FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ?

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2012/03/29 11:39:16 (permalink)

FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ?

Well, it's all in the title... what would you think about adding a dry/wet control in the FX chain...also, it would be a quick fix for all the plugs that don't have this control, and make easier parallel processing...
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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 12:01:02 (permalink)
    I don't know about this. It seems that you can map to dry/mix control already. As to if a plugin doesn't have one that could be a disaster. If the one plugin was not controlled and the others were. If you want this you could use a send.

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 12:56:25 (permalink)
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    I don't know about this. It seems that you can map to dry/mix control already. As to if a plugin doesn't have one that could be a disaster. If the one plugin was not controlled and the others were. If you want this you could use a send.
    When I read this idea that was the first thing that came to mind.  Some plugins already have a wet/dry mix control and if another was added at the end of the chain the possibility of not really knowing what level of an original dry signal was mixed in would exist.  Would it bother me if it were an option? Probably not, just not sure I would find a use for it.  I'd probably, as John pointed out, just created a send from the dry track to a bus with the FX Chain I'm using to get the desired amount of processed and unprocessed material I want in the mix.



    It's possible I'm missing something in how I'm assuming this would work and the benefits of it, but as always, individual mileage may vary.

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 13:07:31 (permalink)
    Another impressive post. Jind I just read from another poster something that made me smile for the insight it had. Here you do the same thing. Thank you.

    This is why I like this forum!

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 14:27:08 (permalink)
    You can just make a bus with what ever Pro channel effects you want and then bus the track or tracks to it. This way you can control the wet and dry percentage.

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 15:11:09 (permalink)
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    You can just make a bus with what ever Pro channel effects you want and then bus the track or tracks to it. This way you can control the wet and dry percentage.

    Cj


    +1

    Save your precious controller mappings for something else and it works with plugs without Wet/Dry mixes too.

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 15:44:39 (permalink)
    that's something I've never been able to correlate for myself.  maybe someone can help me with that.

    how does the wet/dry mix knob percentage correlate to a send amount to a bus?

    if I send 50% of the signal to a reverb bus, for example, and send 100% of the dry signal to the master, is this the same as a 25% Wet/Dry knob?  or is that the same thing as a 75% Wet/Dry knob?  or is it something completely different and I am missing it completely?

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 15:58:43 (permalink)
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    that's something I've never been able to correlate for myself.  maybe someone can help me with that.

    how does the wet/dry mix knob percentage correlate to a send amount to a bus?

    if I send 50% of the signal to a reverb bus, for example, and send 100% of the dry signal to the master, is this the same as a 25% Wet/Dry knob?  or is that the same thing as a 75% Wet/Dry knob?  or is it something completely different and I am missing it completely?


    It depends on your routing and whether your sends are pre or post fader.

    In your example you though you would end up with a 25% wet mix.

    If you are running the dry bus parralel with the verb bus and have two sends post fader both set at 100% you can control the relative amounts of wet and dry via the bus faders, which is probably the routing method I'd use for a chain.

    Of course going this way it would be hard to calculate what the relative levels were calculated as a percentage (aside from an infinity level on the dry bus and unity on the effect bus and vice versa being 100% wet or dry respectively) but I'd be using my ears on a compound effect anyway.

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    Re:FX CHAIN request : what about A dry/wet control ? 2012/03/29 17:52:45 (permalink)
    thanks JB

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