How do I monitor ?

[mr_dee]

Hi everyone,

My question might look a bit stupid to some of you, but there you go.

Suppose I have recorded (as an audio file) a whole backing track and now I want to add singing to it (and record that thriugh a mike).
How can I make sure the singer hears the backing track play ?

If I mute the track(s) containing the music the singer won't hear what is going on, and if I don't, the singing track will record all the music alongside the singing.
I don't mean that the mike will pick it up, I mean that the audio playing will be recorded again on the singing track.
How can I stop this from happening ?

I would be very grateful if anyone could give me some advice here.

Thanks in advance,

Frankie.

 

[Emeric]

I don't quite follow. The advantage of multitrack recording, is that you just select another track to record on, and disarm the record on the other tracks.

Provide a little more info about your setup, sound card etc. and I'm sure someone can help more.

 

[mr_dee]

That's exactly what I mean, how do I disarm record on certain tracks, still having the ability to listen to them ?
As a matter of interest, I have a IBM Aptiva with AMD K6 450 Mhz processor, 64 Mb RAM, Avance Logic soundcard and Cubase 5.0 R1.
You have a point that I wasn't very clear, but when a singer records in a studio he listens to the music through headphones, doesn't he ?
I could use headphones, but I think that the vocal track would still record the music that's on the other tracks, along with the singing.
This is exactly what I don't want.

Thanks anyway,

Frankie.

 

[Emeric]

Hang on a second here.

After recording, disarm the track by clicking on the little box under R in the arrange window. Then select the next track your recording the vocals on, arm it and record.

I'm using version 3.7 still, but Imagine 5 is very similiar.

 

[Emeric]

Yes, use headphones. Feedback as well as bleeding from the speakers will occur.