Had a email come in from Pat this week who wanted to know how to route to a reverb for vocal tracking, avoiding latency and other problems.
In this video I demonstrate two easy options:
1 – monitoring the vocal and reverb through reaper, with a low interface block size
2 – monitoring just the reverb through reaper while the dry vocal comes direct from the interface to the headphones. This option will depend on your interface having it’s own routing mixer (many do these days).
A third option (not shown here) would be to run through a hardware reverb and perhaps I will show this at a later date.
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2 responses to “Low Latency Recording With FX | How to record with reverb in headphones”
This is very timely; I have a vocalist who is very adamant about hearing certain FX in her headphones while tracking, even though they may not end up on the mix. I guess can use my MixControl software from Focusrite in the same way you use your Profire mixer. Now usually I’ve actually muted the record enabled track so that the vocalist is only hearing through MixControl. But it seems that would not enable me to use your workaround. So would I simply uncheck Monitor input and follow the rest as you described, or is MixControl that different of an animal that I’d need to figure something else out?
mix control is the same.
I explained it a bit weird in the video. You do want to monitor the input, but you disable that track’s master send. (alt-click on routing button). That way the send to the reverb still works but you don’t hear the vocal doubled.