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Keeping your talkback on track

Keeping your talkback on track - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Real Recording School Weekly

Keeping your talkback on track

- [Instructor] This should be obvious, and it might not apply to someone who only works on music alone, but when you're helping someone record music, your interactions with them are very important. Nowhere is it more crucial than the conversations you have over a talkback system in the studio, even in an informal home setting or a small studio. In most cases, like the typical studio setting, it's a way for the engineer or producer in the control room to communicate with the musician or musicians in the live room, and it's usually coming over their headphones. The key here is to be aware of the isolation that is occurring. You have sent an artist into another room, probably in front of one or more microphones, to do something that is likely rather difficult to perfect and you've isolated them from everyone in the control room, who can hear everything they do very clearly, and made them wear headphones. It's all isolation.…

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