help w/set-up please! much appreciated

[divinity]

I posted this in other areas, hoping to find someone who sees it.

I am a novice in terms of recording vocals, my question is in two parts.

1: I can't figure out how to integrate my 4 systems. I have: a Shure KSM32 microphone, A lexicon omega pre-amp, a lexicon mpx 100 dual ch. processor, and an Alesis 3630 compressor.

I record vocals ONLY, into Cool Edit pro 2.0 on my computer currently with nothing external(except my microphone and pre-amp). I'd like to set it up so that I can adjust a "real-time"
reverb, and compression, w/my external components, and record into my internal program. I cannot figure out the manual for the MPX-100, and can't get it to work w/my Omega pre-amp.

2:Once, and if, you can explain how to hook it all up, please explain (in lamens terms) how to work each knob of the mpx-100 in accordance w/the omega pre-amp. The books speak as though I'm already "in the know" about many terminologies, and I'm simply a novice. I sincerely appreciate any support that can be given.

I have a book for the compressor and can figure out the knobs on that, just setting that up is all I need help with as well.

Thanks,

 

[divinity]

quick up-date:

basically I don't need to record and do the reverb real time.

I can record dry, BUT

In cool-edit-pro, i don't know how to play with the reverb on my vocal track, while hearing the beat @ the same time......i only know how to grab each individual track, to adjust, in the edit wave view, where you only hear one at a time. my mixing would be 110% more precise if i could be adjusting my vocal reverb while hearing my adjustments, with the beat, in real time.

 

[divinity]

I tried messaging the company, it didn't work.

 

[lpdeluxe]

I tried messaging the company, it didn't work.

Syntrillium is long gone, sold to Adobe and rebranded as Audition several years ago. Abode maintains a comprehensive forum website. www.adobeforums.com

Basically, your difficulty is that CEP itself doesn't allow monitoring while you are recording, so you use the hardware to route the signal to your monitors.

In other words, plug the SM58 into the preamp, plug the preamp into the Omega, run a USB cord to your computer running CEP, and use the headphone out on the Omega to monitor (it is greatly preferable to use speakers rather than headphones when trying to adjust reverb: headphones provide a very different sound field).

If you want to use the compressor, put it between the preamp and the Omega.

Personally, I rarely record with reverb, preferring to tweak effects after the fact when I have a sense of how the mix is working.