How to Use Talkback to the Vocal Booth

Talkback lets you communicate from the control room with someone in the vocal booth through the headphones.

Use a separate microphone track in your DAW and route it to the correct Focusrite headphone output.

In short

  1. Open Focusrite Control.
  2. Select Headphone 2.
  3. Set the custom mix to DAW outputs 3/4.
  4. Create a separate talkback track in your DAW using the control-room microphone as input.
  5. Route that track to outputs 3/4.

1. Configure Headphone 2 in Focusrite Control

Open Focusrite Control and select Headphone 2 on the left.

Set the custom mix to DAW outputs 3/4.

2. Create a talkback track in your DAW

Create a separate audio track for the microphone in the control room.

In the documented setup, this microphone uses input 2.

3. Route the talkback track to outputs 3/4

Set the output of the talkback track to outputs 3/4.

The person in the vocal booth can then hear your voice through the configured headphone mix.

Test before recording

Test the talkback at a low volume before starting the real recording to avoid sending an excessively loud signal to the headphones.