from Cool to Cool

[dobro]

How do I record a track using a previously-recorded track in the same session as the source? (I want to run the track through a reverb unit, which is another issue, but it's the recording from-and-to in the same session that I can't make work.)

I tried soloing the source track and selecting its output as the recording source. It didn't work. Poo.

[crankz1]

If it's an external effects unit, wouldn't you need to run the output of that soloed track through the effects unit and back to an input? Then record a new track from that input.

[Tukkis]

If it's an external effects unit, wouldn't you need to run the output of that soloed track through the effects unit and back to an input? Then record a new track from that input.

Yep thats pretty much the way to do it.
Track Soloed in CEP-->Output of soundcard--> Reverb/FX unit Input---*signal effected*-->Reverb/FX unit Output-->Input of soundcard--> Record onto a new track in CEP.

Also you could either record on the new track 100% wet signal from the reverb and mix that with the dry track already recorded, or balance the dry/wet in the reverb unit itself and that'll be you're main track.

Tukkis

[dobro]

Thank you, gentlemen. I will proceed anon according to your excellent advice.

[dobro]

Yup. That worked nicely.

[chrisharris]

Oh crap...the mod's using outboard gear. I guess I have to use some now. CRAP CRAP DOUBLE CRAP!!!

[dobro]

Yes. Lexicon MPX 500. Sex in a box. Good to my earholes. Eat yor pore heart out, goat roper.

Really. The distance between the verbs in Cool and the Lex is like the distance between good guitars and cheap guitars. You know how the sound in my mixes is pretty dry, right? Well, part of the reason is I like 'dry', but I now realize that another part of the reason is that I just didn't like the sound when Cool's verb got wetter. Revelation time.