Chris, Did you actually look through the Preferences window? In the Mixing tab, the very first checkbox is the one. I don't understand why you couldn't find it. well, there it is.
best, Slau On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I don't see that tab anywhere by the way. > > Can you get the exact tab it's on, and what exactly it's called? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slau Halatyn" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 12:48 AM > Subject: Re: I've read, but still dont' totally get this. > > > Hi Chris, > > The reason you're not seeing bus 1-2 is because it's probably either the > delay or reverb aux. I don't know why your busses have been named that way > but that's what's going on. Normally, one can use the pop-up menu in the > sends to send to a new auxiliary track. Pro Tools then automatically creates > an Aux track and assigns the proper bus routing and names the bus to > correspond with the auxiliary track's name. The way you did it is essentially > the manual way. Just an FYI. > > One thing you might want to do to ensure the plug-in is getting signal is to > set your default send level to unity gain. There's a checkbox in the Pro > Tools Preferences window, although I can't remember exactly which tab, that > says something like, "Sends default to inf" which means infinite resistance, > in other words zero. Make sure that checkbox is unchecked. > > HTH, > > Slau > > On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > >> OK, this is really strange. >> >> I have two tracks in my project. One is justan mp3 karaoke track I >> imported. The other is my vocal track. So, I added a new stereo track on >> top of having those other two, and set it to a stereo A U X track. >> >> Then, on the vocal track, I interacted with the sends, ond on send A, I went >> to buss sub menu, and was going to route it to 1 2 stereo. I can't though. >> The only thing I see is things like reverb stereo, delay stereo, etc. then I >> see 7 8 or 7 etc. etc. I dont' see one 2. I went ahead and said what the >> heck, route it to 7 8. I did, then went to the A U X track, and set the >> input path to buss, 7 8. Again, I'm only doing that as I can't find 1 2 >> anywhere in the buss menu for some weird reason. If it would help you all >> for me to send you the session, I'd be happy to send space it off list so >> you actually can look at what I did. >> >> The bottom line is, in my A U X track, I assigned on insert A, a reverb >> effect. Then back on the audio track of my vocal, I hit the send assign >> button with vo+space. Here's also where I'm really getting stuck. According >> to the documentation, there is supposed to be a fader I can move up and down >> now to determine how much is sent to the A U X track. The only fader I see >> is something about a post mix or something fader. When I interacted with >> that and tried turning it from where it was which by default was like -100 >> something odd DB, I find no matter how high I turn it, I went all the way to >> like positive 20. I still heard nothing. No difference. I'm guessing >> that's either 1, not the right slider, or B, it has to do with the fact I >> routed to an unknown buss with the 7 8. >> >> I feel I got a pretty good handle now on what bgusses are, I just more >> specifically in p t from a VO perspective am not getting how to do this, nor >> why the 1 2 they tell me to select in the docs is not showing up. >> >> I must say: I'm perplexed. >> >> Chris. >
