Using a Tascam US-122L to record vocals.

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Hi guys.

Me and my band are going to be tracking vocals on some demo tracks soon and
the problem I have is, will I be able to use the Tascam interface to send a headphone mix to my vocalist in a booth as well as monitor it all through the control speakers at the same time? Because I cant figure it out. It seems to be either headphones OR monitors. Not both. This may be a very silly and simple problem to solve so I apologise in advance if it seems like a dumb question.

I understand cubase has a Control Room feature. But I didnt know if Cubase would recognise the separate speaker and headphone inputs as the tascam is all one unit connected via USB.

Here is a list of equipment I use.

Toshiba Laptop
Tascam US-122L Audio interface - Tascam US122L USB 2.0 Audio/MIDI Interface at zZounds
Alesis 320 USB speakers.
Rhode NT1-A
Cubase 5

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 
You are using the Line Out for yoru monitors? Does plugging in headphones cut off the line out? There is only one volume control for headphones/line out. Maybe you'll need a headphone amp with multiple outputs?
 
Thanks for the reply!

Yea my monitors are plugged in via the Red and White "Line Out" and yea the phones do cut the sound from the monitors off, theres is only one volume which operates both. It is labelled "Phones/Line out" Yeah I have read a few people using them. How exactly would that work? Does it plug into the audio interface? And I presume its is used for purely headphones so me and the vocalist would both listen to everything via two seperate sets of headphones? if thats the case that would work fine!
 
Yeah I thought about that for a solution. Does quality of audio get reduced due to the splitter? I suppose for tracking itself the quality doesn't really have to be perfect does it. As long as I pick up on mistakes and clips etc.
 
I have piggy backed them to allow three people to hear and it worked fine. I use an MAudio Fast Track Pro and just plug it into the headphone jack then plug in another one. I think I got mine at radio shak. They are as basic as they come, brown plastic with a 1/4" male and two 1/4" female jacks.

The audio is fine. For the performer they only need a reference and all of you can hear the exact same thing. Of course standard tracking practice applies. No clipping etc.
 
Awesome! Sounds like it will do the trick! Ill deffinately give that a shot! Thanks for the input Manslick! For the future, I presume i will need to upgrade to some sort of mixing desk to use both monitors and headphone at the same time?
 
Well you could just get a Fast Track Pro. You're mixing in Cubase so all you need is the option to have phones and monitors. Whatever is cheaper. A desk would work too. Depends on your goals.

Actually you may be able to send a signal out of your on board audio out, like your Realtek outs on your laptop. I have done this with my PC to get a surround sound mix. It takes a bit of routing with the interface.
 
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