2488neo effects routing

[david42]

I was reading Harvey's big Mic thread and he suggested a drum technique where you dump one compressor into another compressor.

It sounded interesting, and I started thinking about how I might achieve it. Since I have an external compressor, I thought I might use that through the effects sends and dump it into the internal effects loop in the neo.

I needed to call tech support on another issue anyway, so I asked the tech, and to tell the truth he seemed kind of dumb and avoided anything but vague answers. He said it wouldn't work, but couldn't explain it (and might have had a bad idea of what I wanted to do) and even said I should have no reason to want to. He denied that the external sends can feed the internal loop, or vice versa, but he also denied that they worked in parallel and just left me confused. He had plenty to say about what wouldn't work but never would tell me how it DOES work.

Can anyone explain the relationship between the two effects options and whether one can feed the other specifically?

 

[RAMI]

I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I can't get my head around how. If I had my 2488 in front of me I'd probably be able to figure it out, but I stopped using it a few months ago.

I'm pretty sure it would involve bringing the outboard compressor back into 2 inputs, assigning those inputs to 2 channels, and then sending those 2 channels to the internal compressor. .......I can sort of see it in my head, but it's fuzzy.

(Not to stick up for the TASCAM tech, but honestly, this might be a cool little thing to try but it's not something you'll really need to do very often, if at all.)

 

[david42]

I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I can't get my head around how. If I had my 2488 in front of me I'd probably be able to figure it out, but I stopped using it a few months ago.

I'm pretty sure it would involve bringing the outboard compressor back into 2 inputs, assigning those inputs to 2 channels, and then sending those 2 channels to the internal compressor. .......I can sort of see it in my head, but it's fuzzy.

(Not to stick up for the TASCAM tech, but honestly, this might be a cool little thing to try but it's not something you'll really need to do very often, if at all.)

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking, route the external compressor into two channels and send it to the internal. But it might be that the internal comes first if it's a chain; and it makes a difference because the first compressor gets different settings than the second, so I have to know which is which. I'm not to sure I'll know by hearing it whether I've achieved what Harvey meant. And if they operate in a parallel fashion, I'd just have two simultaneous compressors doing different things.

I do note that there is only one control for an effects send, so that must mean that the one control will turn either on. This makes me think they are parallel, but the tech says NO, definitely not, but he wouldn't tell me they are chained either, and I can't think of another possibility.

If it's as awesome as Harvey made it sound, I do want to try it at least.

 

[RAMI]

If it's as awesome as Harvey made it sound, I do want to try it at least.

Yeah, who am I to say it's not something you'd use. Anything's worth trying, especially if it comes from someone like Harvey.

I actually did on vocals for my last tune and it really smoothed them out without sounding too compressed.