Listen Bus: How to activate it WITHOUT affecting the cues?

Cubase
1

Hello Control Room lovers!

Is there a way to activate the listen bus only on the control room, and without affecting the cue mixes?

Here´s what I want to do:

The band is recording on the live room, with their headphone mixes running.
I´m on the control room with the band’s manager and he says: Can we listen only to the singer?

So I think… “the Listen Bus is the way to go”, but when I press the L on the singers mixer channel, the whole band comes to a halt saying their cue mixes stopped working.

I tested it and yes, the listen bus activates for both monitor and cues…

How can I just activate the listen bus on the monitor channel, but not change sound on the cues?

Otherwise, how would you achieve this? How do you “solo” a channel on the monitor channel without soloing it on the cue mixes?

2

No repplies? Bummer :frowning:

3

I have the same issue. The listen bus would be wonderful, but not engaging in the cue mix. Of course I’m using pre-fade cue sends, and no stereo out assigned on the outputs. Everything works really fine except this. To achieve that “can we hear the singer” thing is a nuisance.

4

Hi,

I don’t think there is a way to keep the Listen bus from interfering with cue mixes.
Maybe you have got one spare cue that you could use as CR-Solo cue? That would be the easiest way to solo listen to a channel in CR while other cues go out as expected.

5

That does seem a major design flaw, or, at least, a missed oportunity.