Question about monitoring

[Hubbawho]

Okay, so once I'm done recording a take and the band wants to hear it through my speakers, what am I supposed to do? I have 16 channels all with mics on them, if I even dare turn on speakers, the feedback will probably blow up my house. I know I could just listen back through the headphones...but isn't there an "un-monitor all" option or something. I just need haven't found a way to mute all of the inputs easily. I know that I can do this one by one for all 16 channels every time I want to play something back, but isn't that a bit ridiculous? Come on, I know I'm missing something here, somebody point me in the right direction.

 

[NYMorningstar]

How is your board set up?

 

[Hubbawho]

if by "board" you are referring to any professional type of mixing unit then I don't have a board. lol I'm just another growing home producer who works with software. don't know if it helps, but I'm running everything through 2 daisy chained Firepods...that's how I have 16 channels. As far as I know, the software controls my monitoring, so I don't think it can involve my hardware. (I have the referance nobs on the firepods all turned towards the "playback" rather than the "inputs." This way, I'm only hearing what is being controlled by my computer.)

 

[NYMorningstar]

what are your monitors hooked up to?

 

[xstatic]

You should be able to cinfigure Cubase to input monitor only when actually recording, adn not during playback. This should be in your preferences section, and may be listed near the "transport" options. What you may want to select is "tapemachine" style monitoring instead of "manual" style.

 

[hueseph]

If you disable recording on all of the tracks you should be able to monitor just the stereo mix. I don't believe you can monitor inputs as well as from disk at the same time from the same track.