chasingluma
New Member
Hi all,
Posted this on reddit, but wanted to post here as well to try and get an answer as soon as possible.
I just received my Sphere LX mic from UA this week and had a unique question that I haven't quite been able to find the answer to. My vocal recording workflow is tracking and using UAD REC to hard print Auto Tune in realtime, and I also monitor through the UAD console. However, I would love the option to NOT print and hard commit the Sphere Mic Collection plugin in the UAD console, but still be able to print the Auto Tune. It would be ideal to have that control to be able to dial in the Sphere plugin settings AFTER the recording process and not have to be too committal with microphone emulation selections.
In an ideal world, I would be able to set the UAD REC / UAD MON setting PER plugin, rather than per channel. Obviously, one option would be to just monitor, and adapt by using the Auto Tune plugin in Ableton on my vocal chain, but when making projects with 10+ vocal tracks, it can get heavy on the DSP and I prefer to hard commit my Auto Tune.
Another option I tried was to not use the Sphere Mic Collection plugin at all in the UAD Console, and only have it on the Ableton vocal chain, but it's too jarring to record and monitor through the Console because of the way that the LX works with front and back mics, it's too jarring to record with the L/R channels being so vastly different and the left ear being so much louder.
And lastly, my vocal chain in Ableton has too much latency to want to monitor through Ableton, and defeats the purpose of the wonderful feature of the 0 latency monitoring with the Apollo system... So I'm at a bit of a loss of what to do!
If anyone has any solutions or wants to point out an option that I might be missing here, or if I haven't explained my issue here well enough, let me know. I'd love to optimize my workflow with this mic and not have to change the way I do things too much.
Posted this on reddit, but wanted to post here as well to try and get an answer as soon as possible.
I just received my Sphere LX mic from UA this week and had a unique question that I haven't quite been able to find the answer to. My vocal recording workflow is tracking and using UAD REC to hard print Auto Tune in realtime, and I also monitor through the UAD console. However, I would love the option to NOT print and hard commit the Sphere Mic Collection plugin in the UAD console, but still be able to print the Auto Tune. It would be ideal to have that control to be able to dial in the Sphere plugin settings AFTER the recording process and not have to be too committal with microphone emulation selections.
In an ideal world, I would be able to set the UAD REC / UAD MON setting PER plugin, rather than per channel. Obviously, one option would be to just monitor, and adapt by using the Auto Tune plugin in Ableton on my vocal chain, but when making projects with 10+ vocal tracks, it can get heavy on the DSP and I prefer to hard commit my Auto Tune.
Another option I tried was to not use the Sphere Mic Collection plugin at all in the UAD Console, and only have it on the Ableton vocal chain, but it's too jarring to record and monitor through the Console because of the way that the LX works with front and back mics, it's too jarring to record with the L/R channels being so vastly different and the left ear being so much louder.
And lastly, my vocal chain in Ableton has too much latency to want to monitor through Ableton, and defeats the purpose of the wonderful feature of the 0 latency monitoring with the Apollo system... So I'm at a bit of a loss of what to do!
If anyone has any solutions or wants to point out an option that I might be missing here, or if I haven't explained my issue here well enough, let me know. I'd love to optimize my workflow with this mic and not have to change the way I do things too much.