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Originally Posted by chaselangr
Do you give this advice because of latency problems between mic inputs and the firewire inputs? if you could go in depth about this i would appreciate it. Im wondering why, if any, it might be a bad idea to just track everything while using playback through the console (using auxes as monitoring feeds). does anyone forsee this being a problem? also, can sc48 record while it is playing audio back through the console via firewire?
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Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I've not visted the forums for nearly a week.
My caveat is based only on the potential latency using PT native as against HD or HDX. Quite possibly you will be fine, it's just that I can't tell you that from experience as I am an HD user.
Using the auxes as monitor feeds is fine, however, I'm not sure how many returns you get using an SC48 whilst in input mode. In my scenario, I have a Mixrack system and I would be able to return 16HDX inputs whilst still being able to track/overdub, for a lot of my projects that wouldn't be enough without first submixing within PT. From this point of view it is as well to do your mixes within PT itself and just feed monitor mixes back through the HDX. It also has the added advantage that if you are building mixes within PT as you go along they are there for a final mix. Mixing back through the desk itself isn't a problem, however, there are limitations such as automation so unless you want to do everything on the fly you would still be mixing as a combination of PT and the Venue. This may not be a problem for you, however, if it's for an album, the benefit of being able to have the total recall inside the box, for possible mix updates becomes a real advantage.
Either way is possible, it's just that I feel the ergonomics of working my way, suit me better in my experience, YMMV.
Of course, the future may be a more intergrated system where the venue is not only a controller for the mix system, but a controller for Pro Tools, it's not hard to imagine as it's close to this anyway.