i'm working on this new project in cakewalk it's kind of a classic rock sound kind of like
a rolling stones type of thing and i wanted to see if i could emulate the classic analog
workflow in cakewalk using only plugins that came with cakewalk and i think you're going
to be surprised at what i came up with i'm Zane welcome to Audio Tech TV let's jump into the DAW
and check this out alright so here's the project i'm working on i'll give you a quick listen
this is a very rough sketch of the song right now
so it's got this sort of classic rock slower vibe to it and i just wanted to see
can i do the classic analog workflow without using any additional plug-ins only what's
included in Cakewalk and i'll show you what i came up with now technically these might
not be considered plugins because they're in the pro channel strip so if you normally
have the pro channel strip closed over there i recommend opening it and we'll just start with
say the gretch guitar here and when i click on that this channel strip is now the gretch guitar
channel strip you can see it changes every time you click on something new so what we want to do
for the analog workflow is first we want to record to tape because that's what they did back then
they would record to tape and then we want it going into the console here so goes tape
console and you can find these pro channel strip plugins if you click on this plus sign right here
you can see you have a bunch of plugins in there and we're going to go over a few of them but you
can see we have tape emulator which is the first one we have and you want this tape emulator to be
the first plug-in on all of your tracks not your busses but all of your instrument tracks like your
guitars your drums even your individual drums if you really want to get technical with this
you want the first plugin in this pro channel strip to be tape and then you want it to be the
console the second plugin and i think the console is normally loaded onto there by default you just
have to drag it up so it's the second one in the list and to do that you would just click and drag
so i'm gonna keep it as the second one in the list now let's just solo this guitar right here
and we'll listen to it with this channel strip on and off
so you can hear that channel strip just really opens it up and makes it sound decent this guitar
was recorded direct into a di into the audio interface so it wasn't amped up or anything like
that now after you have your tape and then your console you can put all of your effects in there
so you can see here i have the eq loaded up and then i have a compressor loaded down here
and then i have this tube drive on there i also have this sent over to a bus so let's look over
here at our clean rhythm bus which is our clean rhythm guitar and on this one you'll notice i
don't have tape at the top because on your busses it's not recording to tape again it's
just routing it to another channel in the console so i have console at the top on all of my busses
and then whatever effects i need so i have another compressor on there that just does
a little bit of compressing some more eq on there and then this reverb too which
really brings out a nice sound in this guitar so i'll show you with that on and off
just really makes the guitar sound great when it's on there so to emulate that classic analog
workflow on all of our instrument tracks we have tape console and then whatever effects we want in
here and let's just have a quick look at what other effects there are so we have our console
emulator that you saw our reverb 2 which you saw and we have an la2a which is a compressor
and rematrix solo saturation knob from softube which is a nice saturation we have
another reverb here our tape emulation that you saw and then effects chain and with effects
chain we can actually add other vst plugins in there so let me just show you that quick
so you can see we have effects chain here now what if i didn't want to use the built-in console
maybe i have a console plug-in that i'd rather use so i would just click drag this bring it up
underneath tape there's tape i would turn off this console i probably would remove it all together
but then in here i would click the plus sign go to insert audio effects and i know i have one in here
and then i can load up another console instead of the built-in console if i
really wanted to and it's going to come after that tape and i can do the same thing with
tape maybe i wanted to load another tape plug-in in here i could just remove that
and then in the effects chain i could add a tape plug-in
and then i can just drag that up there and have the tape come before that console that i loaded
up but in this video i just wanted to show you what's available to you for free with cakewalk
so when you install cakewalk you can have these for free this console this tape plug-in and all
of these other things that we looked at in here and there's still more there's still these style
dial effects in here and you have some other cool modulation type effects and other things in here
which are really easy to use now there's one more type of track where you're going to have
a different chain in here and that's on your master bus so we'll click here and
you'll notice i have console at the top and tape down at the bottom that's because with master bus
everything's routed to our master so that's going into the console and then everything's going to be
recorded to tape on the output so we have tape at the end so let's just listen to this track
and i'll show you with this pro channel strip on and off on the master
so you can hear it kind of smooths things out when it's on and it does make it sound more full
so again on all of our individual instrument tracks we have tape then console on our buses
we have console only we don't have to go to tape and then on our master we have console
at the top whatever effects we want in the middle and then tape at the very end and you've
emulated your classic analog workflow using only the plugins included in cakewalk now
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon