Tascam Us-1641

[brewster1]

Hey, BudmanRocks,
I finally got my US-1641 working with Mixcraft 4.0. The previous latency that we had when overdubbing is no more. Did the following:
Installed the v1.02 Firmware and Software driver from the Tascam website.
Still used the monitor outputs at the rear panel into my headphone amp, but dropped the latency level in the settings window down a click from the default level.
Seems to be okay now, even with my crappy old Dell Latitude. Thanks for your help!

[BudmanRocks]

Originally Posted by brewster1

Budman Rocks,
Thanks for the reply. On the headphone issue, is it safe to run the headphone output into a headphone amplifier? Will the power coming out of the headphone jack, since it's already amplified, overload the outboard headphone amp?
And what is the difference between what's coming out of the headphone jack and what's coming out of the monitoring line outs on the back panel?
Thanks!

Yes is it safe to run a headfone amp off the headfone jack on the Tascam.. The headfone jack is not setup for overdubing. The monitors out is. I run the monitor outs in to a stereo channel on my mixer and then I use the headfone jack on the mixer. It has more volume. I have a Behringer 2442fx mixer which has 4 sterei channels. Line 1 & 2 goes in 1 and line 3 & 4 goes in another and monitor outs go in another stereo channe. It sounds awsome hooked up that way for me. When I'm doing my over dubs I just unmute the track my monitor outputs are in and mute the one that has my main outputs. No latency......Works great for me this way...

[rocknrollrissa]

I've had good luck with mine so far. Lots of I/O for the price.