I bought an Allen & Heath ZED-22 FX analogue mixer, and since I got it have tracked everything by way of the "Minimal Signal Path" approach. So far I've only been recording my own material, -on my own.
-However I'm getting to projects soon that will involve other artists, multiple musicians recording and playing to tracks already recorded.
I've looked through the mixer's manual that cite that it is the Auxes (Auxes #1 + #2 in the ZED-22 FX case) -that are to be used as feeds for recording or for "Foldback Monitoring".
-However I have tried the Auxes and what I thought to be every combination of the various switches on the mixer -and can't seem to get a situation where I can use a previously recorded vocal track as a guide track, (that is unusable otherwise itself because of guitar bleed in) and track another vocal without also recording the previous vocal track).
I know that this is a very common practice and that audio engineers often have a different mix for the artist to hear while they're recording, (often with a bit of reverb on their own voice and certain other tracks brought up that will help them in their new track performance), and another dry mix more balanced overall for their own monitoring as tracking engineer.
I bought a fairly good pair of Sony closed-back headphones for that expressed purpose, -so that musicians could hear the music that they will be playing to -without any of the sound of the other previously recorded tracks bleeding into their new track from the headphones.
As this is something that I will have to know how to do I thought that I would get into this now whilst I'm still just recording alone, (and only wasting my own time).
I have to believe that this procedure must be simple enough, -I must of overlooked something ?
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Thrip
-However I'm getting to projects soon that will involve other artists, multiple musicians recording and playing to tracks already recorded.
I've looked through the mixer's manual that cite that it is the Auxes (Auxes #1 + #2 in the ZED-22 FX case) -that are to be used as feeds for recording or for "Foldback Monitoring".
-However I have tried the Auxes and what I thought to be every combination of the various switches on the mixer -and can't seem to get a situation where I can use a previously recorded vocal track as a guide track, (that is unusable otherwise itself because of guitar bleed in) and track another vocal without also recording the previous vocal track).
I know that this is a very common practice and that audio engineers often have a different mix for the artist to hear while they're recording, (often with a bit of reverb on their own voice and certain other tracks brought up that will help them in their new track performance), and another dry mix more balanced overall for their own monitoring as tracking engineer.
I bought a fairly good pair of Sony closed-back headphones for that expressed purpose, -so that musicians could hear the music that they will be playing to -without any of the sound of the other previously recorded tracks bleeding into their new track from the headphones.
As this is something that I will have to know how to do I thought that I would get into this now whilst I'm still just recording alone, (and only wasting my own time).
I have to believe that this procedure must be simple enough, -I must of overlooked something ?
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Thrip