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Old 03-10-2023, 10:10 AM   #1
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Default Combining 2 devices - Reaper on PC / ASIO4ALL

Currently I have a home studio only for my use - a PC with Reaper on Windows in control room connected via 10m (30 ft) long USB cable with Audient ID4 in recording room. I operated Reaper remotely by phone while recording myself and it worked superb.

Recently I decided to invite a vocalist, so I need a talkback in control room and want to listen to the vocal during the session. The best coming to my mind is ASIO4ALL and combining Audient interface with USB headset in CR, BUT the headset is limited to 48 kHz, so I can't capture Audient at 88.2.

Should I buy second Audient? Upgrade Audient to some sound card with remote part connected via LAN cable? I have some budget for that.
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Old 03-10-2023, 03:54 PM   #2
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You could move your interface (and the vocalist) into the control room, maybe?
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Old 03-10-2023, 11:18 PM   #3
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The con for going aggregate device with that USB headset would be sacrificing stability of the system. Not to mention the limitation of the USB headset for latency with the live audio.

The con for moving into the control room would be... Well, I'm not sure what that might be but I'm sure there's a reason for the current setup/rooms!

Headphones running wired off line level always works. There's no snooty audio considerations over the headphone connection like there might be for a mic and mic preamp. So I'd just wore up the headphones with however long a cable is needed. The long cable will be fine for the headphones for this. Compromising system stability or moving rooms seems very unreasonable next to just grabbing a long cable for the phones.
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Old 03-10-2023, 11:53 PM   #4
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Take the interface into the control room and use a 10m XLR cable to the microphone.
The interface has another mic input for a talkback mic and a headphone socket.
Avoid the USB headset.
1 interface on 1 computer at a time. No problem.
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I'm all about leveraging aggregate devices for audio work. That's how this is done! But this example calls for appropriate cables only. A USB headset just isn't a device that can be used for live audio monitoring. It also would have no way to reliably sync to external sample rate clock.
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You could move your interface (and the vocalist) into the control room, maybe?
I have very loud CPU and have hooks in bedroom's ceiling for kind of fabric recording booth.
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Take the interface into the control room and use a 10m XLR cable to the microphone.
The interface has another mic input for a talkback mic and a headphone socket.
Avoid the USB headset.
1 interface on 1 computer at a time. No problem.
Nice. What about headphones in bedroom? 10m long cable will give you HUGE losses.
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Old 03-14-2023, 02:46 PM   #8
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Or just lower the sample rate. 88.2 is an overkill.
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