this is probably easy but I haven’t figured it out yet, thanks for the help. here is my situation.
i want to record 3 guitar amps at the same time. I want to have them premixed and then I want to record them onto one mono track. I know I could just record all 3 at the same time, but I want just one file to deal with when it comes to editing. is there a “group” input buss I could set up? something else? I’m on Nuendo 13. cheers
You’ll have to use external hardware or something like TotalMix.
Fredo
thanks Fredo. do you think this might be possible within universal audio “console” ?
couldn’t you setup 3 input tracks (with monitoring on), route that through a mono bus and use that as an input for a mono track (that you set to arm for record)?
whatever you do, I would recommend against it. recording 3 ampscabinets in the same room and not having control over input delay and phase sounds like a bad situation. what if your mic’s are no lined up properly, you’ll get serious phasing issues.
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That’s the Solution,but as he said, be careful
Route them into a mono ‘group’ track, and then route the group track into a mono audio track?
What audio hardware do you have?
Typically to do this best, you’ll need an analog mixer, and some time to get the sound just right.
Possible yes use one of aux channels let say you used AUX2
And send what ever you want to this aux
Then record using this aux
I like the sound of this possibility but I don’t see an option to record the send channel. if I understand you correctly, I opened an fx track and sent an audio track to it but how do I record that fx channel?
I have an apollo. I can imagine how I could do this using an analog mixer but don’t see a path without it. thank you.
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Such wrongness
This.
You could just put all 3 tracks in a folder and edit them as a unit
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It’s a hack, but I used LCR (or even surround) tracks for similar tasks.
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- Record them into a LCR Channel, that way you get a 3 Channel File to edit. (Dietz beat me to it
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or - Convert the 3 Mono Channels after Recording to a 3 Channel Track for Editing
or - Use a Folder to edit like someone on top said
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I don’t think so because you cannot connect an input bus to a group track (input bus lacks an “out” routing and group track lacks an “in” routing). So you’d have to insert three mono audio tracks to establish this connection. I guess thse three audio tracks would need to constantly have monitoring engaged in order to relay the signal at all times.
Ok I’ll just do it myself because no one else is trying it, come on people !.
3 input tracks all in monitoring (ABC)
routed to a mono group.
1 record track which has the mono group as input.
You can see that the recorded clip has 3 frequencies.
that’s because there is a testgenerator on all 3 with different freq (200/400/800hz).
3 mono.npr (341.9 KB)
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Set each input up as a mono external ‘instrument’, or ‘effect’ (F4/External Instruments). Upon doing that it shows up in the plugin lists under the Steinberg/External Plugins category. Much more flexible than regular audio ‘inputs’ (Can be assigned directly to ‘group tracks’, and they also get a chain of effect slots).
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Call me difficult, but I’m old enough to justify that shortcoming.
There is a difference between merging and mixing.
Yeah, but that doesn’t work with Direct Monitoring activated.
Which makes it pretty difficult to perform & record due to the latency of the recording chain.
Fredo
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I sometimes wonder if people on this forum actually read other messages or just read the question press reply and type whatever they think is a good solution.
So I have an idea: Instead of us all trying to prove that our solution is better (I confess I think mine is fine for the question), maybe it’s better to let the original poster @normankrow respond to given solutions. Perhaps try some of them and see if they fit the issue.
On the part of latency in recording chains.. this was my first point of issue with the whole question, recording to a mono track is not useful whatever way you look at it imho.