Hi all,

I have a problem creating the headphone monitoring mix for recording vocals for singer.

The recording input levels are good, but I can't get the mic sound loud enough in the headphones for monitoring in the mix.

- the input level for mic is all the way up
- the software playback level from DAW is turned down
- the headphones physical knob is at maximum (that extreme setting doesn't sound like a proper approach)

* I thought to add dynamics to push the monitoring mic sound.
For that I routed the mic input to unused output (because in my current understanding changing dynamics at the input would affect the recorded input level) where I added gain in dynamics and routed that output to the headphones.
Slightly better.
Experimented more and somehow ended up cue-ing the mic's routed+gained output to the headphones - now the levels were very good in the headphones, though with cue there is only sound from the cue-d output i.e. the mix from DAW is missing.

Looks like I'm doing something wrong but have no idea yet what that is?