Recording In Capture - PRESONUS StudioLive24.4.2 Owner's Manual

7 SOFTWARE: Universal Control, Capture, and Studio One Artist
7.3 Capture

7.3.6 Recording in Capture

Record-Enabling an Audio Track
Monitoring Live Audio Input
Setting Input Levels
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Capture Main Source Selection
The Auxiliary Stereo Track in Capture is a stereo channel intended
to be used to record a stereo mix from your StudioLive. This mix can
be recorded while recording the 24 individual input channels, so a
mix is available immediately after a live show, or you can use this
channel to route your final studio mixes through the StudioLive.
As discussed in Section 7.2.6, VSL features an Auxiliary Inputs Router
that allows you select which buses you want to record in addition
to your input channels. Auxiliary Inputs 25 and 26 are dedicated
for recording a stereo mix in Capture. However, in addition to
the Main L/R mix, you can selection from any of the following
outputs, buses, and inputs: Sub 1/2, Sub 3/4, Aux 1/2, Aux 3/4,
Aux 5/6, EFX Send A, EFX Send B, Aux Return A, Aux Return B, 2
Track, Talkback, EFX Return A, EFX Return B, and the Solo Bus.
To record to an audio track, the track must be record-enabled,
or armed. Capture provides two Record Enable buttons for
each input: one on the track and on the Meter Bridge.
To record-enable an audio track, click on either the Record Enable
button on the track or on the Meter Bridge. Both buttons will turn
entirely red in color when either button is enabled, and the track's
corresponding meter in the meter bridge should begin to move up and
down if there is live audio on that channel in the StudioLive mixer.
Click on the Arm All button at the top of the Track
Column to record-enable every track at once.
Once an audio track is record enabled, you are ready to record audio to
that track. Refer to the Activating Recording section for more on this topic.
All monitoring of live audio input should happen on the StudioLive mixer
itself as normal. There is no separate monitoring capability within Capture.
Setting the proper input levels is critical to making a good live mix and
recording. The basic idea is to set the input gain on your StudioLive mixer
as high as possible without overloading the input. Overloading the input
will cause clipping (digital distortion), which is particularily unpleasant and
will ruin the recording. This damage cannot be undone in software. There is
a clip indicator for each input on the StudioLive mixer for this purpose.
If an input channel is not clipping on your StudioLive mixer, you can be sure that
there it will not clip in Capture. Refer to the Section 8.7 for a Level Setting Tutorial.
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