Wow, thank you for shedding light on this. Awesome video tutorial.

i've always been curious how to route hardware effects. Sackkkkkk bruh!!! Thanks!

Love that busted kick drum sound. Thank you sooo much for the info man.

Thank you for showing this, i will try it out right away, as i always wondered how to record Ext. FX properly. Stay Safe.

Thank you! Great tutorial

Super useful to know man, thanks!

Quite helpful, thank you.

You’re a G, thanks for this 👏👏👏

Great! very helpful! thanks man

Dude GREAT tutorial ...so much new info... Same setup kinda

cool workaround! thx man

Great tutorial!!!!!!!

fantastic tip! life saver

Super helpful vid. Thanks!

Thank you!

so dope! thanks ... I have Ableton Intro ... this method will work perfectly ...

this was the most helpful video

Much appreciated!

Lifesaver! So easy! Hard without knowing though lol

soo helpful cheers

Thanks bro

You are a star

Dope. Thanks brah. Would you always recommend direct monitoring? Why would anyone use that external instrument device if they have direct monitoring?

can i ask why you don't use abletons external effect plugin to achieve the same results? great video, and thanks for the send/return clarification too.

what a valuable advice !! thanks !!

Could you please make a video using the unison preamps UA610B from the apollo and also without the unison try to reach the same result with other plugins!

Wow, I've been looking for a vid like this. Good explanation with visual and live demos. Thanks! Will this same process work for trying to mix with external gear? Based on ableton website the way they show how to route audio was totally different. They wanted me to send our from AL on 5-6 to a virtual channel on the twin that had to be linked etc. So confusing

Ideally wouldn't you want to use a Re-amp device like a radial X amp to get the signal from line level to instrument level? You're a genius for this latency proof method.

Guitar pedals have TS inputs and outputs. What cables did you use? TRS - TS?

when i try direct monitoring reverb as a send, there is a phasey sound on the vocals. is this because of latency with the hardware? How do I fix it?

This is a great tip. I don't quite understand why it works though. Why does DAW monitoring cause latency - isn't the audio interface processing causing latency regardless of whether you listen to the playback or not? What about using Lives external audio effect plugin?

Great

Super useful dude! Is it the same to use an API lunchbox?

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Don't you need a reamp box to match the impedance of the instrument line going to the daw? or does the apollo solve that problem?

How do i plug TC electronics Hall Of Fame 2 reverb to the sound card to use on plugins or audio track?

Any tips on plugging a Hughes and a Kettner GM 40 into the Apollo usb via the on board red box? Signal seems super hot and not representative of the amp. Thank you!

I'm also trying to affect drums, synths and vocals with the pedals that I have but took so much time to figure it out and I really can't get my head around what's wrong. My configuration is as follows: I have a Zoom H5 as an interface, selected Stereo instead of Multi-Track. I plugged my Jack in the output 1 running throug the pedals and then going into output 2. Was happy to know that I could test this out before deciding whether to buy an impedance box as I could hear on my 2 speakers (connected through the line out of the Zoom H5) the effect of my cathedral reverb and big muff pedal when I messed with the knobs. When I tried to send a drum sample through another track with the the "In" activated it just won't get affected by the pedals, but the sound of the drums is heard in conjunction with the sound that the pedals make(without anything else) separately. I only have the channels 1, 2 and 1/2 and tried various combinations to see what to do to get those drums affected by the pedals. The reason why I mentioned setting my interface to Stereo instead of Multi-Track is that I have seen in other posts some people mentioning that you need a 3/4 channel which is not showing up in Stereo Mode on my setup but only in multi track. However, I have huge issues with the Multi-Track as I can't seem to figure out how to not make the sound crack. I tried something with my 3/4 channel but still didn't get any results. When I got the output 1 jack out of my interface and plugged my guitar, it worked fine. I just want to get into doing some sound design for instruments. What do I really need to do step by step? What's the correct setup for this from the very beginning? Can I get them to work with just the 1, 2 and 1/2 channels? Really wanted to ask it in the most basic way so other who are new to this can understand the whole process.

Hello! Thanks for the video. Something is not working as your saying in the video when I'm using the send. Try to do a send as you would like to do a parrallel comp with an external comp and let me know what is the result for you. When I'm doing that kind of config a latency is generated on the monitored track. No problem with the recorded track. I found a trick which is working but let me know what's your feeling about that. Thx again

Cool.. 😎

Nice vid

Ok! And if i want drop effect on MIDI Chanel? How should i record if i have more than 2 chanels, exempel drums and i want on all chanels drop external compressor and on hhat reverb! How i can make à Mix- Down

Your video is absolutely didactic. My congratulations, really very good.

