Hey guys, in this video we’ll be covering more on how to use the Avid Eleven Rack.
This time, we’ll go over setting up different amp settings and saving these as presets on
the Eleven Rack.
Before going through this video, make sure to check out the first Eleven Rack tutorial
where we covered setting up the Eleven Rack with a digital audio workstation.
The first thing to mention is that there are two
sets of Rigs with the Eleven Rack.
The first set can be changed and saved over to make custom amp sounds.
The second set includes all the built in presets, and these can’t be changed.
Each rig contains a similar signal chain consisting of the input, wah, effect1, distortion, modulation,
delay, volume, amp, cabinet, effects loop, effects2, reverb and output.
To start making edits to a rig, first scroll through the different rigs with the scroll
wheel and pick the one you want to edit.
To makes some basic changes, a lot of rigs have their amp controls available from the
default view.
This allows us to use the bottom knobs on the Eleven Rack to quickly change settings
such as the gain and equalization, without having to enter edit mode.
Some even have a bright switch to change the tone which is activated by pressing the SW2
button to the side of the screen.
All the pedals and effects that are available can also be activated and bypassed without
entering edit mode.
The buttons to the right allow us to turn them on and off.
When they’re green that means the pedal or effect is on.
If they are not lit up, the effect or pedal is bypassed.
For more control of our rig, we need to enter EDIT mode.
Press the edit/back button to enter this mode.
Don’t hold it down, otherwise you will enter the menu like we did last time.
From the signal chain view, we can use the scroll wheel to scroll through the different
parts of the rig.
If we want to rearrange them, we use the SW2 button, which is next to the MOVE icon on
the screen.
Then we can scroll and place the part of the rig somewhere else in the signal chain.
Press the SW2 to confirm the move, or SW1 to exit and cancel the move.
When we hover over a part of the signal chain with the scroll wheel, we’ll see one of
the knobs on the bottom lights up.
We can turn this knob to change what the effect or amp is at that point in the signal chain.
So if we’re hovering over amps, turning this will change the amp we’re using.
To get more controls for the amps, we’ll use the SW1 button to enter control mode.
Now we’ll see a bunch of controls listed on the screen with the knobs for all of them
lit up underneath on the Eleven Rack.
If there are more controls that there are knobs, we’ll have to use the scroll knob
to switch between them.
Otherwise, we can just turn the knobs and the settings for that amp or pedal will change.
This works the same whether it’s an amp, pedal, output, or anything else we might enter
edit mode for.
When we’re done making edits, just use the edit/back button to exit.
One thing we’ll want to consider is the output.
If we go here, we can adjust the rig output level.
We’ll definitely want to play around with these, since a lot of the rigs don’t have
the same volume output.
We can use this to change the output level, so we’re not constantly adjusting the headphones
if we switch between them.
When you’re done, press the Save button on the Eleven Rack.
Use the scroll wheel the Rig that you’ll be overwriting.
Then use the first knob to change what character in the name you’ll be changing.
Next use the rest of the knobs to change the letter or number.
You can use the SW1 and SW2 buttons to insert a space or delete a character.
When you’re done, press save and it will overwrite the previously saved rig in that
slot.
The Eleven Rack has plenty of included guitar amps and even bass amps, that can be combined
with any of the included cabinets, microphones, and effects.
There are 10 different amplifiers to choose from, each with their own controls.
These amps are designed to simulate a lot of different classic tube amps from companies
like Fender and Marshall, and they do a pretty good job considering the price and amount
of effects you can get with the Eleven Rack.
In general, most of the amps have some sort of volume, gain and eq controls.
They’ll also have a noise gate that you can adjust to cut the signal when it’s just
noise and you’re not playing.
You can adjust the threshold for the gate, since it depends on your guitar and the amount
of noise it picks up.
There are also a bunch of speaker cabinets that include 1x12, 2x12, 4x10, and 4x12 cabinets.
Each of these cabinets can be recorded with a simulated dynamic, condenser or ribbon microphone.
When hovered over the cabinet on the signal chain, you can use the bottom knobs to change
the microphone and cabinet.
There’s also a side button you can use to choose if the microphone is on or off axis,
and that changes the sound as well.
The Eleven Rack has various effects starting with wah and volume pedals.
The distortion includes fuzz, distortion and overdrive.
Modulation has a flanger, chorus/vibrato, vibe phaser, orange phaser and roto speaker.
There is a spring reverb and eleven rack stereo reverb that can be used with any of the rigs.
There’s also a few more pedals including delays, graphic equalizers, and compressors.
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