1. Chanel strip in our DAW
Hi I am Anna Grigoriadou from Athens
(Greece). I love playing the piano and singing.
This lesson is for week 3 of Introducton To
Music producton at Coursera.org. I will be
teaching the chanel strip in a DAW.
2. Main
Components
Firstly, we need to locate
the track inputs and
outputs or the channel
strip's inputs and outputs.
We largely configure our
signal flow by choosing
drop-down menus. We'll
choose what the track is
listening to or where it's
getting its signal from and
where the signal is going
to.
3. The next thing we want to
be aware of is where can
a track send its
information to? So in
that case, we'll look at the
track outputs. Now
typically there are two
possible kinds of outputs.
We can route the sound
from the track, down to
hardware outputs, so we
can hear them in our
headphones or on our
main speakers, or we
could route sounds.
4.
Up to buses: a bus is a place to, kind of collect
and route sound within the computer
5. The
next thing we
want to consider is the
direction of the
signal flow. We can
see that the sound will
go out outputs, and
will
enter, through,
inputs. We want to start really
considering of getting a mental model of the mixing
board, and how the signal is flowing through it, even
though we don't have cables to plug in like we do in
the analog domain.
6. The next thing we'll find in our channel strip are going
to be the inserts. And the inserts are a collection of
places that we can add effects, like gates,
compressors, EQ's, that sort of thing.
7. The next thing we'll find in our signal flow are
our sends, and this is going to be the tricky part
of the signal flow in that any particular send can
exist in two places, before the fader or after the
fader pre-fader or post fader. Sends give a
second volume fader thst let us route the same
signal to a different place, but in different
amount.
8.
9. In a few words......
We just want to know that we have a send section in
our mixing board. It will always have a send
destination, where we're sending that information to.
That will usually be a bus or hardware output.We'll
have a send level how much signal is going to that
output, and usually there'll be a button for pre or post,
which controls where that send lives inside of the
signal flow. From there, you're going to have your
volume and pan. Your pan knob controls the output of
the signal in the left or the right channel, and the
volume controls the main output volume of the
channel. That is the basic signal flow through DAW. I
hope you were able to find all these individual
components in your DAW.
10. In a few words......
We just want to know that we have a send section in
our mixing board. It will always have a send
destination, where we're sending that information to.
That will usually be a bus or hardware output.We'll
have a send level how much signal is going to that
output, and usually there'll be a button for pre or post,
which controls where that send lives inside of the
signal flow. From there, you're going to have your
volume and pan. Your pan knob controls the output of
the signal in the left or the right channel, and the
volume controls the main output volume of the
channel. That is the basic signal flow through DAW. I
hope you were able to find all these individual
components in your DAW.
