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Setting Up a Send-and-Return Effect (Continued)
1. The sends from the individual input or multi in channels
When you want to adjust the amount of effect applied to input or multi in
channels relative to each other, you can adjust their individual sends to
the effects. You can also think of these sends as the place where you
set the basic amount of effect to be applied. For now, we don't need to
change the send levels to the effect.
2. The Flex Bus master level
If you've got the desired amount of effect on your signals relative to
each other, but the overall level of a Flex Bus is too high or low, you can
adjust its master level. You needn't do this for our example, though.
3. The effect input level
The effect processor's overall input level setting allows you to fix
problems you may be having with the effect. For example:
•
After sending the desired amount of signal from your input or multi
in channels, you find that the effect sounds unexpectedly distorted
or bad in some other way. It could be that all of your channels'
signals together make up a combined signal that's too loud for the
effect processor to handle. You can adjust the effect's input level to
lower this combined signal's level. The input or multi in signals retain
their relative differences in the amount of effect they're getting, but
their overall level is brought into an acceptable range for processing.
•
You're using an effect—such as a compressor or vocoder—that's
supposed to respond to changes in signal level, and the effect is not
behaving as expected. You can raise or lower its input level so that it
does.
Each effect processor's input level adjustment can be found on its
ASSIGN editing screen. Let's adjust Effect 1's:
1. Press PAGE DOWN once.
The effect's input level control is labeled "SEND LEVEL."
Remember that Input Channel 2 has more reverb on it than Input
Channel 1 as a result of the way we set their send levels to the
effect. As you perform the following steps, make some noise in both
channels and listen to how the effect changes.
2. Turn V4 [SEND LEVEL] up and down, and notice how the amount of
reverb changes overall while the difference in the amount of reverb
applied to both input signals remains the same.
You can see the effect's input level in its input
meter on the display. The changes you're
making to its left input are reflected in the left-
most meter.
3. When you're done experimenting, set SEND LEVEL to 75.
In actual practice, the effect input level should be changed only to solve
a problem of some sort. Otherwise, you should leave it set to its default
value of 100. We're only changing it here for instructional purposes.
You can see that the left input meter's level is lower than the right
input's as a result of the change we just made.
Getting Started with the VM-7000
Getting Started with the VM-7000
meters
2796US, v1.0
Input
Output
meters
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