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4. Providing foldback while recording
While recording, musicians often prefer to hear themselves along with other players, and when
overdubbing, tracks that have already been recorded.
Focusrite Control lets you define several different mixes, each of which may be either mono or
stereo, and can be routed to any of the Clarett+ 8Pre’s outputs. This means each musician being
recorded can have a unique mix. In their mix you can include any hardware inputs on the Clarett+
8Pre and combine them with DAW tracks, such as click or pre-recorded backing tracks. See the
Focusrite Control Guide (obtainable from focusrite.com/downloads) for details of how to configure
different mixes, and how to route them to the Clarett+ 8Pre’s various outputs.
Each of the headphone outputs on the front panel initially provides a default mix: Headphone 1’s mix
is always the same stereo mix routed to Line Outputs 7 and 8, while Headphone 2’s mix is always
the same stereo mix routed to Line Outputs 9 and 10. You can adjust the content of both mixes in
Focusrite Control - that for Outputs 7/8 defines what is heard by Headphones 1, and that for Outputs
9/10 defines what is heard by Headphones 2.
Either or both of these may be used for a musician’s mix; each output can drive a pair of headphones
directly. This is the easiest method, and has the advantage the mixes are stereo. If you need to drive
additional pairs of headphones, you’ll need to include an external headphone amplifier as part of
your set-up:
Headphone Distribution Amplifier
Always remember - when sourcing monitor mixes from input signals, ensure the DAW channels on
which you are recording are muted, otherwise the musicians will hear themselves “twice”, with one
signal audibly delayed as an echo.
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