Setting up Audiophile 2496

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Hello,
Curious if anyone could help me setup my Audiophile 2496 for what I'm told is called "pass through monitoring". I want to be able to hear what I'm playing while I'm recording. The playback of already recorded tracks works fine, but I am unable to hear what I'm tracking over top. I'm working with a version of Power Tracks right now. I would call M-Audio and have them walk me through it, but I'm without a cordless phone and my PC is far far away from the land line. Thanks a lot!
 
sounds like your good now ?
thats a real hairy control panel.
a tip - i thought i would mention this now i have more time.
its relating to recording guitar tracks. and flubbing a few seconds but you dont want to do the whole guitar track over again.
i do a lot of double guitar leads. if i do a flub ....
go to edit view for the track and highlite the flub. then you will see
an option in ptpa for volume covering normalising, fade in, fade out,
and cutting and boosting volume. i set up ,my own custom preset i can call up for silence . like cut -xx db. this will silence the flub.
or you can use edit - cut ..BUT NOTE ....YOU MUST USE THE CUT OPTION KEEP GAP.
then what you do is just record on a seperate track the good part to replace the flub. then cut and paste into the original track where the flub occurred. another tip - notice very carefully in the paste dialog the various options. also you can get guitar left/right ping pong effects going like in big studios by alternately silencing different bits of two guitar tracks.
also try this. record a guitar track (put a bit of ptpa chorus or flange on it) and pan left in the ptpa mixer.
then record another (using different chordal inversions) and pan to the right
after putting a tiny bit of ptpa reverb or echo on it. dont overdo the fx..
and sing vocals twice, and put down the centre. you sing twice for thickness. you can also get interesting ping pong reverb tracks going by using alternate silencing in different all wet rvb tracks in ptpa.
also another tip. if you ever get into noisy guitar amps , after recording elec guitar track use ptpa noise gate with a threshold cut off around -20 db ,
and the track will be cleaner. just experiment with the threshold value. very effective in cleaning up noisy guitar tracks.
peace. if you need anymore tips ive got hundreds. just ask....
just post hey manning in the post header as sometimes posts get lost.
 
Yep, I am good now. Thanks for all the interesting tips, I will have to try them. Can you recommend a good combination of effects for vox in ptpa? I find the presets are a little ridiculous (ie. chosing Male Vox FX from the Track Category drop down menu). Since I'm doing acoustic folk stuff these just sound absurd. Probably a little dash of 'verb and some EQ tweaking is all I would need. I'll probably just have to fiddle around and see what works with my voice. Thanks for all your help.
 
VERY VERY IMPORTANT HH> the way you use the ptpa mixer controls.
EXAMPLE...try this .....(heh - and click my scales !!)
1. record a vocal dry on a track.
2. record another dry vocal on a new second track.
3. using ptpa track duplicate feature duplicate the second vocal track on a third new track. this is what we are going to use as effect track.
HIGHLIGHT WHOLE TRACK NOW IN THE AUDIO EDIT VIEW
(WHERE YOU SEE THE WAVEFORM)
go to ptpa echo..and EXPERIMENTATION IS VITAL....choose a delay around 50 to 100 milliseconds and try 50/50 dry vs effect. or experiment with one of the presets like slapback echo. DONT BE AFRAID TO TRY OTHER EFFECTS
for instruments. some can be quite interesting. now click PROCESS BUTTON.
4. in the mixer view bring up the fader of the third effected track
just under the first two (the double). if not enouigh effect , bring fader of first two down a bit. what your looking for (EXPERIMENT) is a hint of echo
behind the doubled vocal. now experiment with eq'ing using ptpa eq
built in. also note - you can do interesting stuff by copying the effects track and doing ping pongs by doing alternate silencing tricks.
this whole thing is what seperates the men from the boys.
ie...audio engineering and how to set the right settings in ptpa.
peace.
 
Hey Manning,
I'm getting an error when trying to add effects to my tracks now. It was working last night but for some reason now I get this: Error Creating C:/Program Files/Power Tracks/INPUT.TXT. Any thought? I am also going to look around the pgmusic site to see if they mention it.
 
read the error text file. open it in notepad .
ive never ever once had such an error. could be something your doing wrong. so i would open the txt file. tell me what it says.
i'm a registered user so maybe there is something different in the demo.
i would also email pg tech support. ive found them very helpfull in the past.
anyway - tell me what the error file says. not being funny , but it could just be a simple newbie mistake. ive never had this occur.
 
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