I’m experiencing difficulties incorporating external effects such as Delay and Reverb on the Input bus for monitoring purposes during recording, without actually applying those effects to the recorded audio.
I have already added my Lexicon hardware effects on the “External Effects” page under audio effects.
When I add the “External Effect” on the Input buss the signal is automatically muted ???
I’m coming from Studio One where this is very simple to do !
It is usually a bad idea to have effects on input channels. You put the effects on the recording channel or a effect bus. When you have external effects as a reverb they are used as external effects on the recording channel.
I don’t see why this could be a bad idea as it is one of the most common trick in a modern studio !
It’s pretty dull to record completely dry and a bit of delay or reverb can spice things up and is an easy way to put the singer or whoever is performing get into the groove !
One thing you don’t want to do is record the effect as you’ll then lose all control about it when it’s printed.
I am really puzzled that there aren’t a single tutorial about this anywhere !
Yes…as you were told already put the FX on the track or an FX bus.
I think you’re thinkingg these are recorded but you have it the wrong way around…Input FX are recorded, not track FX.
Yes but the reverb return will have additional latency because you have another set of DA and AD,
IMO, way simpler to just use a plugin for monitor FX and save hardware for mixing.
Set up an audio track ready to record/monitor your client.
Set up an FX track with a reverb plugin.
On the audio track in step 1. go to the sends and choose the reverb FX track you just created. Set the send level appropriately.
Your client will hear the reverb as they play. What your client plays will be recorded but the reverb will not be recorded. To hear the dry version of what was played just bypass the reverb FX send. You are now free to do whatever you want will the dry recorded audio file… if you instantiate the reverb FX as an insert on the input channel, the reverb will be recorded onto the audio track too.
