Insert FX routing question-

eyeshow wrote on 11/5/2010, 10:31 PM
Here's what I can do now that I like: I have an audio vocal track routed to a buss with a chain of fx on the buss. It's routed out to the master out. I have 1 Insert fx (which is really a send/return but whatever... terminology) that is a reverb. I place an insert fx 1 envelope on the audio track and can solo the Insert fx and hear exactly what is being fed through the effect (in this case reverb) and mute out the buss along with anything else. Now, what I want to do is- remove the track envelope, and have no signal sent from the track. Instead place the envelope AFTER the effect chain on the buss WITH THE ABILITY TO SOLO THE INSERT FX and hear what is being fed into it. In protools it's called "solo safe".

The reason being, I have like 20 vocal tracks that are ran through bussing with fx chains on em, and I want to use the reverb send and return AFTER these fx (compression/eq/de-ess/etc) but hate the fact I kinda gotta guess where abouts the signal is i relation to the main mix.... y'know?

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Tim

Comments

jbolley wrote on 11/8/2010, 8:07 AM
Unless routing is enhanced it seems the best way to do this would be
1)place all dynamic effects on the track, not a buss (eq, de-ess, compression)
2)create an effects buss for your reverb with the buss out to the master
3)use the track send to the reverb buss.

now when you solo the reverb you hear just the reverb and your sfx send envelope is by default post fader so your volume changes on the track will be reflected as well in the buss send level.

Alternately you could continue with your routing, just move the reverb to a new buss, view busses by pressing "b", and enable a send from buss 1 (de-esser etc) to buss 2 (reverb) I don't think this allows for the soloing you want, however.


Jesse Olley
eyeshow wrote on 11/9/2010, 8:50 PM
"1)place all dynamic effects on the track, not a buss (eq, de-ess, compression)"

too many plug-ins when you got 10-20 tracks that need comp. fx etc.

"Alternately you could continue with your routing, just move the reverb to a new buss, view busses by pressing "b", and enable a send from buss 1 (de-esser etc) to buss 2 (reverb) I don't think this allows for the soloing you want, however."

yep, no soloing that's the issue

Thanks for the reply

jbolley wrote on 11/10/2010, 6:24 AM
Yep, there are still some routing gottchas.
I guess you could render all your voice tracks through your buss to a new track, then use that track with an effects buss. Not elegant but I believe it will get you the solo you want.

Jesse
eyeshow wrote on 11/10/2010, 8:32 PM
good thinking that's what i'll probably do in the future