How do you Monitor your tracks.

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Erockrazor

Erockrazor

I mix in (2x) real-time
How do you guys monitor your tracks before recording them? My headphones dont offer enough isolation when I'm standing close to a source with volume trying to position a microphone. On top of that, I dont have any sort of control room?

How do you guys monitor what youre going to record? Blast those headphones and move the mic?:confused: Thanks, Erockrazor
 
I have the stuff you don't seem to (full coverage headphones that don't leak much and a control room seperate from the tracking room). Get yourself some closed back headphones. Open ear type leak too much.
 
Set it up and record a little. Then adjust a little and repeat.
I'd rather check it with my monitors any way. If you know what mic positions give you what, once you have a starting referrance moving your mic is like tweeking an eq.


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I'm not sure I fully understand what you're asking; but when I want to hear what i'm playing over the top of previous tracks, I run AUX lines out from my input mixer into a second mixer that recieves and distributes the lines-out from the recording platform....like into a couple unused channels. I can boost the level of what I'm playing over the top of pre-recorded stuff without affecting the input to the platform cuz my phones are in the output mixer...and I can blend to taste.

There's prolly an easier way...but that's what I came up with....without having to mess with latency settings and a lot of other stuff I was afraid to touch.

I don't know what I'm doing too much. But this works.
 
Are you talking about when you are trying to find the best spot to position the mic in front of a loud guitar amp? The guitar amp is so loud it drowns out what you're hearing in the headphones. If that's the case, you probably just have to record a little, then playback to see how it sounds. Keep trying til you find the right location for your mic.

If that's not what you're asking, then, ummm... I don't know....:confused:

Cheers,
 
Agreed with Chili and Freudian...

I tend to just let 'er rip for a minute or two and listen to the playback on the monitors. Headphones, even good ones, can lie. Start on relatively low gain, and bring it up as needed, rather than the opposite. Blowing your gear out generally ends badly.
 
Put the mic on the source. Record a scratch track. Listen on monitors. Move the mic until it sounds good.

It doesn't take too long before you have a pretty good idea on where to put the mic. I find that I don't really even check anymore.
 
I find trained monkeys work best. They allow me to stay at the monitors and will fling thier own crap at unruley musicians on command.
I hate flinging my own crap. I feel it's benieth me:cool:


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