23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
12:48 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:58:13PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
I often mix almost everything that's live at the
time in at the
card level, including vocals. Vocals come in dry and go out
immediately to a hardware reverb to get a wet mix for headphones. The
dry version goes on to the system to be recorded, whereas the wet
version is what the singer hears. This allows me to use any reverb
setting they are happy with but still preserve the dry vocal for later
mixing.
Heh. Vocal monitor reverb is a bit of a special case... Even having no
hardware reverb here, I can get a similar effect by:
* Using hardware monitoring for the dry vocal.
* Adding a send from the vocal track(s) in Ardour to a bus
* Adding 100% wet reverb to the bus.
* Mixing a bit of the bus output to the hardware output feeding the
headphones.
This works because reverb is fairly unique in that a bit of predelay
on the effect is actually desirable, and buffer latency is as good a
source of predelay as any :-)
I haven't tried it with a very large jackd buffer though.
I do not really consider the above scenario
'hardware monitoring'
although I can see how others might, since I use the hardware mixer to
insert the vocals into the stream being played by the computer. Zero
latency, happy singers, etc.
Shrug. Sounds like the definition of hardware monitoring to me.
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Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com