connecting it all up!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted on Jul 12, 2008 07:08 am
andi10290
Member Since: Jul 12, 2008
hi i have just upgraded my home studio to a daw system i have got a phonic helix 24 mixing desk for recording in cubase which works well but i also got sum rack mount stuff a behringer compressor and enhancer but i do i get it all to work? do i need a dat recorder for mastering or am i just been silly all i want to do i run my mix through the rack mounts and back into the computer to finish off mastering help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jul 12, 2008 04:33 pm Welcome to HRC first off.
To make things simple you can use the pluggins in Cubase to do your mastering and would not need to send audio out and then back in. As that mixer is not really set up to do that kind of thing easily.
You can however use the compressor on a channel insert for compressing on the way in, such as vocals and the like.
For mastering most of us do it in the digital realm now. Although outboard gear is still used, I even do it on occasion when I can't find a particular pluggin to do what I want. But for the most part it is simple enough to do it in Cubase itself.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Jul 13, 2008 09:14 am I'm gonna theorize here, as I've not used the helix24
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stream up to 18 independent channels of audio to the computer and return two channels to the mixer for monitoring
This says you can send 2 channels out to the mixer. So this will be a mixed down version of your project. What I would do, is make all your mixing finished, so you like it, minus any mastering steps. Save your project as a stereo wave file, and open it in a new project.
Now, send the output of that stereo file out on 2 channels of the mixer. Send those two channels into your mastering devices (via cables), and send the output of the mastering devices into 2 input channels on the board (via cables). Arm your software to record the two incoming signals, and after recording, the two new tracks will be your 'master effected' tracks. Once they're recorded, you can now do other stuff to them as well, like add an EQ, reverb, limiting, etc.
Personally, I'd probably stay in the PC domain, like noize said. I have a feeling that there's many software compressors that are more capable than the behry, and the same may apply for the enhancer as well. Not saying that they're bad, but software alternatives may be better.
I guess testing it out, comparing between software and hardware may be prudent. Best to hear it for yourself, then to just blindly take my advice as gospel =).
