Mic signal gets out of speakers when recording

[longname]

Whenever I hit the record button my mic signal just go through my speakers. How do I turn it off? The only way I can think of is muting the tracks, but there are so many tracks in my session. It's really annoying when I mute and un-mute them every time. I'm using Pro tools HD 11.3.1. And it seems like the Input monitoring button is useless in this situation.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by longname

Whenever I hit the record button my mic signal just go through my speakers. How do I turn it off? The only way I can think of is muting the tracks, but there are so many tracks in my session. It's really annoying when I mute and un-mute them every time. I'm using Pro tools HD 11.3.1. And it seems like the Input monitoring button is useless in this situation.

Like you found out you really can't do what you want. How else are you going to monitor your vocals while recording (unless you're using a console before going into the recording chain)? This has been a long-standing issue with those that use external monitoring setups.

Are you on a Mac? There's Mute Tone but I don't know if it works with PT11 and later OSX versions although it does say it has aax support but doesn't say whether that's aax32 and aax 64 or what. See this page: http://www.tritonedigital.com/index....hk=1&Itemid=20

[albee1952]

Turn your speakers off and wear headphones?

[longname]

Originally Posted by musicman691

Like you found out you really can't do what you want. How else are you going to monitor your vocals while recording (unless you're using a console before going into the recording chain)? This has been a long-standing issue with those that use external monitoring setups.

Are you on a Mac? There's Mute Tone but I don't know if it works with PT11 and later OSX versions although it does say it has aax support but doesn't say whether that's aax32 and aax 64 or what. See this page: http://www.tritonedigital.com/index....hk=1&Itemid=20

Yes, I am using a Mac. I will try out your suggestion.
when I hit the recording button, I can hear my voice while recording. So I don't know why AVID made an I monitoring button. It seems to be useless. In other DAWs, when the I.M button is turned on, you can hear your voice. Otherwise you can't

[longname]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Turn your speakers off and wear headphones?

Yes, I tried. By doing so, what is the meaning of having a green I.M button ?

[Darryl Ramm]

Input monitoring allows you to hear that track when you do not want to record it. Kind of the opposite of what you seem to want it to do.

[Darryl Ramm]

So maybe I'm dense but I'm not following why you are really concerned here. Do you have an analog console or outboard monitoring system involved here?

If it is not the Mic signal "getting out of the speakers" then the rest of the mix your talent is singing over will get out the speakers as well and bleed into the Mic. If you done want that to happen mute the whole output or use headphones.

If you are just routing all signals through to the them main output then Pro Tools is doing a very reasonable thing. The main mix monitors need to be playing everything coming in by default... if you don't want the then having to mute an track makes sense.

In "real" recoding environments that signal is in the control room, the talent is wearing headphones or IEM or whatever, they are not listening to the main mix and their performance over speakers. Likely getting a separate cue mix feed to those headphones/IEM.

If you have to then muting a track is surely not that hard, how many mics do you have to deal with when tracking? Just slide that track to the top while workign so you can find it. Or use track colors, groups and arrange/hide tracks you are not recording to make it easier to work with.

Or for whatever reasons you have some number of tracks and you need to mute them then group them and mute/unmute them as a group. Or bus them all through an aux input and use the mute on the aux input.

Still kind of lost what the problem is here in the first place.