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3 Recording
3.3 Using Your StudioLive as an Audio Interface
FireWire Sends and Returns
3.3. 1
Note that either channel of the stereo pair can still be accessed on a mono track in your host
application; only the routing must be assigned as a stereo pair. For instance, if you have a backing-
vocal group routed to Subgroup 1, and a guitar group routed to Subgroup 2, you would create two
mono tracks in your recording application. The track whose input is assigned to Subgroup 1 will
record the backing-vocal group, and the track whose input is assigned to Subgroup 2 will record
your guitar group. If, however, you have a stereo drum group assigned to Subgroups 3-4, you can
create a stereo track in your recording application and assign its input to Subgroup 3 and 4. For
more information on subgroup mixing, please see Section 5.4.
The obvious exception to this principle is the Talkback Mic input. The talkback-microphone input
has the same high quality XMAX preamp as the channel inputs, and the Universal Control Device
Window allows you to assign it to one of the stereo FireWire sends. In this instance, the same signal
will be printed on both sides of the send. In your recording software, you can create a mono track
and assign it to either side of the stereo FireWire send to which it is routed. Both FireWire sends
receive the same mono signal from the talkback-mic preamp.
Please note that you have access to both the Internal Effects Send group as well as the Return. If
you record an Internal Effects Send (Aux Send A & B), you will be recording the unprocessed or dry
mix of the channels being sent to that internal effects bus. To record the processed mix, you will
need to choose the Internal Effects Returns (FX Return A or FX Return B). This is the direct output
from the internal effect, so it will be 100% wet. Because of this, you may wish to record both the
dry and the wet mix so that you can blend them to taste within your session.
Section 3.3.3 discusses how to select the sources for these eight stereo FireWire sends as well as
the other features in the Universal Control application.
Each of the StudioLive's 16 inputs are hardcoded
to receive their respective FireWire returns. Outs
1-16 in your recording application route these
playback streams to their respective channels
on the StudioLive (that is, the software's Output
1 always goes to StudioLive Channel 1 input and so on). Once you route a track in your recording
application to play back through one of these outputs, it will always be accessible on its channel by
simply pressing the FireWire Input button.
To provide you with the most flexible mixing
environment, the main mix output for any
application should be assigned to Outputs 17
and 18. These FireWire returns are hard-coded
to the FireWire input buttons in the 2 Track In and Monitor sections of the StudioLive. In this way,
you can monitor the main output from your recording application without using two channels on
your StudioLive, leaving the other 16 outputs available to be routed to the Fat Channel or for
inserting a plug-in on a live instrument (see the next section for more details).
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