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Ok - Hi everyone! I have a question which will answer my "missing link" in a recording studio. Let me explain the anatomy of the studio in my head to isolate the question.
Starting at the level of the instrument or mic, I understand them, I get pre amps, I get instrument fx, I get it going to the mixing board....
....I get the mixing board going main out to the PC hardware and to the editing software (or to the recorder built in to a mixing board.
My question lies in between those two. In pictures of studios I see racks of equipment that usually goes after the mixing board.
I understand rack fx used for specific instruments like rack amp emulators for example.
My question is - between the mixing board and the recorder what are the rack items used to alter the general sound of a tracks (in basic ways) and to also be used to alter the mixdown.
I see racks of things, but aside from general fx (reverb, distrortion) etc.. I am totally unfamiliar with what is USUALLY and most COMMONLY used there.
I know compressors and EQ can often be there - but what else?
It's the only part of a bare bones studio I don't know about.
Thanks people! I look forward to learning alot here!!!!!!!!!!
Starting at the level of the instrument or mic, I understand them, I get pre amps, I get instrument fx, I get it going to the mixing board....
....I get the mixing board going main out to the PC hardware and to the editing software (or to the recorder built in to a mixing board.
My question lies in between those two. In pictures of studios I see racks of equipment that usually goes after the mixing board.
I understand rack fx used for specific instruments like rack amp emulators for example.
My question is - between the mixing board and the recorder what are the rack items used to alter the general sound of a tracks (in basic ways) and to also be used to alter the mixdown.
I see racks of things, but aside from general fx (reverb, distrortion) etc.. I am totally unfamiliar with what is USUALLY and most COMMONLY used there.
I know compressors and EQ can often be there - but what else?
It's the only part of a bare bones studio I don't know about.
Thanks people! I look forward to learning alot here!!!!!!!!!!