How To Record & Monitor With Effects In Cubase | Cubase Secrets with Dom

In this Cubase Secrets video, Dom Sigalas demonstrates recording and monitoring with effect plug-ins in Cubase, so you can record instrument and vocal performances dry for maximum flexibility in your music production, but hear them with effects while recording.

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[ErixSamson]

Perfect video. It should be displayed in the Cubase Hub on the left, so that all new Cubase users know how to record instruments and voice perfectly.

[Fastwalkers]

This is very useful for a lot of people, I think... I do this exactly the same way with Cubase for over 20 years now. It's the best way to monitor with effects😀.

[vladonie]

greetings Dom, great video as always!! For example, reverb on vocals in monitoring...I personally create another audio track that I call MONITOR and that track is only for monitoring. What is important to me is that the Monitor track and the track to which I will record have the same Input Bus. So I create an FX channel with reverb and do everything as you showed! Now I turn the Monitor track down to the minimum, and turn on only the monitor button on it. I turn ONLY the recording arm on the recording track. Since both tracks have the same send effect, when I record vocals (or something else), I will have reverb when listening, and I won't have to turn off the monitor button on that track or adjust the volume again to hear the recorded vocals and reverb on it. That's how everything is set up for me and I just record and listen to the recording and everything works! The point is that one Audio track serves me only for mknitoring, and the other only for recording and listening. Both tracks must have the same Input Bus for this to work.

[D.Angelopoulos]

Master...the musical planet is lucky to have you...me too...!!!

[pgroslouis]

I just want to say a huge Thank you for this video! I recently bought a Scarlet 4i4 which doesn’t come with a Direct Monitoring dial that my old Roland had. So I didn’t know how to get rid of the DM signal on my guitar. Which meant I had to learn to live with it. But thanks to this video, it makes perfect sense to just turn the DM signal down to 0 in the controller app mixer. Now all I get is the signal from Cubase which is what I want. Thanks Dom!

[мигельбасалыго]

the best video about monitoring I've been looking for. this pre-fader trick will change my game😂🎉❤

[ollid.]

There is always so much musicality in Dom‘s videos. I love him and what he does

[bjdarl]

I always have vocalists asking for some reverb so this is a great tutorial to achieve it. Thanks Dom

[parodifair]

Great vid Dom. I would add one suggestion though. When using a send effect like reverb, I find that it is better to set up the FX on a separate track that is set to the same input. That way you can easily monitor what you I’ve previously recorded on your current track while punching in.

[SteveMcRay]

Thank you Dom! Exactly what I needed, and you explained it with perfection! 😊

[FRANKRICECOLD]

Man I Have Been Looking How To Do This For A Long Time Other People Have Had Videos About This But The Easiest Explanation For Me So Far Thanks Man

[jordiguzman]

Hi Dom. What you're explaining is fine when you have a project with few tracks, but if you have a large project you can't work with such a small buffer and if you increase it there is a considerable latency.

[rohan.buchner]

I've done a split like this and it works great. But I use an offboard device for FX... E.g. do a hardware split prior to hitting Cubase and then send the wet signal to the monitor track, and then the dry to your recording track. Can be done with something like the Quad Cortex, Helix, Axe Fx... or if your interface has enough IO to support some pedal loop. I have a mote Motu UltraLite which I use to do this.

This way all your wet signal in your headset can effectively uber low (idk if I can say 0) latency, and you can also record the DI.

Same principal as what Dom demonstrated, and if you have the gear its perhaps a little lighter on the PC if you have gigantic projects.

[neurokinetik]

I had actually given up on trying to get effects working on live inputs, thinking it was impossible. Finally, I can do it. Thank you so much!

[IanGibsonmusic]

The direct monitoring tip on vocals is very useful

[axeltasler]

Very helpful is the button/option "restrict delay compensation" on the top left, when you record inside of large projects with many plugins/latency.

[AmberlightES]

I'm setting up a project as I saw this. Think I might just try this technique. Cheers Dom

[braxal]

Great video Dom. Can you do a video on re-amping guitars with real amps?

[MrRichard]

That last bit with monitoring vocals through reverb with zero latency is exactly what I wanted to learn. I have one particular singer that does not like even the slightest delay in her vocal while tracking, so it needs to be direct monitoring; however, I always wanted a way to hear her vocal through reverb too. This video was a help but I wish I would have seen it earlier before I went and bought an Antelope interface just to have that real time reverb monitoring.

[ScottsSynthStuff]

8:44 I think I would leave the fader up, and just switch the reverb to full wet, so you aren't duplicating the primary signal with latency.