aux channel function?

[Rusty K]

Would someone take the time to help me with the aux channel function? I just used it for the first time to apply some verb to several tracks but somehow the verb sounds different. I guess I need to know how to fine tune it to get the same effect mix that I was getting on the individual tracks. The manual is rather vague.

Rusty K

[Gidge]

Ill try a quick one....first, at the top of the mixer, set up your effect in the window.....get the parameters set the way you want.....

then, slide the slider (in between the master channels effect window and the auxillary effect windows) between 1 and 10...I usually push it pretty high up.....

then, if the effect is set up on aux 1, then you have to go to the aux1 fader/slider for each track that you want to pass through that auxillary and use the slider to show how much of the track you want effected....all the way up is 100%....also, you have a fader so that you can pan the effect....for instance you can have a guitar track thats panned left, butpan the reverb to the right (can you say Eddie Van Halen).....

this is a very bad explaination,but i hope it can help....if you still cant get it, email me a phone number and ill try and talk you through it....

[Slackmaster2K]

I typically set the send to aux volume at 100%. With plugins, I can't think of any good reason not to send 100%, and I can think of at least one reason why it would be a bad idea though.

Slackmaster 2000

[Rusty K]

Thanks...

I had gotten them to work ok with the plug....it was just the different sound of the plug at the same settings which was throwing me. I read the manual and it suggested start with send at 0db. Maybe I read it wrong but that's what I thought it said. I guess I just need to experiment a bit more.

Slack......and that on reason it would be a bad idea is......?


Rusty K

[Slackmaster2K]

Well, it all sort of goes back to the digital fidelity debate which has been hashed and rehashed. Sending the track untouched at full resolution to an aux plugin chain just seems to make more sense.

It's not like you can overdrive the input of a plugin anyhow; and I can't think of a situation in which sending just a little bit of a track to an aux channel would produce wanted results. Of course controlling the return is completely necessary.

Slackmaster 2000

[Rusty K]

Got Ya Slack!

Thanks
Rusty K

[Slackmaster2K]

Man I'm an idiot. If you're sending multiple tracks to an aux channel then of course you'll vary the input from each track in certain situations. Cripes all mighty.

Slackmaster 2000

[Rusty K]

Yes I was Slack...so you mean to vary the level of the effect on each track? Now I'm confused again wouldn't the return slider do this? Sorry I'm so thick.

Rusty K

[Gidge]

yep, you have to use both....put your return volumes all at 100% and then use each individual auxillary volume sliders up to the desired point....you can bring them all up to the same amount, or different amounts, whatever is desired.....