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Hi Guys,

I have been having some trouble trying to record a mix using Ableton and an sl1200 turntable. I am mixing funky breaks, and seem to be having a lot of trouble when mixing from ableton 2 the turntable. because you cant seem to stereo split the headphoe mix I keep losing my mix. I have never had this problem when mixing purely on decks.

Any tips would be fgrateful, although I think I may be having a mixing nightmare at the moment.

You should be able to split the headphone mix. I'm not an expert at the audio routings in Live (and have no idea what kind of audio interace you have) but here is a try:

Go into options -> audio -> output config. Chose 1 (mono) + 2 (mono). Now you can siign individual tracks to either 1 or 2 (ie. left and right).

Thanks, but I couldnt get that to work. I should have mentioned im using an m-audio audiophile firewire.

Thanks again

What isn't working? You can't assign individual outs (only stereo pairs)? Or you CAN assign individual outs, but aren't getting the sound you expect?

Ok, I figured out what i needed to do, and now it works beautifully so for anyone here you go. You've probably figured this out already, but here you are anyway

Create 2 return tracks, and call them cue A, and cue B. Then turn up the sends on your 2 tracks, making sure to send one to cue A and and the other to cue B. Now create a new track called headphone mix, and turn on the headphone button. Now pan your 2 return track left and right as desired and set their outputs to the heaphone mix track, and hey presto!! you have the 2 tracks split.