I'm No Longer Getting FX On My Mic Input

[alan933]

I have a Focusrite with the mic input in input 2 and the other day I recorded vocals in 2 separate projects with different reverbs one from sonitus reverb and another using bus modverb.

In both projects  have reverb recorded on the vocal and its there for playback but now the live mic, which shows a level on the track but not the channel on the left,  has no effects with the FX.
I can't figure what I would have changed to kill that. 

I do get reverb when I play the Strings FX or the Drums FX

Any ideas?

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by alan933

[Will.]

5 minutes ago, alan933 said:

I have a Focusrite with the mic input in input 2 and the other day I recorded vocals in 2 separate projects with different reverbs one from sonitus reverb and another using bus modverb.

In both projects  have reverb I recorded but now the live mic, which shows a level on the track but not the channel on the left,  has no effects with the FX.
I can't figure what I would have changed to kill that. 

I do get reverb when I play the Strings FX or the Drums FX

Any ideas?

 

Mic inputs are almost everytime INPUT 1. Seems like you have it on Input 2.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Will_Kaydo

[alan933]

Just now, Will_Kaydo said:

Mic inputs are almost everytime INPUT 1. 

be that as it may, this was working on the 2 input before but now it doesn't I haven't changed anything on the focusrite. It has to be something in the software

[alan933]

shown above I have track one going to Master but I'm getting no level there either.

[Will.]

2 minutes ago, alan933 said:

be that as it may, this was working on the 2 input before but now it doesn't I haven't changed anything on the focusrite. It has to be something in the software

Wouldn't hurt if you try and change it. Do you have a send to your reverbs? I see you have it in the FX chain. 

Edited February 4, 2022 by Will_Kaydo

[alan933]

1 minute ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Wouldn't hurt if you try and change it. Do you have a send to your reverbs? 

The reverbs are on the channels ,  do you see that above? It would make no sense to change my mic input because it worked on this input before. This is like one day ago it worked and now it doesn.t for both projects.

[Will.]

2 minutes ago, alan933 said:

shown above I have track one going to Master but I'm getting no level there either.

What happens if you take arm off? 

[alan933]

1 minute ago, Will_Kaydo said:

What happens if you take arm off? 

its the same arm on and off

here's the other one.

This was experimental. It took me so long to figure out how to get FX reverb on the mic and now its gone.

[alan933]

Ok I found something , what is this input echo switch , it seems to work with this but I don't remember having this on before. 

[Will.]

7 minutes ago, alan933 said:

its the same arm on and off

here's the other one.

This was experimental. It took me so long to figure out how to get FX reverb on the mic and now its gone.

I don't know if its from the screenshot, but your sends seems to be disabled. 

I'm also going to assume that "A" on your output is Bus A? 

Everything seems to be looking right. What are you sending to Aux 1&2 

Edited February 4, 2022 by Will_Kaydo

[alan933]

3 minutes ago, Will_Kaydo said:

I don't know if its from the screenshot, but your sends seems to be disabled. 

I'm also going to assume that "A" on your output is Bus A? 

Everything seems to be looking right. 

Yes A is bus A, where do you see it off,  how is it turned on?

[alan933]

What is this switch and why does it have to be on for the mic to use the FX?

[alan933]

Totally confused, when the orange echo input is on the signal goes to bus A, when its off  , the signal does not go to bus A and there's no input to reverb FX

[Will.]

6 hours ago, alan933 said:

Totally confused, when the orange echo input is on the signal goes to bus A, when its off  , the signal does not go to bus A and there's no input to reverb FX

Here's a lengthy detailed explanation on how it works. 

http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3549983&p=1

[John Vere]

From very first sentence in your first post I could tell what you were doing wrong. 

[alan933]

2 hours ago, John Vere said:

From very first sentence in your first post I could tell what you were doing wrong. 

wow , thanks, great video , wish I had watched this first instead of all the ones on advanced topics.

[alan933]

10 hours ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Here's a lengthy detailed explanation on how it works. 

http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3549983&p=1

Thanks, some of those were good explanations.

[Byron Dickens]

49 minutes ago, alan933 said:

wow , thanks, great video , wish I had watched this first instead of all the ones on advanced topics.

Yep.

You can't possibly get the advanced stuff until you master the basics.

[John Vere]

Thanks for the positive feedback I have the whole series posted in the Tutorials sub form here and you might enjoy watching a few more as I totally made them for people who are new to Cakewalk. 

 

[alan933]

42 minutes ago, bdickens said:

Yep.

You can't possibly get the advanced stuff until you master the basics.

I had the old windows version of cakewalk and used it for years but this is a new learning curve evidently.