User guide

Chapter 9: Eleven Rack with Pro Tools 85
Recording Guitars
The simplest way to record guitar with
Eleven Rack is to simply plug in your guitar, cre-
ate a track in Pro Tools, and record the sound
coming from the Rig.
To record guitar through the Rig to a track in
Pro Tools:
1 Click on the Track menu in Pro Tools and se-
lect New.
2 In the New Tracks dialog, create one stereo au-
dio track.
3 Using the Input Selector, assign the input on
the stereo track you’ve created to Interface >
Eleven Rig L/R.
4 Record-enable the track.
5 Select a Rig in the Eleven Rack Control win-
dow, and tweak its settings, if necessary.
6 Press Record, then Play, in the Pro Tools trans-
port.
7 Record your guitar part.
Recording Wet and Dry Signals
The Guitar Input on Eleven Rack shows up in
Pro Tools as a standard mono input path (Guitar
In). This input passes the guitar signal, unpro-
cessed, to Pro Tools, where it can be recorded as
normal.
The guitar signal also passes through the pro-
cessing features of Eleven Rack, and the pro-
cessed stereo output from the amp, cabinet, mic
and effects simulations shows up as a second,
stereo input path in Pro Tools for monitoring
and/or recording (Eleven Rig L and R). Thus, the
dry guitar signal and the output of the Rig can
be recorded onto separate tracks, for processing
and editing flexibility.
This means that when recording guitars with
Eleven Rack, you can decide on a tone you enjoy
and record your parts, but retain a clean version
of those parts as well. Later, if you decide you
want a different sound, or simply want to stack
different tones on top of one another, you can
re-amp those original, unaffected guitar tracks
through a different set of Rig characteristics on
Eleven Rack, or even another external guitar
setup.
To record wet and dry versions of a guitar part
simultaneously for future re-amping:
1 Click on the Track menu in Pro Tools and
select New.
2 In the New Tracks dialog, do one of the
following:
• Create one mono audio track
– or –
• Create one stereo audio track.
3 Assign the input on the mono track you’ve
created to Interface > Guitar In.
Input selector
Record-enable
button
For information on the re-amping process,
“Re-Amping” on page 88.