Studio Recording - PRESONUS 26x26 FireWire Recording System User Manual

4 Applications and Example Settings

4.4 Studio Recording

In the project or professional studio, the FireStudio is extremely powerful and flexible.
Here are a few typical set up examples.
Create separate headphone mixes for each musician
• Setup your recording software (DAW) respectively to record your input
channels to individual tracks. Doing so is specific to your recording software
(DAW).
• The FireStudio Control Console allows you to create up to 9 separate Mixes for
each of your artists in your studio. You can control what each of your artists
hear and what they want or need to hear.
• For instance, the drummer might only want to hear the click track and a bass
guitar, while the vocalist may not want the drums in his headphones or
monitors.
• Mix 1 might typically be your Control Room mix, the mix that the engineer
wants to hear. Mix 2-9 can be specific to each of your artists and can be
assigned to any hardware output of the FireStudio.
• You can then connect headphone amplifiers and or monitors to the FireStudio's
hardware outputs.
NOTE: you can assign a Mix to any Hardware Outputs with the Quick Output buttons
in each Mixer view and also in the Output/Router view.
audition the audio for any hardware output. Reference audition feature outlined in
section 3.3 Matrix Router and see Example 7.
Mix "outside your computer" using a mixing board or summing mixer
• Connect all hardware outputs of the FireStudio to the line level inputs of your
mixer board.
• Then return the Main or an Aux L/R output of the mixer board to available
input channels of the FireStudio.
The Engineer can also
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