Cue mix setup

I'm about at the same point you are, getting all configured for cue mixes...I'm just in the process of hooking up my new Big Knob to the outs of my FW-1884, which I bought specifically for cuemix/talkbalk...The problem I see is, you have connected to the DAW mix inputs rather than the "phones mix" inputs, if I am reading you right....rather than the DAW mix going to your monitors via the Big Knob monitor source selection and the cue mix being routed to the "phones out". You should have output 1/2 as your main mix, going into the DAW mix inputs of the BK, and output 3/4 as your cue mix going to the Phones Mix input.

Sorry if I am not picturing your setup correctly...do you have the source selected as being "phones mix input" or "input sources" for the phones out? When you solo/mute either output 1/2 or output 3/4 what happens?

Also, when you say "Sub" do you mean "bus"? Because if you are just creating subgroubs of channels and sending them to the outs, that could explain it...you want an output bus object, set to 3/4, with the 3/4 output plugged into the "phones mix" of the BK, with the source button in for phones mix, and output 1/2 plugged into DAW mix on the BK. If you want to let the client listen to a playback of the main mix, you just flip the phones source switch to "input sources".


Hope this helps.

In addition to Corso's good advice, I also use the Mackie Big Knob (great device!) and although I don't use the Fireface, I use the software that comes with my Saffire (and differently, my Rosetta) to get my cue mix separate from Logic's output. I'd bet that's the way to go for you too.

Just route your output via the Fireface software so that you're monitoring the inputs prior to Logic. that way, you'll eliminate most latency issues, and have monitoring for your main outs on 1&2 entirely separate from your cue mixes. You can also send clean audio to Logic, yet put inserts in to your cue mix (reverb, amp modelling whatever) for you or the artists monitoring benefit.

By the way, I found a useful trick with the BK. I use the studio outs back in to my interfaces' ins, to route tracks back into Logic on separate tracks. Great for external hardware processors, and sampling audio from CDs or vinyl. Just remember to deselect DAW mix in, and use 2-Tracks A, B or phono for your main monitoring.

OK, now you've got me a little worried...I am, at this moment, soldering cables to hook up the Big Knob, so my response was just based on logic, no pun intended. I haven't used it yet. If I hook up as I described, with the main outs of the FW-1884 into the DAW mix of the BK, and a cue mix routed to outputs 3/4 of Logic and the FW-1884 into the phones mix of the BK, will I have a problem? I shouldn't, for God's sake, that's the way these things are supposed to work...

Also, will the automatic input monitoring of the track being recorded be present in the cue mix?

Is there a way to get effects on a cue track "in the box"?

Sorry, Ambrose, but I think we both showed up looking for the same information.