Monitoring; Analogue Recording And Monitoring - Solid State Logic XLogic Alpha Channel Manual

Monitoring

Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring
A major consideration when recording into a host based DAW (Cubase, Logic, Sonar etc) is that there is
always a latency associated with a signal passing through the software.
In a DAW setup it is desirable for the musician and engineer (who may be the same person!) to monitor
the signal before it reaches the computer audio interface. If you wish to monitor the signal after it has
passed through the hardware and software then you will need to run the system with a very low buffer
size to avoid hearing a delayed signal; this is not always possible.

Analogue recording and monitoring

Analogue recording and monitoring
Analogue recording and monitoring Analogue recording and monitoring
The Alpha channel provides a feature which allows one output for the recording send and another for
monitoring, meaning zero latency monitoring can be fully realised. This is achieved by simultaneously
using the Line Output and Insert Send jacks.
Whilst recording a vocalist wishes to hear the vocals with some added reverb and some EQ. The engi-
neer, however is not keen to record with these processes on the signal, but prefers to record the unproc-
essed, dry signal coming from the Alpha channel. In this situation the engineer wants to use his own A/D
converters, so for now the digital connections of the Alpha Channel will be ignored.
The diagram below shows a typical set up for this situation.
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