Guitar effects often disappear after recording
Recently, with the Tascam 2488 MKII, I've been experiencing problems regarding guitar effects. It has performed flawlessly until recently - it seems that after recording a guitar track having assigned it to a guitar effect from the Multi-effect list, the track will become effect-less if an effect from the list is assigned to another track. Surely the track should remain as it was when recorded, and it shouldn't be possible for the effect to go away post-recording? Perhaps I'm doing something wrong but I had not previously experienced this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Danny
Danny
Audio Players & Recorders - Tascam - 2488 Portastudio Multitrack Recorder System
Answers & Comments
Hi Danny,
You seem to be aware already that the multi-effect acts like a traditional 'insert effect' on a mixer and as such can only be applied to one track/channel at a time (multiple effects / single channel). The problem you're asking about seems to be that the effect is not 'printing' during the recording of your track. Obviously the effect can't 'go away' after recording so it would appear that your guitar effect isn't being recorded (only monitored) when the track is being laid down.
My initial guess here would be that while recording you've been assigning the multi-effect to a channel vs an input. That would explain the effect being audible while monitoring, but the input still being recorded dry even though the effect is heard through the monitors.
So to get this working the way you expect you'd want to insure that you are indeed assigning the multi-effect to input from which your guitar is coming, rather than the track on which it is getting recorded.
Having said that, actually recording dry (like you are doing) and then applying the multi-effect to a new track via a 'bounce' is the way a lot of people (myself included) choose to accomplish this anyway. That way you preserve a dry track and can go back and 'redo' the effect (or choose a different effect instead) later on. It does however introduce another step and use up another virtual track (but the 2488 has 250 of them available which si a big reason the 2488 is so competitive).
Hope this helps.
bd.