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Quick Mute Headphones Feature?
I love how you can tap the speaker button on the interface to turn it red, and mute the speakers. I wish you could do this with the headphones in some way, maybe a knob press, long press or a double press on the headphone button.
When you are recording yourself or artists. And you want to playback on the monitors. It's a pain to have to go and then manually use the knob to turn down the volume on the headphones. It would be much easier to just press the headphone button in some way to mute them. You could quickly mute back-and-forth between speakers and headphones. For playback after tracking. |
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Re: Quick Mute Headphones Feature?
I do not know of any monitor controller that has either/or switch for speakers and headphones. Everything has mute button for both though. It takes a second to click both, so I have never seen that a problem.
If that is essential to you, there is a solution you can do yourself. First of all you need to route speaker monitoring and headphone monitoring to separate outputs, say 1-2 and 3-4, then have a box that accepts both and only outputs one pair. Toggle the switch, done. Google "passive monitor switching box" and pick your poison. Though most of them also have middle position where both outputs are active. Best ones are expensive because they are really well made, probably even handmade. Or, if you really want to do it in software, here's a trick. Solo safe everything and then create two distinct monitoring auxes (1-2 and 3-4 outputs) with obviously sharing same input. Then set your soloing to X-OR. That way whichever monitoring aux you are soloing will automatically mute the other one. But it also requires that speakers and headphones have different outputs.
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Re: Quick Mute Headphones Feature?
Another option; feed your headphones via sends on your tracks and add a MASTER track assigned to the headphone outputs. Use that master to quickly mute or turn down. Having said that, I have never needed to do what you describe
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Re: Quick Mute Headphones Feature?
I suppose it would nice but since I am going to take off my HP's anyway when I want to listen to monitors. Simply taking them off and I do not turn them down which works for me.
Is the idea that what ever little sound might be heard from the HP would interfere with monitors sound ?
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Re: Quick Mute Headphones Feature?
I appreciate the response is here, but I really think they are overcomplicating the situation.
You can quickly tap to mute the speakers. They should make it so you can quickly tap to mute the headphones. This seems simple, logical, and intuitive to me. |
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And it's far from overcomplicating.
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Re: Quick Mute Headphones Feature?
I've had my Carbon for a year now and never even thought about until someone brought it up in a thread here.
And honestly don't remember if my Omni (for 8 years prior ) had such a feature ?
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https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...-headphone-amp Focusrite makes a far cheaper, but great one also. Like in the $400 range. G
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