Hello, I have a question about talkback routing.
Normally, I only have one announcer, but soon I’ll have two, maybe even three at the same time.
If I create 3 cue ‘mixes’ and have 3 microphones in the control room, with their independent inputs, I haven’t been able to get talkback 1 to go to cue 1, talkback 2 to cue 2, etc.
Any ideas? Is it not implemented this way?
Best regards!
Why this routing? The talkback is for the people in the recording room hearing everybody from the control room. So everybody in the recording room(s) should listen to the talkback.
Instead of this just create individual inputs and route them to the cues.
Send all 3 people the same mix. Done.
Do you need three cue mixes? Most radio / podcast stuff is one headphone mix, no?
Indeed, everyone in the recording room should hear the talkback.
Unless you want to say something “improper” or something else only to one of the people in the recording room. Doing this would involve a few more clicks (deactivating the talkback for that/those specific cues).
What tim_heinrich says would involve creating and managing the talkbacks from the mixer, and that way you wouldn’t be able to have the auto-deactivate when recording.
I thought this possibility might be in some hidden menu, but I see that it isn’t.
In my opinion, my “idea” makes sense because otherwise, why have 4 cues and 4 possible talkbacks? So, one talkback should be enough..
For that, you’d need small mixers, each with their own talkback mic, and enough “send” buttons so that the user could send their voice only to whom they selected, plus an “all” button so everyone could listen to that voice.
On the fly commentary is almost impossible for a mix engineer in another control room to be able to mute / unmute, even when they can see everyone’s faces…