Video Guy seeks help from Audio Guy.

farss wrote on 3/18/2005, 5:44 PM
Simple mix, vocal on one track, piano on another, multiband dynamics on vocal track to clobber plossives on vocal (yeah I know about mic placement but the thing was in shot so it had look 'normal').
Anyways all that bit is hanging together OK.
Now I've added a little bit of compression using Wave Hammer (1.5) on the master followed by some multitapped delay to give it a little stereo spread . What I'd like to do is be able to control the MultiTapped Delay (wet out) using an envelope on the master track but Vegas will not play ball. I can do that on the individual tracks but I want the FX on the mixed output, anyone know how to do this or I'm I totally lost here?
One thing I don't think we get enough of are sample AUDIO Veggies, I know audio stuff doesn't look all that exciting but to me it's 70% of the reason I bought Vegas! And when I've managed to get the audio side to hang together it gets more WOW value than the video stuff, show a Macolite Vegas doing a multitrack mix with a few buses and lots of meters dancing around and acts of heresey can get commited :)
Bob.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/18/2005, 5:51 PM
you'd need to assign all three to a bus, then feed the master with the bus. ON the master, you've probably already discovered you can only have Mute/Volume/Pan. So....use the bus-to-bus features of Vegas 5, send to a new bus, and then the new bus feeds the Master.
The new bus can have an envelope, or you can assign an envelope to the individuals to control each separately.
farss wrote on 3/18/2005, 6:34 PM
Bingo!
What had me scratching my head for the last half an hour was using the "Mulitfunction Slider" to control the levels going to each of the busses!
Is that the Easter Egg that I needed to find to become an audio geek or what?
Thanks Again.

BTW, I would think there'd be quite a market for a CD/DVD with a couple of sample multittrack recordings for us to play with. Throw in a few sample veggies to show how to get different mixes and it'd have to be popular. It could contain samples in a few genres to cover most peoples tastes. I guess it'd have to be fairly expensive by the time you covered musos time and rights etc.
filmy wrote on 3/18/2005, 11:56 PM
It may or may not help but I know there are some sample ACID projects around for download. One of them is here: . I havbe no idea if you can import this into Vegas or not, but if not it might help you to look at how it is laid out in Acid. The download says: There's also a bonus project called 'This Olde House'. It's a full-bore, twenty-track ACID software project...
farss wrote on 3/19/2005, 3:12 AM
No you cannot import Acid projects into Vegas but I'll go grab it. During my down time I sometimes render Acid projects out as discreet tracks and bring them into Vegas just to play around with mixing. What I'd really love is say a 40 or 50 track project of a real recording session to play around with.
Bob.