How can I shut input instrument up?

[YanKleber]

I am having monitoring problems with Reaper when recording an electric guitar solo.

I need to hear the backingtrack through my loudspeakers and the guitar through my Vox amp (but the guitar will be recorded clean). I want to do this way because then I can set the Vox overdrive, delay, etc, and get all the necessary guitar "feeling" to produce the solo. At the meantime the guitar signal will be recorded clean and then I can use Guitar Rig or whatever on it later.

OK, I have a Behringer preamp Mic-100 (1 in and 1 out) that has XLR AND P10 jacks for in and for out then I can use it as a "splitter". So I plugged my guitar into the P10-IN, and then I stretched a cable from P10-OUT to Vox amp and another cable from XLR-OUT to the audio interface.

The problem is that when I play the guitar clean sound is coming through the loudspeaker along with the backtracking and it is very annoying, specially because it comes louder than the whole track. How can I shut it up?

Thanks!

 

[BroKen_H]

If I understand the question correctly, you should just be able to hit the mute button on the guitar track in Reaper. It will still record, but will not play back.
In Reason, you specifically have to turn on the monitoring for any armed track...

 

[RAMI]

On a track you're recording, you shouldn't be able to hear it if you don't hit the little "Loudspeaker" under the red record button. That's your input monitor, and it turns green when you hit it. So, just don't hit it and you should be ok.

But, like Broken said, muting should also work.

 

[ashcat_lt]

Course you also have to make sure to defeat any on-board monitoring capabilities that your interface might have. That might be a knob on the front that goes from "input" to "computer" or some software crap that came with the interface.

 

[RAMI]

Course you also have to make sure to defeat any on-board monitoring capabilities that your interface might have. That might be a knob on the front that goes from "input" to "computer" or some software crap that came with the interface.

True. I didn't think of that because I don't monitor from my interface.

 

[fat_fleet]

Turn down the input track on whatever software mixer comes with your interface.

 

[YanKleber]

Guys, I had tried to 'mute' the track and also to set the 'monitor' to off on Reaper, but actually I was getting the input sound even without to have any track armed for recording. Anyway...

Course you also have to make sure to defeat any on-board monitoring capabilities that your interface might have. That might be a knob on the front that goes from "input" to "computer" or some software crap that came with the interface.

Cool, thank you!

There is this really tiny switch on the rear of the interface labeled as 'Monitor on-off' that I never had aware of. My bad. Since this interface is completley plug-and-play, has no driver to be installed and worked as soon I plugged the USB cable I never bothered to read the manual. Actually I don't remember if it even has a manual! Anyway, the switch was 'on' (probably by factory default) and changing it to the 'off' position did the trick imediately!

 

[ashcat_lt]

Today's machines and interfaces can run pretty low latencies, and I haven't yet found a reason to use hardware monitoring. I guess a really sensitive drummer (if that's not an oxymoron) might feel the delay, but then a drummer usually doesn't need to hear his kit in the monitor mix.

 

[YanKleber]

Today's machines and interfaces can run pretty low latencies, and I haven't yet found a reason to use hardware monitoring.

True. All my back tracking is programmed on Fruity Loops so no problem with them. Now I don't know if my system has a real low latency or if there is some kind of automated compensation (I am not an expert on recording, I just do this) but every time I record my guitars and vocals they always end exactly where they should and I rarely have to make any adjustment!