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calidus
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Guys, help me get this:
how do you add outboard reverb and compression to a dry track?
My idea here is tracking things dry (other then a bit 2:1 compression) and use the effects later on. How do you route the signal in such a scenario?
I guess this is done soloing the desidered dry track and patching a soundcard output into an effect input, then back again?
Wanting to keep this option open kinda doubles up the amount of I/O's needed, am I right?
Also, this way the signal is going to A>D>A>D, is that smart? Or did I get things wrong?
More info and questions to you. Give me some input on this and I'll owe you big time.
I make demos of my own stuff, with occasional voiceover and jingles stuff; I mix in the software and use to track one thing at the time.
I got many different instruments:
mics for vocal and acoustic guitar
one sound module
one outboard fx for reverbs, chorus and delays (single input - stereo output)
one mono channel strip (with s/pdif I/O, AES/EBU and A/D onboard conversion) that I use as a DI box for bass and guitar
Softsynths and softsamples.
a fair choice of VST and DirectX plugins
Soon I'll upgrade to a total of:
4 nice preamps
4 channels of nice outboard compression (like 2 RNC or 1 RNC and 1 DBX something)
4 channels of outboard fx
1 patchbay
I currently own an Echo Mia soundcard, it has very good converters, but I feel like upgrading for more I/O and even better results.
My thoughts:
as far as I can see there's no point in having more than 4-6 I/O.
What do you think? 4-4? 8-4? 8-8?
So far these are the cards I've been eyeballing, but other suggestions are welcome.
- RME Multiface + PCI card and later Cardbus for laptop use
- M-Audio 1814 (shipping soon)
- M-Audio Delta 1010 (end of life product?)
- Egosys Wamirack 192X
- M-Audio Delta 66
- Echo Layla
- Emu 1820M
- Aardvark LX6
- Echo (new products shipping soon?)
Huge thank you in advance!
how do you add outboard reverb and compression to a dry track?
My idea here is tracking things dry (other then a bit 2:1 compression) and use the effects later on. How do you route the signal in such a scenario?
I guess this is done soloing the desidered dry track and patching a soundcard output into an effect input, then back again?
Wanting to keep this option open kinda doubles up the amount of I/O's needed, am I right?
Also, this way the signal is going to A>D>A>D, is that smart? Or did I get things wrong?
More info and questions to you. Give me some input on this and I'll owe you big time.
I make demos of my own stuff, with occasional voiceover and jingles stuff; I mix in the software and use to track one thing at the time.
I got many different instruments:
mics for vocal and acoustic guitar
one sound module
one outboard fx for reverbs, chorus and delays (single input - stereo output)
one mono channel strip (with s/pdif I/O, AES/EBU and A/D onboard conversion) that I use as a DI box for bass and guitar
Softsynths and softsamples.
a fair choice of VST and DirectX plugins
Soon I'll upgrade to a total of:
4 nice preamps
4 channels of nice outboard compression (like 2 RNC or 1 RNC and 1 DBX something)
4 channels of outboard fx
1 patchbay
I currently own an Echo Mia soundcard, it has very good converters, but I feel like upgrading for more I/O and even better results.
My thoughts:
as far as I can see there's no point in having more than 4-6 I/O.
What do you think? 4-4? 8-4? 8-8?
So far these are the cards I've been eyeballing, but other suggestions are welcome.
- RME Multiface + PCI card and later Cardbus for laptop use
- M-Audio 1814 (shipping soon)
- M-Audio Delta 1010 (end of life product?)
- Egosys Wamirack 192X
- M-Audio Delta 66
- Echo Layla
- Emu 1820M
- Aardvark LX6
- Echo (new products shipping soon?)
Huge thank you in advance!