Specifications

Audio Plug-Ins Guide556
Tweaking Phase
If each of the mics used on a single cabinet are
not positioned carefully, comb filtering and
other frequency anomalies can occur. With real
amps, the engineer moves one or more mics to
find their optimal positions relative to the
source, and to each other.
To hear the effect of small adjustments to the
phase relationships of signals, do the following.
To use the Time Adjuster plug-in to control phase:
1 Configure your audio track and Aux Inputs as
instructed in “Blending Eleven Cabinets and
Amps” on page 552. Make sure each Aux Input
has an Eleven plug-in followed by a TimeAd-
juster (short) plug-in.
2 Open the plug-in window for each of the Time-
Adjuster plug-ins (click the first one to open it,
then Shift-click each of the other TimeAdjuster
plug-ins).
3 Adjust the Delay slider in one sample incre-
ments. Listen to the effect it has on the com-
bined signal. Repeat, increasing the Delay by one
sample each time.
4 Try combinations of TimeAdjuster settings
with flipped and non-flipped Phase settings for
endlessly variable tonal possibilities.
Eleven Tips and Suggestions
This section leaves you with some tips and sug-
gestions for other ways you can integrate Eleven
into your sessions.
Changing Settings versus
Switching Amps
Many guitarists use different tones to maximize
the contrast between sections of a song (intro,
verse, chorus, or bridge). Some examples in-
clude:
• Soft (or clean) tone for the verse, kick in the
distortion for the chorus.
• Using tremolo during the intro and the
bridge.
• Doubling the rhythm track halfway through
the verse to build momentum.
Pro Tools automaton is the key to these and
other techniques:
 For simple, single amp contrasts such as
soft/loud, choose an amp and automate its gain,
drive, volume or other parameter to achieve the
desired tone change. This uses the least amount
of processing resources of the examples pro-
vided here.
 To switch amps, automate the Amp Type selec-
tor and any other controls (you cannot automate
the selection of Pro Tools plug-in Settings files).
Depending on the amount of overlap or cross-
fading you want between tones, you might be
better off using the next, multi-Eleven workflow.
See the Pro Tools Reference Guide to learn
about Snapshot automation, Glide, and
other automation features,