Rookie needs helps setting up DJ equipment.

[scrubb]

I'm sorry, I know this is very amateur of me but I'm really frustrated.

I just bought all new gear (owned similar gear 20 years ago - now back in as a hobby) which includes:

(2) TEchnic 1200's
Rane TTM 56s mixer
Yamaha r-s300 receiver
Martin Logic speakers.

I can't get any sound out of my speakers. I bought a yamaha rx-v371 amp a few days. Wasn't getting any sound and was told I needed a preamp. They were right this amp didn't have a phono line. Then I bought NAD Phono Preamplifier but couldn't figure it out. The only way I could get sound through speaker was if I hooked up one turntable to the phono amp. It had two phono inputs but just one ground. One turntable wouldn't work.

Figured it would be best to just take both back and pick up an amp (yamaha r-s300) that had a phono line. Thought this would solve all my problems. But still no sound through speakers (and only one turntable working through headphones). Very frustrated.

The way I have things set up right now is like this:
Both turntables plugged into phono lines and grounded on Rane Mixer. RCA cable running from Rane mixer to phono inputs on amp.

Please, please, please help me. It's been torture to have my new gear for five days now and not be able to use it.

Thanks.

[Alec124c41]

I assume the mixer puts out a line-level signal, so it should feed a line-level input, such as AUX on your amp. It will totally overload a phono input.

Cheers,
Alec

[scrubb]

Thanks for the reply Alec.

So I should go from MASTER OUT on mixer with RCA cables to line in on amp?

[cats squirrel]

I'm not sure, but I think the phono amplifier will only take one deck, not two. The two inputs (if its like my CA P640) is for either MM or MC cartridges, but has to be switched, one or the other. You will have to buy another phono amplifier. I am surprised there are not 'DJ' boxes that have two phono amplifiers in already. The box you mention (Rane TTM 56s mixer) says its switched phono/line input in the blurb, so maybe consult the manual?

You may need to earth each deck to each associated phono amplifier.

Why do you think you need a receiver? A power amp is all that is needed.

[cats squirrel]

note to JaS

maybe a 'beginners'/newbie section is required.

[Alec124c41]

Thanks for the reply Alec.

So I should go from MASTER OUT on mixer with RCA cables to line in on amp?

Yes.
The phono inputs are another matter.

Cheers,
Alec

[scrubb]

so is there not an amp I can buy with two phono lines? Or do I have to buy two preamps. I'll take the receiver back if it's not what is supposed to help. Friggin guys at futureshop know as little as I do.

What do DJ's normally power there equipment with? I'm just a hobby dj keep in mind. Not needing to power a club set.

Thanks.

[Alec124c41]

If the mixer has 2 phono inputs, you are set. If it has one, you can feed another input through a phono pre-amp.

Cheers,
Alec

[cats squirrel]

before you waste any more money, please read the manual. The record decks should plug into the mixer, just set the switches to phono. The output goes to a power amplifier and then to the 'speakers, that's all you will need. [Shoot the people you bought all the unnecessary gear from].

To be honest, 'DJ' stuff is at the other end of the vinyl playing scale from most of us, that's not meant to be a derogatory comment, it's just that for most of us, quality matters more than other things which you may have as priorities.