Record Dry/Monitor Wet on UltraliteMKIII

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Record Dry/Monitor Wet on UltraliteMKIII

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Hi!

Device description states "can even record dry while keeping a monitor mix wet for your headphone mixes" but i found no way how to do it.

I use ASIO on XP with direct monitoring from CueMix. I want to use CueMix DSP for monitor compression EQ and reverb of a vocal mic in the headphone, while recording the dry signal. My CueMix FX is pre ASIO send which makes no sense at all...

Thanks for any help!
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Re: Record Dry/Monitor Wet on UltraliteMKIII

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Enable the effects on the UltraLite mk3 outputs, not the inputs. Then you will record "dry" inputs while hearing "wet" outputs.
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Re: Record Dry/Monitor Wet on UltraliteMKIII

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As far as i know, effects can be enabled for individual hardware outputs. So like enabling an EQ for "headphone out" would make my whole headphone mix EQ-ed, right? Or am I missing something?

I just need my vocals compressed to the headphones, not the whole mix.

Thanks for the answer!
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Re: Record Dry/Monitor Wet on UltraliteMKIII

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sp4rk wrote:As far as i know, effects can be enabled for individual hardware outputs. So like enabling an EQ for "headphone out" would make my whole headphone mix EQ-ed, right?
Yes, that's right.

Or you could route the mic input to an unused output pair in the UltraLite mk3's on-board mixer, enabled a compressor on that output, set the Return Assign parameter to that output pair, and then record "wet" Return 1 or Return 2 in the DAW program alongside the "dry" mic input. It's convoluted, but it would work. There may be a better solution, but I can't think of it right now.
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Re: Record Dry/Monitor Wet on UltraliteMKIII

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sp4rk wrote:As far as i know, effects can be enabled for individual hardware outputs. So like enabling an EQ for "headphone out" would make my whole headphone mix EQ-ed, right?
1nput0utput wrote: Yes, that's right.

Or you could route the mic input to an unused output pair in the UltraLite mk3's on-board mixer, enabled a compressor on that output, set the Return Assign parameter to that output pair, and then record "wet" Return 1 or Return 2 in the DAW program alongside the "dry" mic input. It's convoluted, but it would work. There may be a better solution, but I can't think of it right now.
The EQ can also balance the volume of the bass as well as the tremble of the music to have a nice sound through the Klipsch headphone. On the other hand rerouting the Mic input for the on-board mixer is a bit complicated for me. But I will still stick with EQ for a better result.
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