outboard effect to my pc???

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Hi,

I have been recording my band through my pc and the results are great. I mix and master on the pc. I was womdering if I can utilise an old 19 inch efects reverb unit from my gigging days? It's an Alesis microverb3. Just fancy fiddling outside the pc. I have a delta 1010lt (10 ins and outs) If this is possible what would the set up be? If not, sorry for being dumb!
 
Just set up a send (or two) and a pair of 'return' tracks on your mix program, assign hardware outs (D/A) and A/D's for the effects returns.
Once you work out the details, can you save it as a template? (Sonar here.. :) Works great.
Wayne
 
I've got an E-mu 1820m and tried the same thing using Sonar 4. The results were not great. There was quite a bit of time delay from the signal leaving Sonar, going out the sound card, going through the outboard effect, comming back into the sound card and back to Sonar.(the lowest latancy setting I can work with with my current rig is 7ms.)
Also, you need to record the return of the effect into the recording software so that when you export your final mix, the effect will be included.
I thought about sending sub groups out of Sonar to a mixing board and adding rack effects through the mixer and printing the mix to my Dat machine,but since I bought my UAD-1 , it seems like alot of extra effort for nothing.
I have a rack full of gear left from my 3 Adat, Mackie 8 buss days that just collect dust now. Local music stores won't even take rack effects in trade anymore.
 
Joey B said:
I have a rack full of gear left from my 3 Adat, Mackie 8 buss days that just collect dust now. Local music stores won't even take rack effects in trade anymore.
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......but I will ;)
 
Joey B said:
I have a rack full of gear left from my 3 Adat, Mackie 8 buss days that just collect dust now. Local music stores won't even take rack effects in trade anymore.
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Same here. The mackie stays as the cue-monitor (primarily) but every once in a while I'll get to use everything in a quickie board mix.
Having to print the effects is a slow-down compared to plugs. Consider the latency' though as just an add on time wise to whatever delay/verb setting you'd dial in.
Drums (at the very least) still got to get some lexicon-90 here though. ;)
Wayne
 
Cubase has a delay compensation for outboard effects (it will actually ping them) so it works great with ourboard stuff. You can use a hardware effect just like a software plugin
 
here ya go
Alesis 3630 compressor
audio logic 440 quad noise gate
Behringer ultrafex II
Digitech TSR-24s
Rocktron Intellifex
Yamaha Rev 500
Sony A6 Dat
Tascam 302 dual cassete deck
I'm need to keep my DBX compressor my Adat xt.
 
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