mistercrayle
23 April 2011
Can anyone save my stress? Please...
I'm aware you go from interface OUTS to outboard mixer INS, mixer OUTS to interface INS.
I use Cubase 5. In Cubase, when I set the outputs to "8 mono" and send track 1 to "M1" aka "mono1", the signal is on the left speaker, track 2 to "M2" (on the right speaker), track 3 to "M3" on the left, etc., because it's mono - I know, but that's where i'm TOTALLY lost. How do I route my DAW tracks to each track on the outboard mixer and have each instrument in stereo? In simplest form, how do I act like i'm mixing in a DAW but in the physical world? What am I doing wrong? Do I put the main stereo outs from the interface (output 1 & 2) to something else? Please help, someone. i'll appreciate it alot.
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And yet he is correct. The people that do what you are attemp
And yet he is correct.
The people that do what you are attempting to do meaning out of the box (OTB), are using completely different equipment, computers, and interfaces than you are. They aren't doing it with bottom of the barrel stuff. Also, what you think you see on video in a studio and even mostly live today, is often a control surface/mixer combo so they are in fact using computer automation. No one is "mixing on the fly" in this day and age other than for live shows to control feedback and balance. They certainly aren't adjusting eq on the fly and they are certainly not adjusting much compression etc on the fly. They get the settings they want for the performance and leave it alone. They do minor balance adjustments and minor adjustments on mic levels. They make sure they aren't hitting the red at any stage of amplification or browning out their power source.
You aren't more musical for trying to do something the hard way with equipment that isn't designed to do the task at hand. I had fellow students at college and grad school (Northwestern University, UMKC, Chicago Civic Orchestra) that would say things like they would rather miss a lot of notes than be unmusical. Well the reality is that it isn't musical to miss a lot of notes and you won't get hired again to boot. You're not at this stage of self denial yet but you're heading this way. The music is in the performance and not the manipulation of the performance.
I mean this kindly from someone who has made his life/living performing both as a classical musician and as a blues keyboard player and sitting in with the odd ska band for almost thirty years now.