Download Appendix D

Exploring the Mbox Mix Control
Try the following steps:
Step 1. Plug a microphone into one of the Mbox inputs.
Step 2. Route this to an audio track in the Pro Tools LE mixer.
Step 3. Record-enable the audio track so that the audio coming in from the Mbox will be
routed through the Pro Tools mixer back out to the Mbox.
Step 4. Now hit the Record and then the Play buttons (or hit Command-Spacebar) to start
recording and count out loud to 10 (or just say anything for 10 s or so) into the
microphone.
Step 5. Then hit the Spacebar to stop recording and deselect the track’s Record-Enable
button.
Now let’s explore how the Mix control works:
Step 6. Turn the Mix control to Input (all the way anticlockwise, to the left).
Step 7. Speak into the microphone. You will hear the microphone directly through the
speakers.
Step 8. Now turn the Mix control to Playback (all the way clockwise, to the right).
Step 9. Speak into the microphone, and you will discover that you cannot hear the sound
directly through the speakers any more.
Step 10. Now hit the Spacebar to playback your recording. You will hear this directly
through the speakers.