Do you have your voice over running through a pitch shift in this video? Using headphones, I can hear your voice doubled, but higher pitched.

so wait are we not using a re-amping box to convert the line level to Instrument? Any reason why you feel that is unnecessary ??

I get horrible feeding back when doing this. Any thoughts as to why?

Do you need any kind of impedance conversion devices to make this work? Would I need one if I used pedals as vocal inserts before they ever reached the software??

Hey im trying to do this same thing with my big sky plus other hardware. Using a Focusrite Scarlette 2i2 and the same settings in ableton. But im getting a disgusting feedback loop every time, plus can only monitor both dry and wet tracks when I only want to monitor the wet track. Any tips??

this is not working for me :'( nor is the external effect plugin !!!! CAN ANYONE HELP ME :(

Hi Seed, my name's Stefano, nice to meet you!! :) A few days ago the Audio Merge KTBK HPF also arrived for me but I can't get it to work. I have a sound card which is the Apollo Twin from Universal audio and I use Ableton live 11 as a daw. Could you tell me how to connect the HPF to the sound card and how should I make it work inside the daw?? I await your kind feedback, thank you!! :)❤💛💚

Great video! I'm new to using hardware efx (pedals etc.) so this may be a dumb question... Can you use a patch bay to connect to a few different pedals so you don't have to keep switching them out? if so, will it effect the quality? I am using the uad 2 twin quad. Also, if I use the optical expansion to have more ins, can I connect the hardware efxs the same way? Thanks!

I connected my SP404 i/o to apllo 1/2in and 3/4out. It gives a very high pitched noise and if I turn up the input level pass certain amount(not even loud) it immediately burst out screaming with the super high pitched noise. I intended to use it as a realtime FX and I setup the way you did in the begining, the channel that outputs to 3/4(Apollo to SP404) I see signal bumping, but the second channel thats for sending it back in to input1/2 shows no signal and I can't hear anything through my headphone. Do you have any suggestion for me to troubleshoot this issue? Much appreciation! Having been trying for two days its driving me nuts

The reason iam doing this now just because i wanna find the sound that i like from my pedalboards combination that can mix with tracks. Next time i can use it again cause i captured all the setting from my pedal board with camera phone/ memory preset (multifx). But i dont't know why still cannot do even i tried to follow the step from this video. nu-be

Halp. I have it set up the exact same way as you do...(so I think) I'm using a Scarlett 6i6 and a decimator pedal. When I send out the main source to output 3, and have it come back in input 1...I don't hear anything. There's clearly signal going out, I can see it on the meter but no signal coming in.....BUT when I play anything else on a normal track or even this youtube video, I suddenly can hear it all and it's all coming through input 1. I've tried having an additional identical main source track going without any outputs just so sound is coming out of the interface....but since all my audio from my computer is going out input 3, it just creates a crazy feedback loop. Can you help? Running Ableton Live 10 on a Mabook Pro.

What's wrong with just using the external effects racks?? At least that compensates for latency automatically? I use multiple external inserts in series without latency issues. Plus I can save presets (pretty much necessity if you have 32 i/o like I do in my situation.) This all seams very convoluted. -> Audio Effects -> external audio effect

"vintage Vibe" Back in my day we fought distortion every step of the way, now it's trendy? Go figure!

i keep getting awful feedback when trying to do this... any of yall know why ?

This is wrong. If theres no good reason to do otherwise, use abletons "Ext. audio effect" in your effect chain or return, it has delay compensation and no need for extra tracks.

dude, you're taking a stereo signal and reamping it as mono. Even your reverb ends up mono

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this shit doesnt work! im using the same gear he has except im using 500 series

The problem is you are always having to monitor the original signal, so you can never ONLY hear the effect... sort of passable for an effect like this... but what if you wanted to use mastering outboard gear? You'd ALWAYS have to hear the original audio and the affected audio LAYERD, if you mute the original audio to hear the outboard gear's signal, you CUT the audio to the outboard gear! You'd think the "external audio effect" would be the answer... NOPE! The external audio effects does the same ******ING thing, rather than shutting the out audio off and waiting to ONLY let the incoming audio in, it plays them in parallel, WHICH MAKES A FEEDBACK LOOP!!!!!!! Every last person at ableton should be fired.

Thank you!