I just bought a mackie onyx 2-2 producer and a sm57 mic to start my first home studio.
The problem I have is that when I plug my headphones into the interface I dont hear what I am recording with the amp. How can I do this? I am asking for it because I want to record multiple guitar tracks and isolate the recording process in my headphones so that the mic doesnt capture the backing track.
There's a control on the front labelled Input/DAW that allows you to blend the direct live input signals with any replay from the DAW -- this is the 'latency-free monitoring' control. By allowing you to listen to the source inputs directly you avoid any delays which occur as the signal is routed into the computer and back again. So to hear your guitar amp via the SM57, you just need to turn the knob towards the Input end of the scale.
As for hearing replay tracks from the DAW, that requires you to send the relevant mix of signals from the DAW to the appropriate output ports of the Interface.
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Re: How can I hear in my headphones the amp signal while I am recording?
Hi Hugh Robjohns , thanks for the advice,I found that button on the interface and it worked!
I am using the waveform daw ( it was included with the mackie), the only drwaback is that when I am switching the button between the input and the daw I hear both of the amp and the backing track pretty low, i have a cheap pair of headphones and I am using an adapter to plug them, might be the problem?
Normally when you use direct monitoring, you want to disable monitoring via the DAW - otherwise you will perceive an echo (because if you don't have effects on the DAW track, the sound emitted by the computer is the same as direct monitoring, but late).
How you disable/enable it depends on the DAW software, but often it's a small button on the track, near the button for arming the track for recording.,
As for the backing track, you probably simply need to increase the DAW master or the playback gain of the track where you have imported it (assuming you are using the DAW to play it).
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