How to change effect rack for many tracks at once?
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yazzibelani
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How to change effect rack for many tracks at once?
I'm using amplitube 5 for my guitar. I have many different tracks as I want the volume levels to be different for each. I want the exact same amplitube settings for each. When I apply the amplitube plugin to the group it sounds way different compared to applying it to each individual track. I would like to understand why that is and get a good fix for it. Assuming that can't be fixed, is there a way to apply an effect chain to many tracks at once? Thanks
Re: How to change effect rack for many tracks at once?
Group the tracks, apply the effect to the group.
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Re: How to change effect rack for many tracks at once?
You should consider that effecting a single chain with different input level will behave differently in the plugin, then summing the audio will also change the overall image.
If you feed all channels into one bus, the sum of the unprocessed levels will again behave differently in the plugin.
If you don't know, consider learning about sound waves and amplitudes to see how combined signals modulate the output sound wave and how that reacts with different effects at different levels.
If you feed all channels into one bus, the sum of the unprocessed levels will again behave differently in the plugin.
If you don't know, consider learning about sound waves and amplitudes to see how combined signals modulate the output sound wave and how that reacts with different effects at different levels.
Re: How to change effect rack for many tracks at once?
Assuming all of those tracks are meant to be sounding together:
You can't run multiple guitars through one amp, in the digital world just like in the analog world. Or rather: you can, but it probably won't sound good.
Part of the reason is levels – all those signals being summed end up louder (higher amplitude) together, making the amp saturate sooner.
But most important, I think, is that the kind of saturation a guitar amp adds greatly exaggerates any interplay between notes.
This is the reason people play mostly power chords through high-gain amps: any chord/interval more complicated than a fifth will have more complicated interplay between the notes, which will sound very dirty very quickly. Even more so with multiple slightly detuned notes from multiple instruments sounding together: the beating produced by the almost-but-not-quite the same notes will turn into unmusical throbbing.
So, there's really no way around it: you'll need to run a separate instance of Amplitube for each track.
You can't run multiple guitars through one amp, in the digital world just like in the analog world. Or rather: you can, but it probably won't sound good.
Part of the reason is levels – all those signals being summed end up louder (higher amplitude) together, making the amp saturate sooner.
But most important, I think, is that the kind of saturation a guitar amp adds greatly exaggerates any interplay between notes.
This is the reason people play mostly power chords through high-gain amps: any chord/interval more complicated than a fifth will have more complicated interplay between the notes, which will sound very dirty very quickly. Even more so with multiple slightly detuned notes from multiple instruments sounding together: the beating produced by the almost-but-not-quite the same notes will turn into unmusical throbbing.
So, there's really no way around it: you'll need to run a separate instance of Amplitube for each track.