pretty basic question

[tswsdrummer4]

so ive been looking through threads for awhile but can't seem to find the answer to my question. Im just wondering how to hook up a mic so that i can talk to the artist in the live room when im in the control room. Are there settings on Logic that i would have to mess with?

Thanks

 

[moresound]

I do that with my talk back on my mixer are you using a mixer ?

 

[tswsdrummer4]

well as it stands right now, i dont need to. i just am using a fast track ultra interface.i do have a 4 channel mixer though.

 

[moresound]

What about the headphone distro can you send your voice to them through that or are you not using headphones?

 

[tswsdrummer4]

im not sure how that would work. but yeah, i am using headphones

 

[moresound]

In both the live room and the control room?

 

[tswsdrummer4]

yeah.at this point i dont have moniters, so in the control room as well

 

[moresound]

Well not know much about your set up you could interrupt the headphone line sent to your live room with your mixer and put a mic in at that point and continue with the out put of the mixer with the headphones in the live room. Make sense?

 

[tswsdrummer4]

yep i gotcha.

thanks for the help

 

[moresound]

OK am sure there is other ways but if that works you'll be fine.

 

[dastrick]

I think this would work...

If you can hook a mic up to the interface, then just create a track, set the input of the track to whatever the input is on the interface and click the monitor button on the track. I think this would work. Although I don't know anything about your interface or Logic.

 

[gecko zzed]

I think this would work...

If you can hook a mic up to the interface, then just create a track, set the input of the track to whatever the input is on the interface and click the monitor button on the track. I think this would work. Although I don't know anything about your interface or Logic.

If you are monitoring via the interface, then you should not need to set up any tracks in Logic. Simply plug a mike into a channel of the interface. It will come through via the interface monitoring. Logic will record what tracks you tell it to record . . . just make sure you don't record the track that you have your control mike plugged into. However, this all goes out the window if you only have a two-channel interface and you are using both of them for recording.

If that's the case, use your mixer, either to feed a line into an aux input of the headphone amp, or to a speaker in the control room (which would keep it totally separater from the recording system).

On the other hand, if he is using headphones and you are using headphones, why not bring him into the control room and record from there?

 

[Richard Monroe]

Yo Drummer! Most of us are limited by the number of tracks available, and it is an advantage not to have to use up those tracks for talkback mics. As with all mics, a talkback mic needs a preamp, and then it wants to go to the headphone output in some way. More importantly, we *don't* want track bleed/crosstalk, so the talkback winds up being recorded on some other track. These are among the main reasons that you need a separate amp for headphone distribution.
I use the predecessor of this:

http://www.8thstreet.com/product.asp?ProductCode=31910&Category=Monitoring

but there are much cheaper options, depending on how many channels you need, such as:

http://www.8thstreet.com/product.asp?ProductCode=40687&Category=Monitoring

So what do you use for a mic preamp? Whatever you have. I often use my Zoom H4n pocket recorder, but that small mixer you have would be fine. For a talkback mic, you don't need great audio quality. So for instance, this would work fine:

http://www.8thstreet.com/product.asp?ProductCode=1084&Category=Audio_Processors

BTW- I find that talkback is the only applicatopn where I actually like a mic with an on-off switch, especially if you don't have a separate control room.

So with this setup, the headphone output of the interface goes to the headphone distribution amp. The talkback mic goes to whatever you have got for a preamp, and then to the aux input on the headphone amp. Then you can control everybody's volume level, the talkback signal goes nowhere near the recorder, preventing crosstalk, and if you are good with a mixer, you can learn to build custom headphone mixes for the deaf guy, or whatever. Good luck.-Richie

 

[saads]

If nothing works, learn and only work with artists who know sign language.

 

[tswsdrummer4]

these are all great suggestions, im sure one of them will work.

thank you all!