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The freeze/unfreeze is exactly what I'm looking for - yet another feature I didn't understand properly. Thanks everyone!

So keep the amp sims on each track, and route the delay/verb to an FX bus.... that should hopefully clear up enough CPU so that I can actually listen through the song without it crapping out on me! Cheers!

This sounds more like what I want to do, since it seems the delay is causing all the CPU hogging. What about an amp sim? If I have 2 guitar tracks that use the exact same amp sim with the same parameters, should I use that in parallel (send both tracks to an FX bus) or in serial (on each...

OK, I'll go ahead and record another take. And I would just copy the FX from the first guitar track on to my new one? There's no way I can share the same FX with two different tracks since they'll be the same? Cheers!

Thank you!!! I never noticed the Freeze feature before, looking into that now! As for doubling up on the guitar track, doing a simple "Duplicate track" won't really achieve what I'm looking for? I was thinking I could duplicate it and then nudge it 1ms or something to get the same effect, but...

Hey everyone, I'm looking for some help to use the best strategy to double up tracks and manage the effects to minimize CPU usage. I want to double up a guitar track. The guitar track is using an amp sim (FreeAmp3), TAL Delay, and some EQ. When I click "Duplicate Track" to double it up, it...

Cheers mate, really appreciate your friendliness and help :)

The off to the EQ I go :) Have you ever used any amp sims? Would you recommend any? That one I'm using, FreeAmp3 is pretty damn good, but a bit of a resource hog. When I have to load it up on 3 or 4 different tracks, it really starts to eat at processing power. But I suspect most amp sims would.

You're help (and everyone else's) has been extremely helpful - thank you again! I'm not going through an amp (I don't own one - I'm a drummer who has picked up guitar, so I'm limited). I'm plugging my guitar directly into my TASCAM, and then applying an amp sim VST. So all my analog guitar...

Thanks again for all the tips guys. I've re-recorded a song with things turned way down, and I'm amazed.... The drums are crystal clear. It's night and day. A different topic I'm sure, but are there any good tools (other than one's ears) to "carve out" niche frequencies for each instrument...

This is the amp sim I'm using: Download Free Amp simulator plug-in: Free Amp 3 by Fretted Synth Don't seem to see an input/output control, but I'll dig around to see if I can find one.

The problem is, when I turn down the volume knob on the guitar, I lose my distortion because the signal is too weak, even when I crank the drive on the distortion.

Hmmmm.... Yeah, the wave is literally almost a complete flat line, with a few very small bumps to indicate strumming. Like, really small... I'll try and get a screengrab of it, cause I think it might be too small, but again, I've been doing this wrong all along so maybe not. EDIT: Not my...

So I tried recording last night with all my gains off, and tried tracking some guitar where the highest level was around -10dB on the Reaper track.... and it was terrible. I'm using a distortion VST, but it needs a strong signal to, well distort. Because the signal was too weak, the distortion...

Right, turn it down on the Hardware, not the software, I understand. So I should probably start with all my gain knobs on the TASCAM off, and then gradually raise each one until they're peaking around -10dB on the corresponding track on Reaper.... Correct? And if a mic is peaking with the gain...

Makes sense. So what is your process for getting instrument levels before tracking to make sure you're not too hot (or not too soft)? For me, all my track faders in Reaper are flat at 0, and the trims on my TASCAM 1800 are set to middle. The I start hitting the snare for example, seeing if it...

Tjank you so much... these articles look like exactly the info I'm lacking!

I do have some tracks that clip, mostly the odd snare transients, maybe a few guitar stums here or there. When I did a raw play through without effects, I had a max peak of +6 or something on the Master bus. :/ I'm definitely recording too hot I think.

Ah ok that makes sense to me :) is there a limiter VST you can recommend for the task?

Gotcha... so the key is really to leave lots of headroom to work with after the tracking has been done. Now I have to go back and re-record everything, because all my tracking was way too hot apparently :( Fuuuuuuu....