How to record your talent with the Source-Nexus Suite and Pro Tools

This article contains step-by-step instructions

The following setup can be used to record your talent in Pro Tools using Source-Review while in a Source-Nexus Gateway session. This setup will:

Allow your talent to hear your playback without echos.
Allow other viewers in the Gateway to also hear the talent, your talkback, and the playback, all without echos.

What you need

A subscription for the Source-Nexus Suite (this includes access to Source-Nexus I/O, Source-Nexus Review, Source-Nexus Gateway and Source-Nexus Router).
A Pro Tools license that supports the use of 3rd party plugins.

Set up a mono aux input track in Pro Tools.
1. Route the output of the track to “Bus 1”.
2. Place a Source-Nexus I/O plugin on the track.
  1. Select “From Nexus Chat” as the Receive.
Create a second audio track and label it “Record”.
1. Make the input of the track “Bus 1”.
2. Either set this record track to Mute, or set it to an output bus that does not go to your main mix monitor ouput.
Add any other tracks that you need (music background, etc).
Create another track and name it “Playback” - to playback the recorded audio from the “Record Track”.
1. Drag any recording you want to play back from the record track into this playback track.
2. Route this playback track to the same mix bus/output as all your other background tracks (such as music, SFX, etc).
If you do not already have a master fader or aux master for the mix bus/output mentioned in step 4, make a Stereo Master Fader or Stereo Aux Master for that mix/bus output and make sure it directly feeds your speakers control room monitor controller.
1. Place the Source-Nexus Review plugin on the last plugin slot of this track.
  1. On the Source-Nexus Review plugin, select your microphone input on channel 3 of your Pro Tools audio interface as the side chain / key input.
  2. On the Source-Nexus Review plugin, set the talkback microphone input option to “Use Key Input”.

Create a Source-Nexus Gateway session via https://nexus.source-elements.com.
Have everyone who needs to join the session except for the talent being recorded join the session. They should NOT use the “original audio” option.
1. To prevent being captured in the recording when they should not be, they should use the “push space bar to talk” option in the Source-Nexus Gateway.
Have the talent to be recorded log into your Source-Nexus Gateway.
1. Your talent should select the option for “original audio”.
2. They MUST use headphones.
3. They should not have open speakers active while connected to the Source-Nexus Gateway session while using the “original audio” option.
Your engineer should join the Source-Nexus Gateway session as the “Host” with the default settings:
1. The microphone input to the Source-Nexus Gateway is “To Nexus Chat”.
2. The speaker output is “From Nexus Chat”
3. Once in the Source-Nexus Gateway, the broadcast is set to “From Nexus Broadcast”.

Do NOT use the push to talk in the Source-Nexus Gateway.
Make sure your microphone input in Source-Nexus Gateway is always open and not on mute.
You must use the “\” key to open your push-to-talk option in the Source-Nexus Review plugin.
1. The Source-Nexus Review plugin does not need to be open for the “\” key to work for opening your talkback microphone.
Do not open your talkback while recording a take, because, if you do, your talkback will also be recorded.
Do not forget to click “Start Broadcast” in the Source-Nexus Gateway.

You will still need to manually follow:

This is a screenshot of the Pro Tools template mixer and the plugins.

Table of Contents

What you need Step 1 - Configure your Pro Tools session Step 2 - Join Source-Nexus Gateway Final Tips for the Engineer Pro Tools Template