Hey, I’m using the control room for the first time, as I’ll need to use the cue send function to record somebody else in a studio. I’ve routed the monitors through the control room and disconnected them from the main output tab, but when I activate the cue send, I seem to be getting the cue send coming through the monitors as well as the headphones. I’ve managed to get my head around every part of the control room, and the sends are going to the headphones perfectly fine, but I still seem to be getting the audio for the cue sends doubling over the main mix. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Hi and welcome to the forum,
Which Cubase version do you use, please?
The Cue mix is independent from the Monitor mix. Do I understand you right, you want to send the signal to the Cue bus only, but not to the Monitor? What is the use case?
Hey thanks
I’m using cubase 12. Yeah, I want to send it to the cue bus only, and not have it come out of the monitors. I’ve got a headphone amp, and I’ve sent the cue mix to an output on my interface. Say I send the drums and bass, the drums and bass are coming through and I can adjust the level in cubase, but as i do, they’re also coming through again in the mix from my monitors.
I think the general idea is all based on a traditional control room in a traditional physical studio. In that scenario you have your speakers in the control room and they typically are always on. You send specifically to your Cue mix bus and from there to the booth where the talent is. Both paths can be open at the same time because your actual audio outputs are in different physical locations - no risk of feedback.
In the case that you want to do this within the same space, within the control room, then you could just turn off the monitors.
Thanks for the response! Yeah of course. I’m testing it out currently as I’ll be recording in a new studio next week, with access to my DAW of choice (Cubase). I learnt how to get this working through Pro Tools in a different studio, but I’ve never used cue sends in Cubase. I’m essentially just trying to figure it out before I get there so I don’t waste time, haha.
There’s probably something stupid I’m completely missing (as it always seems to be), or maybe I’m not using the right stuff, but I figured it would have worked the same way. Hopefully it will be fine on the day.
Ok, are you still unclear on something?
I’ve figured it out. It was coming out of SSL 360. Just a fader I needed to mute in that program.
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