I've been away from recording for a while but would like to get back to it.
My current issue is this:
I'm recording acoustic guitar with a condenser mic into a Scarlett 18i20 into GarageBand 10.1.6 - (my iMac is too old to update).
After recording a track, I'd like to mute the mic to avoid feedback when listening to playback through my monitors, and I haven't come up with a way to do this. I don't want to physically disconnect the mic, and I could turn off the 48V phantom power, but it makes a popping sound that I don't care for. I don't really think that sound is hurting my monitors, but the sound is off-putting.
I guess I could turn the gain down all the way on the Scarlett, but that doesn't completely mute the mic and I don't like messing with my gain setting after I've adjusted it.
Part of my purpose in recording is to create backup tracks for practice purposes, and I really don't care to do this with headphones on.
I feel like this is a regular recording studio issue and that the answer is right in front of me, but I can't find it.
Any ideas will be appreciated!
My current issue is this:
I'm recording acoustic guitar with a condenser mic into a Scarlett 18i20 into GarageBand 10.1.6 - (my iMac is too old to update).
After recording a track, I'd like to mute the mic to avoid feedback when listening to playback through my monitors, and I haven't come up with a way to do this. I don't want to physically disconnect the mic, and I could turn off the 48V phantom power, but it makes a popping sound that I don't care for. I don't really think that sound is hurting my monitors, but the sound is off-putting.
I guess I could turn the gain down all the way on the Scarlett, but that doesn't completely mute the mic and I don't like messing with my gain setting after I've adjusted it.
Part of my purpose in recording is to create backup tracks for practice purposes, and I really don't care to do this with headphones on.
I feel like this is a regular recording studio issue and that the answer is right in front of me, but I can't find it.
Any ideas will be appreciated!