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Recording: Cheetham Hill 9 Setup

Here's how to quickly set up mic and headphones in Room 9 in Cheetham Hill/Ancoats. First, connect the USB cable from the Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 interface directly into your laptop, avoiding USB hubs. Make sure your laptop recognises the Scarlett and set it as your Input/Output device, on its Audio settings.

HEADPHONES SETUP

  1. In the big live room, plug the headphones into port 17 labelled "HP OUT". This multi port will go through the wall and into the control room, as part of a 'snake' of cables.
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  2. In the control room, look for cable 17 off the 'snake' of cables behind the desk and plug it into the first headphone port of the top Focusrite Scarlett interface. Use the volume knob on top to control its volume later.
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MIC SET UP

  1. In the Live room, the XLR cable from the mic needs to be plugged into Port 14 on the patch bay box.
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  2. In the control room, there will be a 'snake' of cables coming through the wall behind the desk, with numbered cables. Plug cable 14 into Input 1 on the Focusrite Scarlett Interface.
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  3. Finally, set up a mic track on your DAW choosing Input 1 as the source and you're good to go.

 

How can the person in the booth/recording room hear me talking from the control room?

The only way to do that is to bring your own dynamic microphone (any cheap mic will do) and a mic XLR cable, as we do not provide extras. We will need to set up a talkback mic from the control room into the booth.

  1. Plug your talkback mic and cable into the interface (eg. channel 2 at the front),
  2. Create a new track on your DAW and choose the same channel as the Input source.
  3. Send the track's output to the headphones output your friend in the booth is listening to, ie. first headphones port of the interface (just like in the previous guide).
  4. Every time you will enable monitoring and recording on this mic track, your friend will hear your voice through their headphones.

 

If you cannot set it up to output in their Headphones output (Step 3) it will still work, but you will also hear it off the speakers. In this case, be careful to turn the speakers volume down as it will feedback easily and things will get loud!

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