Went to local recording studio for help on mixing..weird advice?!

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Hey guys so as alot of you know i took a while out for music..to put my head in the books if mixing and mastering..along the way I bought an apple macbook pro. i'm now between two softwars logic pro 9 and cubase 6 elements. I use two softwares as i like the huge pile of compressors and effects i get with logic, that cubase lacks. i sell my music on fiverr and often use cubase purely for this - it's easy quick and i have presets i know work around my kind of rap vocal style.
However the latest mixing book i got along with obviously posting/learning on here, told me to visit a local studio. I visited my local recording studio and paid them so they could teach me some of what they do with eq etc, and the guy there told me on my focus saffire 6 audio interface as i'm only using my headphones as monitors mainly and TV that i should turn my monitor button all the way off it goes from 0-10, he recommended having it on 0. Is this really good advice..? He said just to watch it on my mixer in my software (my volume and levels)
 
I don't know that interface first hand, but generally the monitor knob fades between direct sound, and computer sound.


Direct sound means you hear the mic, straight up. There is no latency, no effects; It doesn't get processed by the computer.

Computer sound lets you hear processed audio, so there will be latency, but you'll also hear all those lovely reverbs and effects in real time.

Sound ok?
 
Aah right okay..well i went on focusrites site, i couldnt really find much about the mixer, looked in my box theres just a few cds with their own preinstalled software..so i'm hoping to learn here..so the scale of 1 to 10 on the monitor knob will be doing what..pushing it more towards the computer on 10? and 1 more direct?
 
I'm not quite sure what that guy was trying to say...

The Monitor knob on the Saffire 6 controls the volume of any speakers you have plugged into the outputs on the back of the unit. He may have been referring to the Mixer knob, which is what fades between hardware monitoring and your computer's output, but his adivse still wouldn't really make sense...

If he really meant the Monitor knob, then having not be turned all the way down wouldn't have any effect since you don't have any speakers plugged in anyways. If he actually meant the Mixer knob, then having it turned all the way to the "Playback" side would only allow for software monitoring, which isn't usually recommended, and having it all the way to "Input" wouldn't allow for any monitoring of the track you're recording to. So either way it doesn't make sense.
 
weird..my thoughts exactly guitar :s what made me laugh is he said 'dont use recording forums, alot of the guys on there are jealous and wont tell you their recording secrets'..im thinking wtf? lol
 
MasterRS said:
weird..my thoughts exactly guitar :s what made me laugh is he said 'dont use recording forums, alot of the guys on there are jealous and wont tell you their recording secrets'..im thinking wtf? lol
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..maybe he ment them guys that say they never do but 'a db or two here and there'.
 
guitarplayr82 said:
I'm not quite sure what that guy was trying to say...

The Monitor knob on the Saffire 6 controls the volume of any speakers you have plugged into the outputs on the back of the unit. He may have been referring to the Mixer knob, which is what fades between hardware monitoring and your computer's output, but his adivse still wouldn't really make sense...
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That's probably it dude.
 
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