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Setting Up a Send-and-Return Effect (Continued)
Edit the Effect
Let's demonstrate how to edit an effect by adjusting one of Vocal Plt's
parameters:
1. Press EFFECTS 1-8.
2. Press F2 [EDIT].
As you can see at the top of the screen, Vocal Plate is made up of
an EQ and a Reverb (REV) component. Though this screen is
showing us Vocal Plt's EQ parameters, we actually want to change
one of its reverb settings.
3. Press PAGE DOWN once to display Vocal Plt's reverb settings.
4. Use the CURSOR buttons, if necessary, to select the Reverb Room-
Size, Time, Pre-Delay and Difusion and Density parameters.
Let's change how long our reverb lasts.
5. Turn V2 [Time] up to 15.0 and make some noise into your mic—the
reverb now lasts for 15 seconds. We've drastically changed the
sound of the reverb we started with.
6. Turn V2 [Time] down to set the Time parameter to 1.0 second—
notice how short the reverb has become. Even small changes to a
reverb's time can make a big change in its sound.
7. Start by resetting Time to 2.2 seconds, the setting we started with.
Make some noise in the mic to get a good sense of what this reverb
sounds like. In its current state, it would make a nice general-
purpose reverb for most any type of song.
8. Set Time to 3.7 and listen to the reverb. Even though we've only
increased its Time value by one-and-a-half seconds, the reverb is
now much too long to be of much use on an up-tempo song. But it
might sound really good on a ballad.
To learn about other effect parameters, see the algorithm list starting on
p. 119 in the VM-C7200/C7100 Owner's Manual.
Adjust Your Effect-Related Levels
Once you've set up your send-and-return effect, sent signal(s) to it and
customized it, you'll most likely want to tweak its various level settings to
perfection. There are five such settings that adjust:
1. The sends from your individual input or multi in channels.
2. The overall master level of the Flex Bus.
3. The effect processor's overall input level.
4. The effect processor's overall output level.
5. The amount of effect that's sent into the main mix, cue mix or to
other Flex Busses. This is also called the "effect return" level.
Here's where the level controls are in our send-and-return effect.
1. Sends from
Input Channels
1 and 2
Flex Bus 1
2. Flex Bus master level
Though a send-and-return effect has separate left- and right-side inputs
and output level controls, we're counting each pair of input or output
controls as one item for now.
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3. Effect input levels
Effect 1
4. Effect output levels 5. Effect return
sent to main mix
or to other Flex
Busses
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