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Originally Posted by Roy Harter  What about using external mic-pre's into a DAW? What's the best way to monitor in THAT situation? It seems that latency would be inevitable. Even if you had a console. This is a problem that I've been having lately. I'm trying to bypass the console entirely.
Please correct me if I'm wrong... |
I'm using a Mackie Onyx which has the pres and firewire card. On any decent mixer you have aux sends/returns which can be used to set up a headphone mix. If you are using standalone preamps and no mixer, you have to software monitor - which is why so many people have a mixer.
Thanks NativeAudio for the tip about using only the reverb from the DAW while keeping the monitoring direct from the mixer. The latency wouldn't matter on the reverb as many reverbs have a small delay before starting anyway.