Track vs Master Insert Sound Quality Issue with Guitar

[JGC]

Hi All. First post, because I'm confused!
I'm a long time Logic Pro user in which it's very simple to setup a guitar track with any of the amp sims I own, including many of the native equivalent Brainworx sims. In Logic, the sound is exactly the same regardless of whether I put reverb in the audio guitar track (as another audio fx insert) or in the stereo out (master) track. However in Luna, there is a significant difference between how the guitar sounds when reverb is placed as a track insert or as an insert in the 'main' bus/track. The sound is thin and boxy in the former but sounds as it would in Logic if placed on the main out bus. What's that all about?

 

[tonic]

Is the track on mono?
If so, the effect will be in mono.
the bus is in stereo.

 

[chrisharbin]

I'm not sure I follow. My other host than Luna is Live. Guitars sound exactly same in both. One thing about Luna is that it doesn't have mono to stereo.

I suggest this, it's "free" (or you can donate if you wish, it's like 5 bucks):

hitshaper - true mono monitoring (free)

It's on every guitar and bass track here. Using just a mono track in Luna doesn't work for me with sims.

 

[AlexR]

Hi All. First post, because I'm confused!
I'm a long time Logic Pro user in which it's very simple to setup a guitar track with any of the amp sims I own, including many of the native equivalent Brainworx sims. In Logic, the sound is exactly the same regardless of whether I put reverb in the audio guitar track (as another audio fx insert) or in the stereo out (master) track. However in Luna, there is a significant difference between how the guitar sounds when reverb is placed as a track insert or as an insert in the 'main' bus/track. The sound is thin and boxy in the former but sounds as it would in Logic if placed on the main out bus. What's that all about?

If you are using Native plugins, in Luna they are disabled when the track its in record.
In Logic you are basically monitoring trough the DAW and dealing with whatever latency you get from the plugins.
Luna is designed to give you a latency free monitoring when using UAD2 plugins since the processing of said plugins is offload to the Sharc Chips inside the Apollos. But obviously you can't do that with regular plugins so they get bypassed while you are tracking, which might explain the difference is sown that you hear. FYI also the track in record is taken off the stereo buss path to be put in the monitoring audio path while tracking, so you wont hear whatever processing you have on the stereo buss on your guitar until you are off recording