verb while recording?

surrenderband · Post by **surrenderband** » Mon May 29, 2006 10:41 am

can i give the singer a little verb while recording but still get a dry signal to the track? im sure it has something to do with aux's but please explain exactly how, for i am a newbie. Thanks.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Mon May 29, 2006 11:57 am

You have a couple of options.

••• If you want no latency, monitor through CueMix and run your output through a hardware reverb. CueMix mixes do not affect the dry signal you record.
••• Monitor through effects. This will cause some latency, but you can keep it low if you set your buffer for 250 or less. Use a simple reverb to keep the latency low, such as MOTU's plain-jane Reverb. (not eVerb and not Plate)

When you monitor through effects, you are monitoring the playback, not the dry signal, so don't worry about it affecting what gets recorded.

Shooshie

musicarteca · Post by **musicarteca** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:07 pm

Another possibility is to monitor through cue mix and use a send to feed and external hardware reveb, you will get latency on the returning signal, but since it is just the effect you might get just a nice pre-delay.

waxman · Post by **waxman** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:13 pm

you will have to have a motu interface for cuemix...

surrenderband · Post by **surrenderband** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:32 am

sounds great, i have the 828 and cuemix, but no outboard verb. so, i will have to do this in DP i guess. how would i set up my auxes?

swiftness · Post by **swiftness** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:19 am

If you don't have a hardware reverb unit, then Cuemix won't do you any good in this situation.

You just need to add an Auxilary track for each Audio Track that you wish to monitor. Set the input and output the same for each pair of Audio/Auxilary tracks. You'll then be monitoring through the Aux track. Add a processor friendly reverb to the Aux track.

groove · Post by **groove** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:13 am

You could monitor your dry signal with Cuemix AND still get verb for monitoring.
Create an aux track with the input of your interface assigned to your vocal.
Mute this aux track.
In this aux track assigned a send in pre-fader to a reverb plug-in on another aux track.
Adjust the amount of verb at taste.
You will have no latency for the dry signal you are recording; the return of the verb will show latency (depending on your buffer size).
I have found this set-up to be extremely comfortable at a buffer of 256. The performers do prefer some verb when recording but don't mind a little latency in the verb if there is none in the dry signal.
Of course this set-up is only for monitoring while recording and is good with verb not with delays and echos.