2-Minute Tutorial: Setting up a Mix-Minus in TriCaster Advanced Edition
By Jim Bask
A common production need is for various mixes of the audio minus one or more items. This is called a mix-minus. Some example cases, for new producers:
- On-air talent has an earpiece to hear directions from the control room as well as all other show audio except the talent’s own audio, to avoid them hearing themselves as a delayed echo, which can be disconcerting for the talent as they try to speak
- When conducting a Skype video interview using a TalkShow, you will want to send the show audio back to the caller without the caller’s own audio, same reason as previous
- In a live venue such as a house of worship, you might want to isolate one aspect of your production’s audio and send that to the house audio mixing board. One example would be to isolate the audio output of the DDRs, so that when you are playing pre-recorded video for the congregation, the house mixing board can at that time play just the DDR audio, leaving out the rest of the audio feeds present such as mic’d speakers and musicians. This tutorial will show how to set up a mix-minus in TriCaster Advanced Edition software for the 8000/860/460/Mini models; the same steps work in NewTek IP Series and TriCaster TC1.
For this tutorial, our demonstrator works through setting up a mix that excludes the audio from DDR2, a channel with a TalkShow caller. To do this, he goes to the Audio Mixer in the UI, and mouses over the DDR2 level meter column. This makes the Settings gear become visible. Clicking on the gear opens the Configuration panel for DDR2 Audio….-read more