southcoaststeve

Bandlab's Studio Instruments are excellent and I believe they're included with Cakewalk? I use the SI-Electric Piano and SI-String Section a lot. Loads of great sounding presets on the Electric piano in particular.

Thanks everyone for the informative feedback and resources, there's certainly a lot to think about. As hsmusic suggested, a sensible course of action would be to employ it within some mixes that I'm currently happy with and see if it makes me any happier! Seasons greetings to you all.

As my journey through the process of making music has progressed, I've become aware that I am completely ignoring the use of compression. I don't record live music - my guitar and bass go through an audio interface into the DAW (either DI or using a mic for acoustic) and my keyboards via MIDI. The drum tracks are always high quality samples that I purchase. I exclusively make instrumental music so vocal tracks are not required. I spend a lot of time balancing the tracks using the faders until what I hear sounds cohesive to my ear and the separate output levels are good. If the overall output level needs adjusting I'll use the master fader. I will then use an EQ across the whole track to adjust the lows, mids and highs to my taste. Under these circumstances would the use of compression add anything to the final product? I'd be very interested to hear your opinions. Thanks.

Since posting this I have also discovered a couple of really good plugins that I thought I'd share: https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/7185-Spaced-Out https://www.pluginboutique.com/products/10701-Dawesome-LOVE

I'm using an Audient iD14. And yes, they're fairly standard fx pedals - drives, delays, reverb etc.

Hi all, I'm exploring the possibility of running some analogue pedals into my audio interface and it was suggested in another thread that a DI box would be an ideal option. Does anyone have any recommendations for boxes best suited for home recording purposes? Thanks!

I'm using an Audient id14 interface which doesn't have that option. Could the pedal be plugged straight into the DI?

Really? Is that an option? It's something that I've never considered for some reason. So effectively: Guitar -> Pedal -> Audio Interface -> DAW

Sorry, got sidetracked. My next question is... what's the best option for using analogue pedals in conjunction with a DAW? Or maybe I should start a new topic on this?

Thanks everyone. Didn't really have a 'goal' as such, was merely playing around to see what it could (or couldn't) do. I already have a recording setup that serves me well, I was interested to see if this might add anything useful to it. One thing I did discover is that the NUX is a very decent platform for pedals so I wondering if this might be an option for recording purposes. Which brings me to my next question....

Thanks Glenn, the NUX is a midi device so would setting that still be applicable? Apologies if that's a silly question, when it comes to the technical aspects of DAWs my skills are not great...

Hi all, Recently bought a NUX Mighty Space amp and was interested to see how it works as a recording device. I've downloaded the editing software and drivers (for Windows) but for some reason I can't get a signal to Cakewalk. I've checked the settings on the NUX editing software and they appear to match up with my settings in the DAW. The only thing I can think of is the drivers I have downloaded for the NUX are ASIO but there is no option for ASIO in the drop down? If anyone else attempted to use the NUX for recording and experienced similar issues, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks!

Thanks all. I'll give that denoiser a go.

Thanks for the swift reply. I understand that it has been added for the sake of authenticity but I find it really loud and intrusive. And yes, the features are insane but I'm finding myself avoiding it due to this issue which is a shame,

Hi all, Is anyone else having issues with unwanted hiss when using this plugin. And if so, have you found any efficient ways of removing it? Thanks in advance.