Talkback Best-Practice Setup with Vocal Booth

Nuendo
#1

Hi all

I’m about to order a vocal booth and was wondering, how such a setup would look like from a cable perspective. I’m in a smaller room and have my sound interface hooked up to my computer.

What would I need now:

  • I would need to run an XLR cable from the my interface into the booth and into the mic.
  • I would need to run a cable from my interface output back to the booth for talkback.

Now my question is, what kind of wiring is used for talkback? Do I connect a jack cable to an out on my interface (it has a built-in talkback function) and then run this jack cable into the vocal booth? There, I would need an adapter to connect the male jack cable to the male jack of the headphones. Right? Simple.

#2

Chris,

I think you are overthinking this.

Nuendo Control Room Cue sends => Interface => headphones in booth. (Line level - stereo)
Mic in booth (XLR-mono) => Interface => Nuendo Input.

Fredo

#3

Are you forgetting audio send to the booth?
I would think a stereo feed to the booth could carry audio/click/talkback,
and the XLR cable would carry mic output [mono] to audio input on the interface

#4

Thanks. I think we’re on the same page, maybe I just wrote it in a complicated way. But specifically the cables from interface => booth. What is used here? Thick jack cables? Or thin cinch cables? Or are there 15m headphone cables (mini-jack)?

#5

These are 3-wire balanced line cables.
Cinch are 2-wire unbalanced, which will pick up interferences.

Why don’t you just make your own cables? I don’t think I even used a off-the-shelf cable for hard-wiring equipment.
Usually because we alaways pass through a patchbay …

Fredo

#6

OK, but to get a stereo signal in the headphones in the booth, I have to get 2 balanced cables out of the interface and then have some kind of adapter that puts it together for a headphone.

Kind of like this. https://www.thomann.de/de/cordial_cfy_3_vpp.htm

Sorry if that sounds super basic and stupid. Haven’t done this before, cabling isn’t my strong point. I’m more the software guy :wink:

#7

You need a headphone amp in your Vocal booth.

https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/best-headphone-amplifier-reviews/
Can be something simple, to something more sophisticated where the vocal talent can make his/her own mix from the cue sends you are providing. And then obviously you will need to feed more channels to your headphone amp.

HTH
Fredo

#8

Ah, see! That was my missing link! THX Fredo.