15.2 Headphones
While auxless headphone monitoring (see section 14.2) is still an option (and a pretty good one), a small general purpose studio might require a more straightforward way of working using one or two discrete headphone mixes. Here, it would be best to keep aux sends 1 and 2 free for monitoring purposes until mixdown time.
Aux returns 3/4/5//6 can be routed directly to headphones 1 and/or 2. A good idea would be to drive HP1 from a combination of aux return 3 (S55) and
+With the headphone configuration shown below, there is no easy way to get FX returns into the cans. Bring these back on A or B channels instead, until mixdown time.
Fig. 15.1: Headphones
15.3 Mixdown
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16. PROFESSIONAL 24-TRACK STUDIO
16.1 Recording
Chances are you’ll occasionally want to record more than eight tracks at once, e.g. you’re recording a band playing together live. The following example covers a rock band with drums, bass, two guitars, percussionist, brass section, lead and backing vocals. In the real world, you’ll hardly ever be taking all these artists at once, but if you are:
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