I’ve been using Cubase and Pro-Tools professionally for a long long time now but this one has always stumped me in Cubase. There’s got to be a way that I’m just not seeing.
So lets say I’ve got 3 mics on my guitar cab and I want to sum them going into my DAW. In pro-tools I set up 3 aux tracks with inputs from mic 1, 2, and 3. All 3 aux tracks have an output set to a buss - lets say Buss 1. Then I create an audio track and set the input of that audio track to buss 1 - and my 3 mics get summed into the audio track.
How can I do something similar in Cubase - most days I’m much happier composing and arranging in Cubase so I’m hoping there’s a relatively painless and elegant way to do this. I read about making a group channel but I can’t see how to set the group channel to monitor the different audio inputs or route it to a new audio track for that matter. Your expertise and help is appreciated!
I would do this as following :
- Create a group track to which all the needed audio tracks are routed to (in their track inspector Output Routing drop down list).
- Create an audio track with the group track created in 1 selected in its inspector Input Routing drop down list.
You should get something like this (screenshot taken while recording an Epiphone casino with three sources : an SM57 for the cab, an AKG P120 for the acoustic side, an a DI input from the amp) :
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Ok - so did you start by creating 3 traditional audio tracks - one for each source - and then create a group channel from those selected audio tracks - then you create a separate audio track and set that audio tracks input to come from the group?
Then you just input monitor the 3 mic tracks while record enable the “summed” audio track?
Exactly.
I just created the Guitar_Sum track for the need of your inquiry, the others already being a part of my usual template project.
