Need some help with applying a Master Effect

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Okay, Onehandpass - I had a nosey in Cool Edit and I think I figured out how to do what you want to do:

1 Click View

2 Click Show Mixers Window.

3 Click Bus Mixer.

4 Add whatever effect you want and the settings you want.

But I still don't see how this is going to achieve what Ikon was talking about - reducing the processing load on the computer. I mean, imagine you've got twenty tracks in Multitrack and they're all running realtime EQ and other stuff. Now you add even more effects to the Master Bus. How is that going to reduce the load on the computer? It seems to me it's just adding more processing to the session.
 
And that will add the effect to all tracks? or do i need to route the tracks to that buss? The whole buss thing is real new to me..

Just trying to improve the quailty of the finished product, and while the mixdown, add effect is working, id rather hear how it sounds without having to go through all of that.

Will give it a whirl dobro.

Thanks!
 
dobro said:
Okay, Onehandpass - I had a nosey in Cool Edit and I think I figured out how to do what you want to do:

1 Click View

2 Click Show Mixers Window.

3 Click Bus Mixer.

4 Add whatever effect you want and the settings you want.

But I still don't see how this is going to achieve what Ikon was talking about - reducing the processing load on the computer. I mean, imagine you've got twenty tracks in Multitrack and they're all running realtime EQ and other stuff. Now you add even more effects to the Master Bus. How is that going to reduce the load on the computer? It seems to me it's just adding more processing to the session.
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well if you put the effect seperate on each track it will add more and more temo files wich will eat your comps resources....you do it through a bus instead of there being 4874723471203 temp files on your comp for all the effects it will read 1 because they all using the bus
 
Ah okay, I understand you.

But why would anybody at the mixing stage put the same effect on *all* the tracks? Unless maybe if it was a reverb. Putting an effect on all the tracks is the sort of thing you do at the mastering stage.
 
dobro said:
Ah okay, I understand you.

But why would anybody at the mixing stage put the same effect on *all* the tracks? Unless maybe if it was a reverb. Putting an effect on all the tracks is the sort of thing you do at the mastering stage.
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I once put a delay effect on the final mix. The echo made the band sound like it was playing in a large stadium.

Caution: You need to be very conservative though, it can start sounding all garbled up real quick. An noticeable effect (on everything) in a busy song usually never works. I was lucky it was a slow song and I got away with it.

RD
 
Yup, on the final mix.

I put a reverb on a final mix once, and it made it way lovely. I'd imagine that's the sort of thing you use an effect on the master bus for.
 
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