My Rack Setup

[leaversday]

Whats up all

I have the following rack setup for home recording and would like some advice on the correct way to hook everything up within the rack itself.

My equipment:

1. Presonus Firepod
2. Lexicon MX200 Signal Processor
3. Alesis 3630 Compressor/Limiter
4. Behringer HA4700 Headphone Amp

My thought would be:
Firepod Preamp Outputs-->Input to Alesis 3630 Compressor/Limiter then out-->Into the Lexicon MX200 Signal Processor then out-->
Into the Line Input of Firepod.

Since the firepod has a preamp out/input for channels 1 and 2, I suppose I could use both channels on the signal processors above and have the effects and compressor on Preamp 1 and 2.

Does this sound ok, could be arranged better or a complete mess?

 

[Track Rat]

I'd hook it all up to a patch bay so I could connect only what I needed in any order at all on a whim.

 

[Fishybob]

Personally, I keep it clean on the way in and run back into these gizmos later.




***might just be me though!

 

[leaversday]

Personally, I keep it clean on the way in and run back into these gizmos later.




***might just be me though!

Sorry for the stupid question but do you mean clean into Firepod--> Cubase and then out to the Signal Processors???

 

[Fishybob]

yup! That's how I do things. I have compression on my Preamp so on the rare occasions that I need it on the way in I can, but mainly it's straight in. Then run out to the sends.

 

[trenttati]

I also run 99.9% of what I track clean from preamp into soundcard. I bus tracks out to effects and back in post-recording when outboard gear is needed. This allows you to always revert back to the raw original if any elements of the mix start to conflict. I find this method to be especially important to compression newbs (like myself), cause if you over-compress going in, you only have that over-compressed track to work with from then on.