camilovelandiamusic
Experienced
One of my favorite features that plugins are using lately is the ability to Link the Input and Output of a particular plugin/effect/etc. The idea is the following:
You're tweaking the AMP block, you enable "LINK" (or whatever name), and as you increase "Input Drive", "Input Trim", "Master Volume", or anything that may cause an increase or decrease in audible volume, the LINK will turn down the "Level" of the block, to compensate for the increase in volume.
The idea being that you can just add the color of the amp's preamp stage, input gain, drive pedal, EQ, etc, without being influenced by hearing the increase in volume. Some plugins call it "Auto-Gain", some call it "Unity", etc.
Scenario 1 - You're dialing sounds, and you're digging the tone, but it was a tad too much gain. Normally, you lower the Input Drive, and the volume will decrease, so then you now go to the "Level" and turn it up. With the LINK option, you would dial down the gain without hearing a volume decrease and saves you an extra step.
Scenario 2 - You're recording through your favorite mic preamp, and you have it set just to the sweet spot where you're saturating nicely without over compressing. You record a track with killer tone, but now for the next track you want more gain. You turn up Input Drive, but now your sound is pushing the preamp more, and it's saturating more than you wanted it to, so now you turn down the preamp, and now the saturation isn't the same. So now you rewind three steps and figure out how to fix it some other way. Meanwhile, your recording flow is interrupted.
I realize this isn't at all how amps/pedals/preamps work in real life, but it's extremely useful for recording or even just making presets. This is kind of like what the CAB block does as you start to add more IR's. The volume stays the same so that your judgement is focused on the change of tone and not any changes in volume.
Anyone else find this useful? Bueller??
You're tweaking the AMP block, you enable "LINK" (or whatever name), and as you increase "Input Drive", "Input Trim", "Master Volume", or anything that may cause an increase or decrease in audible volume, the LINK will turn down the "Level" of the block, to compensate for the increase in volume.
The idea being that you can just add the color of the amp's preamp stage, input gain, drive pedal, EQ, etc, without being influenced by hearing the increase in volume. Some plugins call it "Auto-Gain", some call it "Unity", etc.
Scenario 1 - You're dialing sounds, and you're digging the tone, but it was a tad too much gain. Normally, you lower the Input Drive, and the volume will decrease, so then you now go to the "Level" and turn it up. With the LINK option, you would dial down the gain without hearing a volume decrease and saves you an extra step.
Scenario 2 - You're recording through your favorite mic preamp, and you have it set just to the sweet spot where you're saturating nicely without over compressing. You record a track with killer tone, but now for the next track you want more gain. You turn up Input Drive, but now your sound is pushing the preamp more, and it's saturating more than you wanted it to, so now you turn down the preamp, and now the saturation isn't the same. So now you rewind three steps and figure out how to fix it some other way. Meanwhile, your recording flow is interrupted.
I realize this isn't at all how amps/pedals/preamps work in real life, but it's extremely useful for recording or even just making presets. This is kind of like what the CAB block does as you start to add more IR's. The volume stays the same so that your judgement is focused on the change of tone and not any changes in volume.
Anyone else find this useful? Bueller??