Headphones out or USB 1/2 into Sends 1/2?

[pfabian53]

Hey everyone! First post and I feel I may have backed myself into a corner here with the routing on my Helix Floor.

 

TLDR;  Can I route the USB 1/2 inputs to output to the the Sends 1/2 outputs OR can I hear the Sends 1/2 outputs through my headphones?

 

Details:

I lead worship at my church. Every Sunday I play guitar, sing, trigger click/track audio, and use a director mic. I would like to be able to send the following to FOH in separate outputs:

1. Guitar signal

2. Click Signal

3. Track Signal

4. Vocal signal

5. Director mic signal

 

I had been accomplishing the first three easily by routing my guitar signal out of the XLR and my click/track out of the 1/4" outputs (I hook my iPad up with the click and track into USB 1/2 and route them out of the 1/4" outputs).

 

I want to use the Helix to act as an A/B switch for my vocal mic so I can sing and send one output to FOH for room mixing but also speak only to the band through a separate output which FOH only routes to the IEM busses. 

 

I tried to accomplish this by plugging my mic into the mic input and routing it to the XLR outputs. I set up a momentary footswitch to hard pan the XLR outs so that the Left channel could be my vocals to FOH and right could be my director signal to the IEM's only.  In doing this, I had to remove the XLR output for the guitar signal. Herein lies the problem...

 

To find a new output for the guitar I first though to use the Sends 1/2 output and run a 1/4 cable to FOH. However, when doing this, I found that I can no longer hear my guitar signal through my headphones when creating patches at home. 

 

To circumvent this problem, I thought to switch to the 1/4" outputs for the guitar (able to be monitored by the headphones) and then try to move the USB 1/2 routing to the Sends 1/2 outputs. However, I have not been able to find a way to route USB to the Sends 1/2 in the global settings as you can only select Multi, 1/4, or XLR. 

 

Is there anything I am missing here? Can I achieve my output goals as listed above and still monitor my patches through headphones at home?

 

Thank you all!

 

[waymda]

How about using a send for the Director mic signal and using the momentary switch to route the vocal path 100% to that send and the rest of the time allowing 100% to pass through?

 

You won't be able to hear the Director send through headphones at home, but does that matter?

[rd2rk]

1 hour ago, pfabian53 said:

TLDR;  Can I route the USB 1/2 inputs to output to the the Sends 1/2 outputs OR can I hear the Sends 1/2 outputs through my headphones?

 

 

 No and No. BUT - you can vote for these types of flexible routing options over on Ideascale, they've been requested more than once (search and vote for all).

 

@waymda's suggestion sounds like it might work though.