How do I mute the post microphone sound and just hear pre?
Posted: 01 Aug 2013 02:33
Hard to explain this but i'll give it a go:
It may help first if I explain my setup for web broadcast:
I have a Motu 828 mk2 external soundcard plugged into the PC that I have OnAir installed.
I plug my Monitoring headphones directly into my soundcard.
Here's the issue:
During my broadcast I can hear both the pre and the post sound of my mic voice in my headphones.
Pre being my instant voice, and post being the mic voice with about quarter of a second of latency.
(Hard to talk when hearing this lol)
I tried to make adjustments in my soundcard software mixer controller. I can set it to hear just the
pre instant voice (which comes in on input 3/4 from my voice processor pre amp) by setting the
headphone monitoring to monitor input 3/4 of my soundcard, but then loose the music monitoring.
Setting it to monitor main out again bring bag the music, but introduced the post lagged mic voice.
When I used to have an M-Audio soundcard and was using Sam Broadcaster, I could kill the post mic sound from
headphones so I could only hear my pre mic instant voice.
I remember Sam Broadcaster had the setting on the mic channel call 'Bypass Audio Pipeline' and I think
that is how Sam allowed it to kill the post mic sound; sending it straight to the broadcast signal without
having to hear the latency post mic sound, leaving listening to my pre instant mic sound along with the music.
One other way I tried to get around it was to find away in OnAir to reduce the mic latency on post. Bear in mind that the Motu 828 Mk2 is an expensive hefty Motu Asio card. I tried adjusting the soundcards own buffer setting all the way down to 96 but the lag remained the same.
For the record, the players and the mic settings are all configured to the MOTU Asio drivers. When I have the Motu Asio
drivers in use, I can't find a buffer setting in OnAir to adjust to reduce the lag on the Asio set.
I use this same setup btw in Cubase to record vocals with zero latency?
So in a nutshell, what I am trying to achieve is to have the headphones monitoring my pre mic sound (which is instant as I speak) along with the music, with the post mic sound which has latency, piped somehow to the broadcast web output signal without hearing that in my headphones.
I hope this makes sense because I couldn't sleep last night trying to work out how to set up for the way I need it lol.
If there is a solution which I believe there must be, any chance of a step-by-step guide please.
It may help first if I explain my setup for web broadcast:
I have a Motu 828 mk2 external soundcard plugged into the PC that I have OnAir installed.
I plug my Monitoring headphones directly into my soundcard.
Here's the issue:
During my broadcast I can hear both the pre and the post sound of my mic voice in my headphones.
Pre being my instant voice, and post being the mic voice with about quarter of a second of latency.
(Hard to talk when hearing this lol)
I tried to make adjustments in my soundcard software mixer controller. I can set it to hear just the
pre instant voice (which comes in on input 3/4 from my voice processor pre amp) by setting the
headphone monitoring to monitor input 3/4 of my soundcard, but then loose the music monitoring.
Setting it to monitor main out again bring bag the music, but introduced the post lagged mic voice.
When I used to have an M-Audio soundcard and was using Sam Broadcaster, I could kill the post mic sound from
headphones so I could only hear my pre mic instant voice.
I remember Sam Broadcaster had the setting on the mic channel call 'Bypass Audio Pipeline' and I think
that is how Sam allowed it to kill the post mic sound; sending it straight to the broadcast signal without
having to hear the latency post mic sound, leaving listening to my pre instant mic sound along with the music.
One other way I tried to get around it was to find away in OnAir to reduce the mic latency on post. Bear in mind that the Motu 828 Mk2 is an expensive hefty Motu Asio card. I tried adjusting the soundcards own buffer setting all the way down to 96 but the lag remained the same.
For the record, the players and the mic settings are all configured to the MOTU Asio drivers. When I have the Motu Asio
drivers in use, I can't find a buffer setting in OnAir to adjust to reduce the lag on the Asio set.
I use this same setup btw in Cubase to record vocals with zero latency?
So in a nutshell, what I am trying to achieve is to have the headphones monitoring my pre mic sound (which is instant as I speak) along with the music, with the post mic sound which has latency, piped somehow to the broadcast web output signal without hearing that in my headphones.
I hope this makes sense because I couldn't sleep last night trying to work out how to set up for the way I need it lol.
If there is a solution which I believe there must be, any chance of a step-by-step guide please.