Jonathan Scary » FX

Getting to grips with Send FX in Cubase

Jonathan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:52:11 +0000

Spent a little time with the Cubase manual last night getting my rather thick head around the concepts of insert and send effects, dry and wet mixes, group effects and so on. As a result, I’ve been playing around this morning with a two bar drum loop I’ve created and a bass line to which I’ve added Stereo Delay (dry mix on one drum track and faded in on the wet mix for another drum track) and AmpSimulator, Stereo Delay and DaTube on another FX channel.

The result may be something I can develop, but I’ll need to come back to it later today to see if I still like it. It was early morning when I put this together, so who knows how it’ll sound at a more sociable hour.

And still more editing

Jonathan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:14:03 +0000

Listened to an earlier version of some of the tracks which I’d mixed down (having subsequently deleted the original voices and effects) only to decide that I much preferred it first time round. Two lessons learned:

Don’t over edit
Save every version of your work before mixing down

After a couple of hours work trying to recover what I’d lost, half an hour on a bass line which went absolutely nowhere and another forty five minutes choosing some sound effects from Cubase (Space Birds and Cosmic Radiation), I’ve arrived at something I’m fairly pleased with. Agree entirely with DigitalDoyle that this needs a lead part – and a bass line – but I’m going to leave it for a few days and see if anything comes to mind.

Swamped with FX

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:46:41 +0000

Playing around with last night’s audio dump to see how to apply effects to one or two of the tracks. The result is far from subtle(!), but I’m beginning to understand how FX are triggered in Cubase and how to edit on the fly.