let's talk about these buttons down here
the green and red listen and mute
buttons on each channel of the road
caster pro 2. personally i'm always a
fan of using physical buttons and
switches when possible because i really
do think that they make things easier
but
i'm not entirely sure if this counts as
officially mixed minus but it is a
solution that can help sometimes using
the listen and mute buttons to create a
sort of mix minus scenario can be really
helpful especially if you're not
recording directly into the road caster
pro 2 like right now i'm recording this
audio directly into the road caster pro
2 but if i'm just running through this
into another application especially
where somebody else is like calling or
being a guest into that application
that's where this can come in really
really handy and i've used it a lot on
the original road caster pro as well
something very important to remember
though is that the green listen button
will only affect the headphones out of
channel 1. so whoever has their
headphones connected to headphone output
1 that's the only person that's going to
hear the effects of the listen button
and basically what that does is it just
sort of solos the audio from those
tracks so what i recommend doing is
pressing the green listen button on any
channels that you do want to hear so
let's say for example on usb chat which
is this one right here let's say that i
do have someone here and i want to
listen to them and then of course i want
to hear myself because why would you not
want to hear this wonderful voice
because why would you not want to hear
this wonderful voice
there we go this also does disable any
effects that might be enabled on the
track so you just hear the pure clean
input coming from whatever channel it
happens to be the next thing to do is to
press mute on the channel that you don't
want to send back out so in this case if
i had somebody from like a facetime call
or something coming in through this
channel i would mute this and it would
sort of create a mix minus situation
where i'll be able to hear them but they
won't be able to hear themselves coming
back out of the input but they also
won't be going to the actual recording
on the roadcaster pro 2. so if they were
on a separate application and i was
using the road caster on application and
we were recording through the computer
into that application that's when this
scenario would work really well if
you're not worried about echoes or
feedback you could just record in
multi-track and then it really doesn't
matter what's coming into each channel
because you can just disable or delete
those channels afterwards when you
import your audio but it's important to
remember mixed minus whenever you're
dealing with somebody else where they
could be negatively affected by audio
being sent back out from the road caster
but this is also where the road caster
pro 2 can do something really
interesting that the other road caster
pro can't do and that is if i press the
mute and listen button on my channel
channel 1 and the mute and listen button
on another channel now they turn yellow
and what this does is this now creates
back channel communication so this isn't
totally related to mixed minus but it
kind of is and it's also a very cool
feature basically what that means is now
all the people who are highlighted
yellow those are people who can talk to
each other and hear each other without
affecting other people or the final
recording or the final output so let's
imagine that we have someone on channel
4 and they're talking about something
but i also have people on channels two
or three and while this person is
talking i need to talk to these people
without disturbing them or messing up
the output i can just press
both of these we can talk to each other
and we can hear each other but it's not
going to affect anything else or go into
the final recording until i turn that
off and that's all predicated on channel
one being the main channel so if i press
these two things on other channels
nothing happens but as soon as i enable
both of them on channel one that's when
it turns yellow and now we can have that
back channel communication so if you
were feeling a bit mixed up about this i
hope i was able to minus some of the
confusion to help you get the most out
of the awesome road caster pro 2. and
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