16.Press record on your software’s transport bar. Record a take of your guitar and vocals. Understand that while recording, you are monitoring the Delta inputs by way of the Monitor Mixer settings for H/W In 1/2, and according to the selection of ‘Monitor Mixer’ within the Patchbay/Router page. At the same time, your software is recording from H/W In 1/2 but at the levels that were set up with the
17.When you are done playing, stop the recording software and rewind the take. Before playing back what you’ve recorded, you will need to assign the recorded tracks to output devices on the Delta 66.
Note: For efficiency’s sake, this step could have taken place while you were setting up the recording track assignments. However, since this step only affects playback and does not affect the recording setup in any way, we’ve placed it here to lessen confusion.
Assign software track one to output device “WavOut 1/2
18.Start playback from your software’s transport bar. Open the Delta Control Panel and go to the Monitor Mixer page. Observe the meters at “WavOut 1/2” – these are the playback levels of your guitar and mic. Adjust the faders and mute controls so that you may hear the guitar and mic at the appropriate levels and mix. These are the levels at which you may monitor the
Let’s assume that you like this take, and wish to overdub an additional guitar and a harmony vocal. We can still use hardware inputs 1 & 2 of the Delta. We’re set up to do so and there’s no reason to change these inputs. Let’s set ourselves up to overdub these next two tracks. We will record the next two tracks of material to tracks 3 & 4 of the software:
19.Back in your music program, set the ‘source’ or ‘input port’ to “Left PCM In 1/2
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