Studio recorder with talkback

[Russinating]

We've got a sound recording booth at the office and we're looking for the best solution for recording and talkback. We've already got a condenser mic that trails out of there which currently goes into a Zoom H4N with two headphone outputs, one for the artist and one for the studio guy.

We tried going straight into the PC and using Audition but there was quite a bit of latency for some reason. Neither solutions also allow talkback to the artist.

We're looking at something like the Presonus Monitor Station V2 but wondered if there was a better solution that went directly into a PC via a soundcard or similar, as that station would still recording onto the Zoom or a PC but with potential latency issues.

Thanks!

 

[Russinating]

What are you actually recording? Voice over or podcasts ect? You need a decent mixer to be honest with good preamps and options for input and output, i'm not really a fan of the zoom product range.

Also what interface are you using to use Audition?

Recording voiceover. The recording we did before sounded absolutely fine quality-wise - it's a decent Rode condenser in an acoustic treated room etc - it was just a bit of a clunky way of recording and we didn't have a talkback function.

We can use any interface with Auditon, but we used a 3.5mm into the mic jack previously.

 

[Russinating]

You are going to need more kit thats for sure.

Yep, hence the thread. Anything better than the Presonus Monitor Station V2 though?

 

[Russinating]

Audient ID22

Talkback,
Separate Cue mixes
Superb preamps.

You don’t need anything else.

Looks good but says it's MacOS only and we're W10.

Edit: Take that back, review I was looking at was outdated.

 

[Russinating]

We got the Audient iD22 but we're struggling to get a stereo input from our Rode mic. I've emailed them but in the meantime any ideas @Cerberus or @easyrider ?