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Talkback Mic

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2018/07/13 at 2:05 am #72615

Lauren
Participant

I’m having trouble with my talkback mic. It is always live. I’m only using it to talk to the band but I’m having to put a cover over it so they can’t here FOH while they are playing. I’ve got the mic plugged into the talkback input on the console and it’s only being routed to the mixes. There’s a talkback button on the console and that button has no impact on the mic at all. How do I fix this?

2018/07/13 at 8:21 am #72623

Alex A&H
Keymaster

Hi Lauren,

Is the talkback key always lit green? If you press it does it turn off?

Thanks

Alex

2018/07/13 at 1:45 pm #72635

Lauren
Participant

It is not always green. The light turns on and off when I press the button but that button/light don’t seem to have any impact on whether the mic is on since the mic is always on.

2018/07/13 at 2:15 pm #72636

Alex A&H
Keymaster

Hi Lauren,

Have you assigned the Talkback input to the talkback channel (found in Setup > Audio > Talkback) or to an input channel?

Thanks

Alex

2018/07/13 at 3:42 pm #72642

Lauren
Participant

I’ve got it assigned to the talkback channel. We’ve also tried assigning a different mic to the talkback channel in the set up but that doesn’t make any difference either.

2018/07/13 at 3:49 pm #72643

Alex A&H
Keymaster

Hi Lauren,

Could you please forward a link to a video of this behaviour to support.allen-heath.com?

I will look into this further for you there.

Thanks!

Alex

2018/07/13 at 3:52 pm #72644

Lauren
Participant

Yeah, I won’t be able to get it until Sunday but no problem. Thanks!

2018/07/15 at 9:04 am #72673

SteffenR
Participant

that sounds strange… as temporarly workaround you can use a mic with a switch

2018/07/15 at 1:46 pm #72676

GCumbee
Participant

As Steffen says or just plug in a channel and use the mute button. Assign to what mixes you want it to go to. Most of my customers do that. They can’t grasp the push to talk concept for some reason. Plus the placement of the PTT switch on the SQ is not good.

2018/07/19 at 1:12 pm #72810

Yann
Participant

Talk into the mic while looking at the the input meters page. It must be accidentally assigned to an input channel. Maybe one that doesn’t have a strip.

2018/07/20 at 4:40 pm #72840

Lauren
Participant

We ended up having to replace the console for an unrelated issue and the replacement talk-back is working just fine.

2022/03/30 at 2:39 am #106597

Jeremy
Participant

Hello Allen & Heath users and support,

We’re having the same issue with our two SQ6 boards at church, so we use a mic with an on/off switch as a workaround for the FOH board.

After consulting the manual we tried setting up a talkback for our broadcast board this evening but encountered the same issue, and a bug possibly occurred in Source Select. Initially I was able to set it to Talk, but when I made some other changes in the same window, after discovering the “always on” issue, Talk disappeared. I turned off/on the board, but no change. After looking through a bunch of forums I still have no idea what I’m doing wrong.

I’ve attached a few photos if it helps troubleshoot the issue. Thanks in advance!

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