Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 47)

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CREATE HEADPHONE CUE OR MONITOR MIXES
When recording or performing live, each musician will likely need their own custom
monitor mix. The keyboard player may want to hear the drums, keyboards, and some
vocals, but maybe they don’t want to hear the guitarist. Meanwhile, the drummer
only wants to hear bass and vocals. And the vocalist will, of course, only want to hear
themself, at eardrum-searing volume.
If your audio hardware is equipped with multiple outputs, you can create a custom
headphone mixes for individual band members. In the image below, a Send Track
has been added for the keyboard player’s headphone mix. The Send Track’s output is
routed to the Headphone Mix 1 output track, which is routed to a specific output on
the audio device. The level of the Send knobs on each track are used to create a custom
monitor mix for the keyboard player.
The audio hardware’s individual outs can be sent to monitor speakers or headphones.
With enough hardware outputs, each person in a band can have their own custom
monitor mix.
USE VINTAGE HARDWARE EFFECTS IN A MIX
Sometimes classic hardware effects are the only way to achieve a specific sound. In
the example below, a Send Track has been created to make use of a vintage tape delay
hardware effect. The Send Track has been routed to an Output Track, which has been
routed to a specific output on the audio interface. This allows an external hardware
effect to behave the same as a Send Track with an onboard plug-in effect.
The vocal track’s send knob is routed to the Send Track, which is then sent to the
Output track. The selected output of the audio interface is physically plugged into the
tape delay. To return the affected sound to Mixcraft’s mixer, create a new Audio Track,
select a physical input on the audio interface using the track Arm button, and plug the
output of the tape into this. The tape echo’s output can then be recorded. If software
monitoring is activated on the audio track (by clicking the speaker icon with the track
armed), the tape delay’s output will be heard alongside all other mix elements.