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What's an "analog input pair"

#21
outputs are fine... unless you are mixing to surround sound but I doubt you are..

It looks like, for Mono In 1 Mic/Inst 1 is on the left input. and Mono in 6 is on the right.


So nothing is recorded when you have a track set to Mono with a Mono input? Weird... Maybe your sound card will only record "Stereo Pairs"...


Well, here is a work around for you... its not ideal, but it will get you some workable recordings.

- Set in / out markers at the beginning and end of the recording you want to use, and have that recorded track SOLO'ed (better to do this on a dry track / no effects etc)...
- Go to File - Export - Audio Mixdown
- Make sure your destination folders are in the project you are working in
- Make sure the File Format is AIFF or WAV, nothing compressed...
- Audio Engine Output should look like this... Stereo Out, check off "SPLIT CHANNELS" (sample rate / bit depth should match your project settings / record settings).
- Import into project - check Pool and Audio Track.

Then click export...

What this will do is "SPLIT" the "Stereo" recording into TWO MONO TRACKS... Left and Right and put it inline with the actual recrding... THEN, cut the original useless stereo track and blank track (the other track that was newly created) from the sequence window.

Should look like these shots...

cubase234.jpg


The result... The stereo recording split to separate tracks... delete the one with nothing on it... keep the one that does...

cubase345.jpg


:D
 
#25
To save yourself some confusion down the road, you should go back in the VST connections and match your inputs to the cubase numbers, mono in 1/mic Instin 1, mono in 2 mic Instin 2 and so on down the line making the presonus numbers match the cubase input numbers.

It may seem anal, but if you ever get in the position of recording 2 or more things at the same time or just have them all connected at the same time, you'll know where everything is routed.

Now all you should have to do to record properly in mono, and have the sound come out both speakers evenly is create a mono track, and set it to the input that your bass is plugged in to. Bass's guitars mics are all mono so they should be recorded as such. There are a of ways you can then get a stereo image, but you'll want to start mono.

If you want to, you can make the 3/4 line in a stereo pair in that vst area, same with the spdif in. It just depends what you think you'll be connecting to them the most. And of course you'd record those stereo pairs to a stereo track.


Oh, also you posted above while I was tying, you can save this setup as a project "template" so that when you start new ones, you don't need to redo everything like routing, plugins you like etc every time.
 
#27
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

while i have you awesome people here, any clue as to why i can't record a second track with the same bass from the same input? first track with the drum beat works perfectly, second track I try to record (in the mono 3) spot is blankity blank

does this has to do with how the inputs are setup? or is it just not possible to record multiple tracks?

Capture-3.jpg
 
#29
SLaPiNFuNK said:
You need to make sure the "Input" for the selected track is set correctly.

By the way... In your picture above... Tracks 5 and 7 labeled Mono 01 and Mono 03 have Stereo tracks on them...
Click to expand...

heh you've just blown my mind again

i'm not exactly sure what you mean by input set correctly, it's the same settings as what recorded track 5

does the color indicate they are stereo? or how do you find that out? they were recorded with all inputs set to mono, on the 'mono' track....
 
#33
SLaPiNFuNK said:
well, we are not seeing the settings on the left side of the sequence window. Double check and make sure they are the same.
Click to expand...

I had to manually switch the input from mono 3 to mono 1

definitely need to set up some templates now with all the inputs to mono, all to channel 1, and all with EQ

is there some way to add EQ as I'm recording the track? I can only hear what's going in, which sounds tinny, and then when I EQ the recorded track I can make it sound normal, but this makes it impossible to record a second track over the first one because the first one is 10 times louder than the real-time playing.
 
#35
Sometimes ASIO drivers can be weird... you need to turn them on and off.. Not necessarily turning off the sound card, but turning off the ASIO in cubase should fix that.

What movie?

You could have the EQ play back in the monitor of the recording, but there may and most likely will be some latency.

Do you have any kind of mixer or are you just using the sound input/output on the Firebox?

The best thing to do is have a small mixer to "monitor" through, Monitor the output of the Firebox and also monitor the bass BEFORE it goes into the firebox.
 
#36
Awesome I didn't think about that, just restarted the whole program and it worked...need to remember to save next time :)

Funky Monks, RHCP doc.

I did turn on monitoring, latency is dealable

I'm have a small software mixer that came with the firebox, but it doesn't let me do much other than pan, change levels, and change output ports.

Are you talking about a seperate piece of hardware as a mixer, to use before the firebox, or would it also be software?

And if you happen to know why when I export this mix, either as stereo or mono, it only plays out of one speaker on my stereo system? Been trying to figure that one out for a minute now...
 
#37
little piece of hardware... since it is just to "monitor" out of, there is no need for it to be super high quality.

If possible, export a 30 second clip that plays out of only one speaker and email it to me - slapinfunk at gmail and Ill take a look at it. You could also look, drop the "exported mix" into a cubase track, double click it and see if there is only audio on one side and not the other.. and are you burning a CD or just playing out of your computer? you may need to make sure that the outputs of the firebox are set to channel 1 and 2 and not like 1 and 6 like the inputs were set...
 
#38
set up properly, you should get no latency with the firebox and cubase. You also shouldn't be having any of the issues you are. I'm thinking it's time for a trip to the setup manual for the firebox. All the questions/issues you've been experiencing are covered there.

That little software mixer that comes with the firebox is actually more powerful that it may seem at first glance. Set up properly it will allow direct monitoring at near zero latency. It will allow you to change what point you are monitoring, If I remember correctly you want everything set to 1/2 and in the one place it says it, i think it's headphones, you want mix. You will arm a track to record, but if I remember correctly, won't set cubase to monitor it via software, let the firebox do it.

It's in the manual somewhere, that's where I learned it. I was frustrated with mine at first, once I got the hang of it, I used it almost every day for 2.5 years. I still use it as my portable audio interface with both windows and mac laptops. It's a cool little box.

Also make sure on the FB mixer, that your channels are panned center.
 

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