Cakewalk and effects...

[Lomitus]

Hello Again!
This may sound like a somewhat silly question, but I haven't been able to find the answer in the Cakewalk help files. When running multiple effects on a track...say compression, eq and reverb respectively (i.e. the basics), does CWPA run these effects sequencially? In other words, will it run the signal thru the comp first, then the eq, then the reverb? Or does it just run them through in some kind of random order or all at the same time?

It's not all that important to what I'm working on now, but something someone else had suggested to me on another problem made me wonder.

As always...Thanks!!!
Jim

 

[moskus]

When running multiple effects on a track...say compression, eq and reverb respectively (i.e. the basics), does CWPA run these effects sequencially?

Yes.

 

[Lomitus]

from dumb to dumber question...

Ok...thats good to know. Next question then...and this is probably old hat to those of you that have been doing this a while...can anyone offen any "rule of thumb" suggestions for which order to run effects? I know how I like effects ran on my guitar to amp setup, but I know it's very different for things such as vocal's or master tracks etc.. Right now on my Master's I'm running, in order, reverb, compression, and BBE Sonic Maximizer. It seemd to make sense to me to run the comp after the verb...compress the whole signal...and then run it thru the BBE...does this make sense or is there a better way to do it? I'm also planning to run a little eq on the master...should this go between the comp and the BBE or before the comp? Again, some of this stuff I know...-allot- I am just learning (at least how to do it the right/best way).

Thanks for your collective wisdom!
Greatful as always,
Jim Walczak

 

[crosstudio]

typically you would run the compressor and then the EQ, with the reverb patched in as an aux bus. there is a school of thought regarding whether to do EQ or Comp first. generally, EQ first if all you've got is a big cut (ie.. low cut). Comp first if the EQ is a tone shaping EQ.

if you want the reverb for an individual track, then you would typically have:

compressor --> eq --> reverb as track inserts.

save the sonic maximizer for mastering.