Plug in mic or put your checked out mic on a mic stand and setup to prepare for recording
Headphones can be found in the headphone drawer in the mix suite CMB 2.124A
Plug them into the Snake
output 3 or 4
Plug mic into input 1 on the snake
Power on Crestron Panel
Press Un-Muted and
Click on REF Levl
Foley TV Program should be what you want selected. This will put image on the TV in the Foley room as well as un-mute the mic input
Restart the computer - Recommended!
Click on the power icon in the top Right corner, then select "Restart" from the dropdown menu
If you see this click Done
Helpful to add the Macintosh HD and Storage Volumes to the Finder Sidebar
Click on Finder in the Dock
Go to >Finder>Settings
Check the Comm-A Computer
Hard disks
and External disks
Check boxes
IMPORTANT - MAKE SURE ProTools is closed. Sometimes the app auto opens - If this is the case the templates for RedNet will not load.
Open >Applications>RedNet Control 2
Close this window do not need to go through the set up wizard.
Click on Add to new tab here
>Add to tab click that button
Next go to >File >Device Load
Navigate to >Macintosh HD>Users>Shared>Open the Templates Do Not Erase folder
Open the CMB2 Snapshot 07242025
The Red 8 Line I/O control will open the appropriate settings for the Foley session
Click OK here
Go to I/O Control & Metering
Turn up >Analogue Outputs 1,2 and 3 to -10
Talk - Back Mic Setup
Check the talk-back mic to talk to talent in the Foley space
Make sure that the talkback mic is in Talk middle selection
To talk to the talent hold two fingers on the touch pad of the mic and the mic will turn red signaling that it has connectivity with the Foley booth and then talk into the mic to speak to the talent. Might need to turn up speaker in the Foley room if level is too low.
Setup the Talk - Back Mic Preamp/Processor
>will adjust the Talk-Back Mic levels in the talents headphones
The preamp section will adjust the input levels of the voice coming in to the talk-back mic
Make sure to set about 45 and that the phantom power 48V is pushed in.
This knob Talk - Vol will adjust the volume out of the Talk-Back Mic to the talents headphones
Use both until the talent is happy with the volume of your voice talking into the Talk-Back Mic
On the Red 8Line software Go to I/O Control & Metering
Should see the levels on Analogue Outputs 1,2 and 3 when talking into the talkback mic as shown here
Check the talk-back speaker in the Foley room (Located above the window dividing the foley room with the control room) Make sure it is on there are volume knobs on the back of it but it should be getting good volume
Headphone Amp Setup
Headphones volume for control room ProTools Out will play into the headphones already connected to Channel #8
Headphones volume for the headphones connected to the Foley Snake in the foley room is controlled using the Output knob on Channel #3 and 4
Should see levels when talking into the talkback mic
The headphone amp should show levels when talking into the talkback micas shown here
Next Open ProTools
Click OK here
Click Allow here
Click Next here
Choose the Red 8Line as the Playback Engine
Click OK
When ProTools Opens click on CANCEL don’t setup a new session we are going to do additional I/O setup FIRST
Go to >Setup>I/O
Click on Apply to all tabs check box
Then click on Import Settings
Navigate to >Macintosh HD>Users>Shared>Templates Do Not Erase
Select CMB 2 Foley io.pio
>Click Open
Choose Yes to Replace existing busses
The correct I/O Setup will open and this is how the input should look
>Input I/O Tab
Note if the settings don’t match make sure you had “Apply To All Tabs” checked
>Output I/O Tab
>Bus I/O Tab
Press OK to close
Then in the same folder
Macintosh HD>Users>Shared (Templates Do Not Erase) double click CMB 2 Foley Rec.ptxt to open the session template
Name your session
File Type .Wav
Sample Rate 48KHz
Bit Depth 24
Settings Last Used
Location save to your hard drive or wherever location you choose and make sure your remember where you saved your session.
There is local Storage in the suite you can use called ProTools Foley Suite Workdrive
Then Click on Create
There is local Storage in the suite you can use called ProTools Foley Suite Workdrive
Then Click on Create
Choose to enable the Video Engine
Click Yes
Once the session opens import your video clip
>File>Import>Video
Navigate to the video clip and choose Open
Choose the Main Video Track as the Destination
Location Session Start
Check the box to Import audio from file and click OK
Click okay to import the audio and save it to the default location
You should see the Video Clip you just imported on the big Sony TV in the mix room.
If you do not see any video then check to see if the BlackMagic Ultrastudio is connected.
Go to Macintosh HD>Applications>Blackmagic Desktop Video open
Desktop Video Setup and you should see
open
Desktop Video Setup and you should see the
UltraStudio 4K Mini connected
If you do not then try restarting the computer after saving your work in ProTools
When the audio for the video file imports make sure the audio is moved over to the GUIDE Track in the session as shown
Note the Guide Track is STEREO so if your audio is Mono then Right click the Guide Track and choose >Split To Mono
Note if the Guide track audio levels are too high or low adjust them on the track so that they match the REF level in the room IOW play the guide track at REF and adjust the volume on the track in ProTools
Click on GUIDE Vol
Once you click Vol the slider will come up for you to adjust
Expand the guide track so you can see the sends
The sends on the guide track are sending out to the talk-back speaker and the headphones
Command click the sends to talk-back or to headphones to toggle them off and on.
Blue = Muted Not sending out sound to talk-back and headphones
Grey = On un-muted sending out sound to talk-back and headphones
Example shown here: sending guide track to Foley headphones in Foley room while muting talk-back speaker
This example is sending REC - mic input to foley headphones
To start recording - select the record track REC input - Press the Green I to enable the TrackInput Monitor
Set the input source
>choose >Interface>Input 1 (Mono) for the mic that is plugged into the Snake input 1
Make sure to press in the 48v button to turn on phantom power on CHANNEL 1 of the mic PreAmp in the rack
You will adjust the red GAIN knob for input recording levels to ProTools
Right click the record button in the transport window and choose QuickPunch
Select the part of the session you would like to record
Once Levels are set press the Red Record Enable button on the REC track
Then press record hit play on the transport window to start recording
When finished recording the session
Go to File >Save session
Then Quit ProTools and copy the session and recorded audio files to box or make sure they are on your hard drive to take with you for editing or mixing.
Turn System off when finished
