper to buy
a purpose-designed one in the first place.
 
Doing surgery on any of the low-end mixers is a huge pain. I'm using Allen-Heath boards in small, production environments. They sound great and have muting options available externally as well as integrated USB. Nice little boards for the money.
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http://www.allen-heath.com/uk/Products/pages/ProductDetails.aspx?catId=XBSeries&ProductId=XB10&SubCatId=

http://www.allen-heath.com/uk/Products/pages/ProductDetails.aspx?catId=XBSeries&ProductId=XB14&SubCatId=

http://www.allen-heath.com/uk/Products/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?CatId=MixWizard3Series&ProductId=MixWizard320S
 
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