Newbee with a question

[b1slum25]

I have a Canon T3i with ML installed.  I am trying to figure out how to monitor my audio live with headphones and am coming up with nothing.  Does anyone know if there is a way around it?  Everytime I put the AV cable in, the screen goes blank. 

[SDX]

You've activated headphone monitoring as well as audio overwrite?

[b1slum25]

On the T3i there is no audio menu so there is no way of activating that option. 

[b1slum25]

I have read a post somewhere that the "nightly version" has a fix for this?  Has anyone tried it yet?  Remember it for the Canon T3i

[SDX]

Oh, sorry, I didn't expect you did run the 2.3 version.
I don't think there is any on the forum here who doesn't use the nightly.

[600duser]

A lot of people use an external microphone with a splitter to monitor the sound via headphones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7dZO-myHP4

ZOOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnJ1Bab9Pao

While  its extra money and hassle it does give you much better audio quality as the external mic is powered. Not all external microphone widgets have a headphone monitor jack.  Im looking into this right now and i will be going down the external mic route for  headphone monitoring  of my canon 600d T3i