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. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
