Cubase LE anyone? Mic settings?

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Dionna Blue

Dionna Blue

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My mic is plenty loud in my headphones and in audacity, but in Cubase it's barely audible unless I crank the gain and even then it's not pulling the full sound. Is there a setting or something that I need to adjust? There was no manual with this stupid CD. Once I get this worked out I think I'll be in a recordable state!
 
Nevermind I think I found it. There's alitle e next to each track which opens the e
 
Nevermind I think I found it. There's a little e next to each track on the mixer and I raised the gain i guess idunno but it's much louder and still clear.
 
You may get better response in the Cubase forum. In LE you do not get a section in the mixer for input levels. You will have to adjust your mic pre and or interface gain to set input levels. After recording, you can just pull up the gain handle on the recorded 'Event'. The section that shows the waveform. In the center of the event, the little square at top, is the gain control. This adjusts levels before the eq, insert and sends screen (the one that comes up when you click the 'e'. I do not know off hand what this window is called. I should probably find that out......:)
 
Thanks Jimmy,
Yes I found the Cubase forum and was happy to see a lot of other people were having the same issues I was. lol I'm not sure if I'm using the same tools you mentioned but after I record the track and open the mixer there a button to adjust the low shelf, high shelf and parametric. This lets me increase the volume and add back the crispness that was lacking.

jimmys69 said:
You may get better response in the Cubase forum. In LE you do not get a section in the mixer for input levels. You will have to adjust your mic pre and or interface gain to set input levels. After recording, you can just pull up the gain handle on the recorded 'Event'. The section that shows the waveform. In the center of the event, the little square at top, is the gain control. This adjusts levels before the eq, insert and sends screen (the one that comes up when you click the 'e'. I do not know off hand what this window is called. I should probably find that out......:)
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Dionna Blue said:
Thanks Jimmy,
Yes I found the Cubase forum and was happy to see a lot of other people were having the same issues I was. lol I'm not sure if I'm using the same tools you mentioned but after I record the track and open the mixer there a button to adjust the low shelf, high shelf and parametric. This lets me increase the volume and add back the crispness that was lacking.
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I will just mention right here, that boosting eq is never a good way to get more gain. Most of us try to use very little eq boost if possible. Unless it is a trick pony. I almost never boost a stock Cubase eq myself. Getting your gain right before 'any' processing, is crucial to getting good results. :D
 
Now that I have the ART Tube preamp I don't have to do that. This little black box is great. Nice strong signal and totally silent even wit gain. Thanks for telling me that eq boost is not the way to go though.

jimmys69 said:
I will just mention right here, that boosting eq is never a good way to get more gain. Most of us try to use very little eq boost if possible. Unless it is a trick pony. I almost never boost a stock Cubase eq myself. Getting your gain right before 'any' processing, is crucial to getting good results. :D
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if you click the waveform. 5 nodes should appear on it. four corners and the top middle. the bottom two nodes extend or cut down the track size(not stretch or shrink it). The top two corners control fade ins and outs. The top middle one raises the gain of the track.
 
You can also get some gain by 1) 'normalizing' the track, which is in the AUDIO pulldown menu (I think) You will need to experiment with the normalization level. or 2) if you open the compressor ('dynamics' in the INSERT menu) you can raise the level with the post gain, even if you don't actually compress the signal.
 
Thanks for the tips. I have to get better monitors before I can really get into manipulation but thanks for the advice, I'm sure it will be helpful.
 
thanks I see normalization. I don't see an insert menu though. The only one I do see is on the Midi tab and that's something about velocities. Also I don't see reverb. Is it called something else in Cubase? I looked at the VST plug-ins?

clivus said:
You can also get some gain by 1) 'normalizing' the track, which is in the AUDIO pulldown menu (I think) You will need to experiment with the normalization level. or 2) if you open the compressor ('dynamics' in the INSERT menu) you can raise the level with the post gain, even if you don't actually compress the signal.
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Click that 'e' button. The slots on the left are inserts. Click in an empty slot and select effect. Reverb is one of them. :D
 
Ahh my friend the e button, thanks. How do I save the settings so they are applied equally to each track easier than doing it manually every time? Not reverb but like the high and low shelf stuff. I don't even know what that means but #4 puts back the sparklieness that my mic loses. (yes, that's a techincal term lol)

jimmys69 said:
Click that 'e' button. The slots on the left are inserts. Click in an empty slot and select effect. Reverb is one of them. :D
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There are a few ways. Right click on track and 'Duplicate Track', then delete the event and record new. You can save the eq preset fron the icon above the eq, then load it to another track. Or you can secect the track in the mixer, right click and save track settings. Then load them to another. Not to be a dick, but seems you should get some quality time in with the manual and google some youtube tutorials. :D
 
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