Metronome getting recorded

[josephst9]

I have a yamaha mg12xu connected to my pc. The audio is routed back to the mixer which is connected to yamaha hs5 monitors. I have been trying to use the metronome on live music recordings. My issue is that the metronome gets recorded on each of my tracks. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

[Bob Howes]

Your mixer is sending the metronome back into your computer along with the new audio you're trying to record.  There's a rather badly written section about this on page 28 of the user manual (available on the Yamaha site to download if you don't have a copy.).

Basically you can simply turn off the feed from the computer by turning off the ST switch on the channels which represent the USB return.  However, since you probably want to hear the metronome (and any pre rec music) your other solution is to turn down the fader for the USB channels and use a pre-fade Aux send to generate you headphone mix.  Basically, you'd have the mic fader(s) up, USB faders down but the pre fade aux knobs turned up on both the mic and USB channels.  You may need to have a headphone amp to make this work but Behringer do one for around $30.

Bob

[ryclark]

As far as I can see on that mixer you could just make sure that the USB return channel is routed only to the Group 1-2 and not to Stereo. Also make sure that the Group fader is not routed to the Stereo output. Then you can select Group in the Monitor section to listen to and you should hear a monitor mix of all the channels selected to the Group 1-2 fader with only the Stereo output minus the USB return going to your PC to record.