![]() recorded) but the reverb doesn’t and is only there to help the vocalist with some ‘ambience’ in their headphones when recording. I use the compressor and reverb unit when tracking up vocals: the compressed signal gets printed (i.e. It contains a Behringer compressor, Alesis reverb unit and an SPL Vitalizer, all of which can be bought these days as plugins. I have a rack (see photos right) but it dates back to when I started home recording a dozen years ago. Even some of these famous processors have been emulated in software form, but those who are lucky enough to own them still prefer the ‘mojo’ of the originals! In addition, many professional studios still use famous outboard processors, particularly compressors for example, that were used to make hit records in the 60s or 70s and which are no longer available. Lesser mortals like us, without the ‘golden ears’ of pro engineers, wouldn’t be able to detect the intricate sonic work that this equipment performs in the sound engineering process, our studios won’t need this kind of perfection as the cost versus benefit ratio wouldn’t make sense. Why is this? There is still a market for very high end professional equipment, almost all hand-built to extremely high specifications, and performing specialised functions that professional studios need to produce their projects to world standards. Home studios rarely have outboard equipment, but if you see inside a professional recording studio it will invariably have rack upon rack of hardware. Thanks to agreement on common industry standards such as VST and Direct X, this ‘plugin’ market is now huge, with the same plugins usually compatible with all makes of DAW software, and low in price. Equipment formally residing in aluminium 19” rack boxes containing circuit boards has been emulated in software form instead so the same effects can be plugged in to your DAW software. Outboard - what is it and do I need it? Recording can now be conducted almost entirely inside a computer. Categories > Media > Midi Shareware Junction periodically updates pricing and software information of MIDI Patchbay v MIDI patchbay lets you hook up your various pieces of MIDI software and hardware and pass MIDI data between them, applying assorted filters on the way It was checked for updates 31 times by the users of our client application. Alternatively you can buy a DI (Direct Input) box that is specially built to take signals from your guitar straight into a mixing desk (middle photo left). I often use the guitar processor in my BOSS DR-880 drum machine (mentioned on the previous page), or my rack-mounted Marshall JMP-1 pre-amp (see top photo right). You’re going to need a pre-amp as they’re called, or a guitar processing unit with built in pre-amp like a Zoom, BOSS or similar that has outputs provided especially to feed the correct signal levels into a DAW. Due to things like ‘mismatched impedances’ this isn’t straightforward. On the patchbay the inputs and outputs for ch 1 thru 8 work fine but. We have connected the 24 ins and outs to a patchbay. DI Box: If you’re a guitarist you’re going to want to plug your guitar into your PC somehow and record it. We have 2 192 I/Os the first 192 has 16 inputs (8 on expansion card) and 8 outs and the second 192 has 8 inputs and 16 outputs (8 on expansion card) for a total of 24 ins and outs.
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