Stand by, this is going to be take three and rolling. There’s a better way to do TalkBack. In the control room we set a mic that’s always live and only gets sent to the artist’s headphones.
When the track is paused we want the mic open so we can communicate. When we hit play we want it to close. We put a compressor on the TalkBack channel and set it on nuke but we sidechain it to an element in the mix.
I use a dummy track with noise. When the track is playing the compressor will buckle down on the TalkBack mic effectively muting it. Set a fast attack so it kicks in right away and a slow release so the level comes up gracefully.
I like this method a lot. It keeps the artist looped in but it requires you to understand how signal flows, how compression works, and that a sidechain isn’t just a thing to make your track bounce. And if you want some help understanding how all this works reach out to me because I’ve got a class where I can teach you how.
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