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Originally Posted by danwillmore
I am having problems setting up a click and headphone mix. I am trying to send them to a headphone amp. I assume i need to send it to my Aux outputs. However i can't see them when i got to my sends output section. I have been to setup and I/O settings but can't see my 6 Aux outs. Can anyone help me?
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I thought of this last, but I am copying it to the start of this post so the rest will make sense:
Think of the SL's 16 channels as your INS
and your OUTS and you use the Firewire button on that channel to set it as an OUT (from ProTools) ... If you want to route that channel to a SL Aux (1-6), you use that Aux's MIX button and the FAT CHANNEL encoders. (I'll bet this short part was all you needed =)) ...
I just read your post again and assume you have the things I asked, but how you've worded this makes me think ... well, let me just tell you how I use mine ...
To route ProTools tracks to your SL Auxes, you have to bring them back on a Firewire enabled SL channel and add that channel to the Aux Mix of your choice.
Going through
Setup -> I/O ...
Input Tab -> Left as Default, 1-32 all stereo pairs
Output Tab ->
If you select Default, 1-18 is assigned to your 16 channels and 2 Track In L/R
- I renamed "2TrackIn L/R" to "Main Out"
My MAIN OUT goes to 17-18 which comes up on my SL "2 Track In" and I activate the firewire button on there as it is coming into the board via Firewire.
Your Auxes will NOT show as OUTs in I/O Setup ... What would make it easy IMO would be to delete all the other outs and then add back what you need ... (because they default to stereo and mostly you want mono) ... Setup each mono channel you need and select the output to make it on the matrix.
By example:
Tracking using SL 16.4.2 ...
01. SubKick
02. Kick
03. Snare
04. Snare Bot
05. Hat
06. Rack 1
07. Rack 2
08. Floor
09. SR OH
10. SL OH
11. Ride
12. Room
13. Click (From ProTools [Firewire button active on SL])
14. Bass
15. Guitar
16. Vocal
I have the Furman HDS-6 and HR-6 setup right now, so I have 4 mono channel and 1 stereo channel for all headphone mixes)
Aux 1: Furman Ch 1 Vocal
Aux 2: Furman Ch 2 Bass
Aux 3: Furman Ch 3 Guitar
Aux 4: Furman Ch 4 Click
L/R: Furman Stereo Ch 5/6 Drums
(While tracking the drums occupy the stereo mix in the Furman (headphones), but subsequently it's the ProTools "mix" and is used for overdubs and other sends are used for Furman Ch 1-4, Aux1-4 respectively.)
So, to setup that "Click" in ProTools: Setup -> I/O on the Output Tab click "New Path..." it's mono, call it "Click" ... Pick in the visual matrix which channel you want your click to be in on your StudioLive (I picked 13) and now on your Click track you can select the Output to be "Click" and enabling the Firewire return button on your StudioLive will accept that input from your computer.
After drum tracking is done, then we want to do over dubs.
So as we added a Click output, let's add the others we need. Under ProTools: Setup -> I/O click "New Path.." Pick mono or Stereo and name it what makes sense to you (VocalOut, MonOut1, 2, 3 ... whatever) and then either pick the output of that track or put a send on that track to send to the Channel you want that track returned on.
Simply, you could create (ProTools Outs 1-6) and assign them to (SL channels 1-6) and on each Aux mix turn up the same numbered channel to be that particular Aux Send. Basically, I think the step you're missing is activating the firewire on the channel to get the return ...
To route ProTools tracks to your SL Auxes, you have to bring them back on a Firewire enabled SL channel and add that channel to the Aux Mix of your choice.
I try to get nothing returned from ProTools except what I want because of hearing the latency delay or whatever ... So I make assigns that don't exist in ProTools or have use the MuteTone plugin to automagically handle my input monitoring while tracking for me ... But you can cross that bridge when you get there ...
Disclaimer: I have rambled and been distracted while composing/posting this ... I think your answer is up there somewhere ... If not, I promise any specific question will get a much clearer response ...
Think of the SL's 16 channels as your INS
and your OUTS and you use the Firewire button on that channel to set it as an OUT (from ProTools) ... If you want to route that channel to a SL Aux (1-6), you use that Aux's MIX button and the FAT CHANNEL encoders. (I'll bet this short part was all you needed =)) ...