Can I strip off effects?

[little_chick]

I recorded a song and accidentally messed around with the reverb while recording in the Mastering mode.  I didn't catch myself in time to just "Undo" it and now the reverb problem has been made permanent on my tracks.  I can't seem to do anything to fix it.  Is there a way I can just strip all the effects off the tracks so I can start over?

I'm using a MBR, btw.

[64Guitars]

Reverb is never recorded to your tracks unless you're in Bounce mode or Mastering mode. In normal mode, the reverb is only heard on playback. It isn't actually on the track yet. To change the reverb levels, see pages 74 and 75 of the Micro BR manual. As well as the individual tracks, reverb is also applied to the input signal and drums. But again, the reverb isn't recorded to the track in normal mode.

[64Guitars]

Sorry. I just noticed that you said you were in Mastering mode. In that case, there's nothing you can do to remove the reverb from that final mix. However, you can easily do another mix with the reverb set as you like. Your original tracks are not affected when mastering. So only the mastering destination track pair has the reverb.

[launched]

Hi:

If you were in mastering mode, then you were dealing with pre-recorded tracks, which would only have the reverb effect upon playback with the reverb levels turned up. The original tracks should be fine.

Recording in Bounce mode with reverb set at the input level is the only way to permanently engrain in reverb, mastering and guitar patch effects while recording. (And I tried it just to make sure, because I had never actually done it myself.)

So all you should have to do is select the original v-tracks, turn the reverb effect down or off, and rebounce the tracks.

Hope that helped!

Mark

P.S. I see you beat me to it, 64! 

[little_chick]

I have a weird situation.  While I was recording in the Master mode, the "disk full" error came up and threw me back into Normal mode.  When I went to play back the tracks, the unwanted reverb was on there and I couldn't turn it back down.  I'm thinking this was a perfect storm of human and technical problems.   

[launched]

That's funny! One thing about technology is that it has the ability to test whether we can reproduce our music  .

The Micro BR can be quite a thief sometimes. My coolest guitar track is in there somewhere...

[little_chick]

Yeah, definitely a "character building" experience. 

[64Guitars]

I have a weird situation.  While I was recording in the Master mode, the "disk full" error came up and threw me back into Normal mode.  When I went to play back the tracks, the unwanted reverb was on there and I couldn't turn it back down.  I'm thinking this was a perfect storm of human and technical problems.   

Which v-tracks are currently selected? Normally, after mastering the destination tracks (with the reverb) will be selected along with the next two emtpy v-tracks. I suspect that this is what you're currently hearing. Go to the VTrack screen (see page 40) and set the v-tracks back to your original tracks.

For example, suppose that you recorded to Tr1v1, Tr2v1, Tr3v1, and Tr4v1 then mastered that mix, setting the destination track pair to Tr12v2. After mastering, the VTrack screen would look like this:

 VTrack ■■□□□□□□ <
   V2  V2  V2  V2

All four tracks are set to V2. Your mastered mix is on tracks 1 and 2, and tracks 3 and 4 are empty, ready for you to record something else. If you don't like this mix because it's got too much reverb or whatever, simply set your tracks back to V1 and re-master.

 VTrack ■■□□□□□□ <
   V1  V1  V1  V1

Of course, before re-mastering, you should check the reverb sends on all four tracks to make sure they're set to your liking.

[penster]

Apologies for straying off topic, but how did you do the navy blue graphic?
Mick

[Geir]

Apologies for straying off topic, but how did you do the navy blue graphic?
Mick

if you "Quote" his message, you will see what code he was using.