Hey!
I bought my 896MK3 but never got to try it out with vocals....when it came to recording my vocalist, I realised he could not hear himself properly as he WAY TOO SOFT in the headphone mix. I never got a chance to set up the reverb either....as a result of this bad mix - we got a poor recording of his vocals for one song.
I ended up buying a cheap ass behringer monitor mix so we could plug in a mic and mix the headphone outs.
...does anyone know how to solve this problem? I basically need extra gain and reverb on the vocal channel on the headphone output!!!
Is there a way i can just raise his level so that it doesn't affect the recorded signal???
BTW...after doin the behringer work around, we got good takes....only that first song sucked!
896MK3 + Vocal Takes/mixes for Vocalist
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Discussion related to installation, configuration and use of MOTU hardware such as MIDI interfaces, audio interfaces, etc. for Mac OSX
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superduck15
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Klaus
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Re: 896MK3 + Vocal Takes/mixes for Vocalist
You could use a compressor in CueMix FX on *the way out*, with subtle ratio, but lo threshold, that will boost
the output...since the the threshold has 'autogain', like some of the older valley compressors.
Take care
Klaus
the output...since the the threshold has 'autogain', like some of the older valley compressors.
Take care
Klaus
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funkmuffin
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Re: 896MK3 + Vocal Takes/mixes for Vocalist
A couple questions: Did you have two sets of phones connected to one jack? That can (and did, in my case) load down the output too much, and there just won't be enough oomph there. In our case, I unplugged the splitter and my phones, and the singer had plenty of volume for his mix -- and he likes it REALLY loud in his ears.
Other question: Did you try to bring down the cue mix, which would make the direct mic level appear louder by comparison, then you could bring up the whole phones mix to make up what was lost in turning down the cue...
I did both of those, but they were both too much of a compromise, so I just went out and bought a Carvin headphone amp. It gives 4 separate mixes, each mixing two stereo sources and it gets ridiculously loud.
I really like the above suggestion about putting the compressor on the mic monitor mix to bring up the level. That's one really good use for that compressor, and a good Idea I wish I would have figured out -- it might have saved me the additional purchase, or at least the hurry to get it up and running.
Other question: Did you try to bring down the cue mix, which would make the direct mic level appear louder by comparison, then you could bring up the whole phones mix to make up what was lost in turning down the cue...
I did both of those, but they were both too much of a compromise, so I just went out and bought a Carvin headphone amp. It gives 4 separate mixes, each mixing two stereo sources and it gets ridiculously loud.
I really like the above suggestion about putting the compressor on the mic monitor mix to bring up the level. That's one really good use for that compressor, and a good Idea I wish I would have figured out -- it might have saved me the additional purchase, or at least the hurry to get it up and running.