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STEP 9:

In this step, we will examine the options available for listening to the DAW return.
First, we need to bring the DAW return into the channel:
‰ If the Master Channel is no longer assigned to Channel 16, reassign it using the upper
‰ Press the INPUT FLIP
the LINE IN to the DAW RETURN. The button will switch colour from green to red, indicating the
new input selection, and the LED indication to the right of the
to DAW. The CD signal will also disappear for now.
‰ In the DAW, loop the audio you have recorded, activate the record punch-in facility and press Play.
The signal you recorded in Step 7 should now appear in Channel 16, and therefore in the monitors.
Next we are going to examine a more advanced way of listening to the DAW which you will find helpful
when recording:
‰ Press the
‰ Press the
‰ Now press Channel 16's
‰ Now press the AUTO MON
button.
‰ Press Stop and Play a few times. You will notice that when in Play, you can only hear the DAW and when in stop the CD
player comes back.
We will now create an artist's headphone mix using the SuperCue function which employs the
drop-in monitoring function: when the transport is in Play, the SuperCue sums the channel send and the DAW return. It then
mutes the DAW return when in Record for a drop-in, so that the artist does not hear their own signal delayed by the DAW
latency.
‰ In the CUE ST area of the Master Channel, press the
the SuperCue monitoring function for Channel 16. It will light green to indicate that it is active.
If you listen to the artist's headphone send using the engineer's headphones, you should now hear both the audio coming from
the CD player and the looped audio coming from the DAW.
‰ Press Record to punch in, and you will notice that the DAW return has been muted.
‰ You will be relieved to know that you can now stop the DAW playback!
Note that for the
each DAW track output must be set to send to the Matrix channel which is feeding its input. For more details of the
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button at the top of the Master Channel to switch the channel's input from
INPUT FLIP
DAW MONITOR
located below the channel strip's pan pot (shown left). Both the Master Channel's
button and the channel strip's
between the DAW and the CD. The colour of the
selected: green for DAW return and yellow for channel output.
button above the
DAW MONITOR and SuperCue functions to switch between corresponding DAW sends and returns,
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button again to return to monitoring the LINE IN.
button beneath it. This enables the
TRK button light up to indicate that DAW Monitor mode is active.
TRK button a few times and you will hear the channel's monitoring source flipping
DAW MONITOR
S-CUE button (at the bottom of the above-right graphic) to activate
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TRK button also indicates which monitoring source is
button. This allows the Play button to control the
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