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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Wadden" data-source="post: 108844" data-attributes="member: 2583">Re: X32 DiscussionI have a question and I&#039;m hoping to get some opinions. I often think about the recording process, and the best ways to go about it. I guess I sometimes try to think of treating Pro Tools like a virtual tape machine with the X32. We&#039;ve talked about how &quot;round trip monitoring&quot; is a bad idea, or at least less than ideal. So the recommended approach is to monitor off the desk. Let&#039;s say I&#039;m recording a band, and have already tracked drums, in which all headphone mixes were from the board and had little to no latency, now when the bass player goes to track his parts against the drums, how is the timing affected by him hearing his bass &quot;pre Pro Tools&quot;? Will there be alightment issues? Is there a delay being applied to his drum mix from the software which is not applied to his incoming signal? Does that make any sense?The other thing I consider is this. Is there an advantage either way to creating the headphone drum mix in Pro Tools, then simply returning that to a stereo set of tracks which are then bussed to the performers headphones? Or, more like a true tape machine setup, return each track individually to a track of the x32 and create a mix from there? Any insight would be appreciated, and if there is any needed clarification about what I&#039;m asking about, please let me know. Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris Wadden, post: 108844, member: 2583"] Re: X32 Discussion I have a question and I'm hoping to get some opinions. I often think about the recording process, and the best ways to go about it. I guess I sometimes try to think of treating Pro Tools like a virtual tape machine with the X32. We've talked about how "round trip monitoring" is a bad idea, or at least less than ideal. So the recommended approach is to monitor off the desk. Let's say I'm recording a band, and have already tracked drums, in which all headphone mixes were from the board and had little to no latency, now when the bass player goes to track his parts against the drums, how is the timing affected by him hearing his bass "pre Pro Tools"? Will there be alightment issues? Is there a delay being applied to his drum mix from the software which is not applied to his incoming signal? Does that make any sense? The other thing I consider is this. Is there an advantage either way to creating the headphone drum mix in Pro Tools, then simply returning that to a stereo set of tracks which are then bussed to the performers headphones? Or, more like a true tape machine setup, return each track individually to a track of the x32 and create a mix from there? Any insight would be appreciated, and if there is any needed clarification about what I'm asking about, please let me know. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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