Effect Rack chains
Effect Rack chains
Hello everyone. Just a quickie you know on the effects rack, when adding effects what is the difference between adding multiple effects to one chain & having seperate chain for different effects? Like say i had a reverb & delay what would be the difference between keeping them all in one chain & having them on seperate chains? Sorry i might sound like a dunce but this is really confusing me.
Re: Effect Rack chains
Hi,
Try this little experiment. Set up a one shot sample (something like a drum hit) and then follow this with an effects rack with 2 chains.
In the first chain place a simple delay and turn the feedback up to around 60% and the wet/ dry to 50%. In the second chain place a reverb and turn the decay up to 3 seconds and the wet/ dry again to 50%.
Play your sample and you will notice that the reverb only effects the original sample and it will die out long before the delays have finished playing. This is parallel processing. The dry signal is duplicated and sent to each effect individually, therefore each effect is only applied to the dry signal.
Now delete the rack and place the delay followed by a reverb after the sample. Use the same settings as above and play your sample. Now you will hear that the dry signal is effects by the reverb but so are each of the delays. This is serial processing. Each effect processes the output of the effect before.
Hopefully this helps
Try this little experiment. Set up a one shot sample (something like a drum hit) and then follow this with an effects rack with 2 chains.
In the first chain place a simple delay and turn the feedback up to around 60% and the wet/ dry to 50%. In the second chain place a reverb and turn the decay up to 3 seconds and the wet/ dry again to 50%.
Play your sample and you will notice that the reverb only effects the original sample and it will die out long before the delays have finished playing. This is parallel processing. The dry signal is duplicated and sent to each effect individually, therefore each effect is only applied to the dry signal.
Now delete the rack and place the delay followed by a reverb after the sample. Use the same settings as above and play your sample. Now you will hear that the dry signal is effects by the reverb but so are each of the delays. This is serial processing. Each effect processes the output of the effect before.
Hopefully this helps
Last edited by Quantize on Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Effect Rack chains
Thankyou for your reply, i think i get it
Re: Effect Rack chains
Also, I highly recommend you check out this Dummy clip tutorial. I am a noobie and just found out about it today but apparently it is an old trick. It is all about selecting effects based on which position they are in a chain.
http://www.thecovertoperators.org/Video ... -revisited
http://www.thecovertoperators.org/Video ... -revisited