16.2 Very tricky headphones
In a
Subgroup 7 => aux return 3 => headphones 1 | Subgroup 8 => aux return 4 => headphones 2 | ||
Main mix (and)/or | headphones 1 | Main mix (and)/or | headphones 2 |
Active switches: S55/(S82, S77)/S76 | Active switches: S69/(S82, S89)/S88 |
See also fig. 14.4 “Subgroup driven auxless headphones mix” and associated text.
In the above configuration HP1 and HP2 comprise a blend of the main mix,
+Choose to send to subgroups 7 and 8 from channels which are routed to tape from their DIRECT OUT. Otherwise CHANNEL PAN, which will already have been set for recording via another group, is unlikely to be pointing to where you want the cue signal to go. Aux sends 1 and 2 are available as two separate mono headphone feeds, or as a single stereo headphone feed. You’ll need an extra stereo amplifier to amplify the aux 1 and 2 outputs to drive headphones properly.
Overdubbing:
It’s all change. Flip the recorded music onto
Alternatively:
(and probably much more sensibly): use the headphones routine outlined in section 15.2 (fig. 15.1).
16.3 Wet monitoring
It is customary with live recording to lay tracks dry. (Not so with MIDI setups: often a tape track is used to record a complex effect. In a MIDI studio a take is generally MIDI sequencer driven, and hence reproducible should the recorded effected track eventually prove to be unsuitable, in live recording, a great take is irreplaceable! Hence the extra caution when laying live tracks.) With dry recording you will probably want to audition tape tracks with some reverb and/or echo, to get a better idea of how the final mix might sound. By pressing the AUX 3/4/5/6 SOURCE switch (S17), aux buses 3 and 4 are available to the
16.4 Mixdown
All aux sends and subgroups are now available for mixing, as are
+If you have two different instruments recorded onto one track, the mixdown settings for each might be totally different. Set up two
The
17. LIVE P.A. WITH 2-TRACK RECORDING
In this example we'll use the aux sends 1 and 2 for stage foldback, and 3/4/5/6 for
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