Pro Tools - How to Record Foley and or ADR in CMB 2.124 A/B

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

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

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

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

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

Restart the computer - Recommended!

Click on the power icon in the top Right corner, then select "Restart" from the dropdown menu

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

Open >Applications>RedNet Control 2

Close this window do not need to go through the set up wizard.

Next go to >File >Session Load

Click on No here

Allow 3 Times to access files

Navigate to >Macintosh HD>Users>Shared>

Open the Templates Do Not Erase folder

Open the CMB2 Snapshot 241021

The Red 8 Line I/O control will open the appropriate settings for the Foley session

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.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