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Why is your Mic Pre running out AES ?? The whole beauty of getting that Rosetta 200 is to use its analog to digital conversion, not some Mic Pre Amps.

To get this system to work optimaly I would switch (if you can) the Mic Pre output to XLR analog, and run that into one of the analog inputs into the Rosetta 200. Then the 200 is doing the coversion, which it should be anyway. I gaurantee the Rosetta 200's conversion is of a higher qualities than that Mic Pre's is. You bought it,, so use it. Even if it involves having to get another mic pre. Honestly the best mic pres I ever heard have NO conversion, and therefore NO digital outs. (via Manley mono mic pre, Earthworks, GML 8304, Avalon, etc..)

For the headphone monitoring, the best thing I have come up with is to get a "source selector" type thing. I have a Studio Com, others are out there as well. It sounds like you have digital monitors if you are also going out digital AES to them.. So be careful to get the right "source selector" for the job. And they have a great headphone system on all of them. Some even have "talkback" feature for your mic booth headphones.

But damn dude, you are running digital in BEFORE the Rosetta, and digital out FROM the Rosetta,,,, why did you even get the Rosetta ?? It is doing no conversion for you !!! The beauty of that thing is its high quality conversion. You have to trust analog a little more, and run analog INTO that Rosetta, and out is another story, if you have digital speakers well then that is it. But you can also run analog OUT of the Rosetta to gain it's quality digital to analog conversion. It's conversion is better than that of them monitors I bet....

Point is-- Use that Rosetta man It's a beautiful piece. Use the Force Luke -- Just TRUST --


Good Luck,, and hope this helps--