I don't understand outboard gear

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Well, as it just so happens, my professor gave us a signal flow chart in PDF form :). Hopefully this will help some. He's always talking about how important signal flow is, which makes it sort of annoying that my professor before this didn't ever tell us anything about that. I need to know how things work to understand them.
 

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jndietz said:
So is the waveform directly modified by the outboard gear?
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No, not directly. The sound is modified. Which ultimately will change the waveform, once it's captured again on your system.

You're basically just playing the music, running it through a compressor, and then re-recording the processed (in this case compressed) audio. Your computer / interface is "playing" the music from it's output. But instead of sending it to your speakers, you're sending it to the compressor. The compressor is compressing it. Then you're just re-recording that output on your system as a completely new (stereo) track. Same as if you were recording a new vocal track, only you're recording the output of the compressor instead of your voice.

Does that make sense? You might want to take this to the Newbie forum, by the way. There's a lot of basics here that you have seemingly decided to skip! :D

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thebigcheese said:
Well, as it just so happens, my professor gave us a signal flow chart in PDF form :). Hopefully this will help some. He's always talking about how important signal flow is, which makes it sort of annoying that my professor before this didn't ever tell us anything about that. I need to know how things work to understand them.
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Why do you even need that, it should be completely intuitive......


jndietz said:
So pretty much, the chain would look something like this?

Interface -> (insert your favorite line of outboard gear here) -> PC?

So is the waveform directly modified by the outboard gear?
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You got it!

wreckd504 said:
What tricks is that NL5?
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Listen to "Mother" by Pink Floyd - The breath in the beginning in particular. Think about how that was accomplished. It's sorda what I was talking about......
 
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