Live DJs: Your effects

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affeltaffel
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Live DJs: Your effects

Post by affeltaffel » Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:59 pm

How does your effect rack look like?

Currently I have 4 tracks, each pair sends to a pair of racks with:
Redux, Beat Repeat, Flanger and Ping Pong Delay

Would be nice to recieve som tips and inspiration in this thread :)

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Post by joesapo » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:58 pm

I have one main FX send using the 'utility' trick (search the forum).

I have 6 FX stuck in the send:

Phaser
Crunch-n-Munch
Electronica 1
Drum Roll (download from http://www.abletonlivedj.com)
Ping Pong Delay
Fade to Grey

I have 4 'decks' that can be routed to the FX send at any time. I use a button on my BCF2000 to route the whole signal to the FX send. Once there, I have wet/dry knobs for each effect (search for the wet/dry effect rack, you can turn any effect into a variable one - nice).

Thinking about adding some more - but has been fun for me.

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Post by BassTooth » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:15 pm

i have made several templates. the one i use the most with my novation sl 25 is just two tracks: Cue A and Cue B assigned to A and B so i can crossfade and each track has an EQ3 in it with mapped filters. i use only one return track usually with a Simple Delay or Ping Pong on it and its parameter mapped. also i always use alittle Compressor II on the master track/fader

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Post by emptypond » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:24 am

cant find the wet/dry effect rack, help plz :lol:

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Post by joesapo » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:56 pm

cant find the wet/dry effect rack, help plz
I couldn't find the damned thing anywhere! If anybody knows who I can give credit to for this rack, please let me know.

Until then, I'm just going to repost it:

http://www.fileden.com/files/25291/Dry-Wet%20Rack.adg

Kudos to whomever created this rack. It's very handy. Just stick whatever effect you want to make variable in the WET rack effect chain and you're done.

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Post by emptypond » Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:31 pm

cheers :)

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Post by NorvernMonkey » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:22 pm

sorry if im being stupid...but how would i load this drumroll thing for instance into an existing live set?
cheers

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Post by selthym » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:41 pm

Either drop it onto each channel that you intend on using the effect on or drop it on a send effect as I do.

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Post by hoffman2k » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:47 pm

joesapo wrote:
cant find the wet/dry effect rack, help plz
I couldn't find the damned thing anywhere! If anybody knows who I can give credit to for this rack, please let me know.

Until then, I'm just going to repost it:

http://www.fileden.com/files/25291/Dry-Wet%20Rack.adg

Kudos to whomever created this rack. It's very handy. Just stick whatever effect you want to make variable in the WET rack effect chain and you're done.
http://www.thecovertoperators.org/archives/70 :wink:

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