Talkback - MOTU 1248 User Manual

TALKBACK

Talkback allows an engineer in the control room to
temporarily dim all audio and talk to musicians
during a recording session. Talkback requires a
microphone located in the control room, near the
engineer. Use an external microphone connected
to a mic input (or a line input when combined with
a separate preamp).
Talkback setup
To set up talkback:
1 Route the talkback mic input to a mixer input, as
demonstrated in Figure 4-16.
2 Choose an Aux bus or group for talkback, as
demonstrated in Figure 4-16 with Aux 1-2, and
route it to the outputs feeding speakers (or a
headphone mixer) for the musicians.
Figure 4-16: Basic routing for the built-in talkback mic. In this example, the talkback mic is connected to mic input 1,
which is routed to input 1 of the mixer. Aux bus 1-2 is assigned to analog outs 7-8, which are being used to route the
signal to speakers in the room where the musicians are located.
H A R D W A R E I N S T A L L A T I O N
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You can route talkback to as many buses and/
or groups as you wish. Route them to whatever
physical outputs are needed for your particular
setup.
3 In the Controls panel of the mixer, show the
Legend and the Talkback section (Figure 4-17).
4 For the channel assigned to the talkback mic,
enabled its Talkback source switch (Figure 4-17).
5 For the aux bus you chose for talkback in step 2,
enable its Talkback output switch (Figure 4-17). As
mentioned before, you can do so for two or more
output buses.
Step 2
Step 1
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