Focusrite Clarett 8Pre USB, Руководство пользователя

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4 . Providing foldback while recording
While recording, musicians will often prefer to hear themselves along with the other players, and
when overdubbing, the tracks that have already been recorded. A mix created for this purpose, which
the musician can hear on headphones while performing, is called foldback.
Focusrite Control lets you define several different mixes, each of which may be either mono or
stereo, and which may be routed to any of the Clarett 8Pre USB’s outputs. This enables individual
musicians to have a foldback mix optimised to their own requirements. In this way, each foldback
feed can be made up from a different mix of a musician’s own input, the live contributions from the
other performers, and DAW tracks which have already been recorded. See the Focusrite Control
Guide for details of how to configure different mixes, and how to route them to the Clarett 8Pre USB’s
various outputs.
Each of the two headphone outputs on the front panel initially provide a default mix: Headphone 1’s
mix is always the same stereo mix that is routed to Line Outputs 7 and 8, while Headphone 2 has a
completely independent mix dedicated for headphone monitoring use. You can adjust the content of
both mixes in Focusrite Control - that for Outputs 7/8 defines what is heard by Headphones 1, and
that for Outputs 9/10 (which have no corresponding rear panel sockets) defines what is heard by
Headphones 2.
Either or both of these may be used for foldback mixes; each output can drive a pair of headphones
directly. This is the easiest method, and has the advantage that the mixes are stereo. If you need to
drive additional pairs of headphones, you’ll need to include an external headphone amplifier as part
of your set-up:
Headphone Distribution Amplifier
Always remember - when sourcing monitor mixes from input signals, ensure that the DAW channels
on which you are recording are muted, otherwise the musicians will hear themselves “twice”, with
one signal audibly delayed as an echo.