No Reverb Effect!!!

[FailingToWake]

Hey Everyone!!

This is my first post, so if you don't understand my problem, feel free to ask.

I have the entire band recorded (drums, guitar and bass) for a metal song. As I am doing the vocals, There is one chunk of the vocals where I would like to put some reverb/echo effect, without affecting the rest of the track. Here's what I have tried so far:

I cut the vocal track so I have selected only the section I want with the effect. I then go into the AudioSuite menu, choose D-verb, tweak the settings so it sounds great in the preview, then I click process. After I click process, the little status bar comes up and says processing. . . it then fills the bar, and goes away, just like if you were to put the effect on the track. However, I have no effect on the vocals.

This also happens with the other plug ins like when I try to reverse the sounds. Again, I do not want the effect on the entire track, just the small portion.

Any help is appreciated, and I thank you all in advance. Have a great day!!

Failing To Wake - the band I'm recording

[Ormond]

Turn off low latency monitoring?

[FailingToWake]

thanks, i'll give it a shot.

[Holly73]

Is the piece of audio you put the effect on actually replaced in the playlist? In the upper section of your plugin window you can choose "use in playlist" (or something like this, I'm not at my PT rig right now).

[trakbytes]

I cut the vocal track so I have selected only the section I want with the effect. I then go into the AudioSuite menu, choose D-verb, tweak the settings so it sounds great in the preview, then I click process. After I click process, the little status bar comes up and says processing. . . it then fills the bar, and goes away, just like if you were to put the effect on the track. However, I have no effect on the vocals.

Since you are probably fairly new to Pro Tools, you may not be this far along yet, but a better way to do this would be:

Create an Aux input. Put D-Verb on this as an insert. (Make it 100% wet). Go to your I/O settings and create a Bus. Label it as "D-Verb Send". It can be a mono Bus. Now go back to your Aux track and make its input "D-Verb Send" Assign its output to the same output as the rest of your mix tracks.

Now, go to your Vocal track and assign a send to the "D-Verb Send" bus. Enable automation if you are not already using it, and write enable the send level and mute. Mute the send, and turn up the level, maybe to -15 or so. Now, when you come to the vocal part you want to add reverb to just un-mute the send and then re-mute after the line. Season to taste...

Sorry if this is too basic an explanation, and I'm sure this info is in the mixing section of the manual, but I thought an alternative method might be good to mention.

Bob

[FailingToWake]

I have tried to replace in playlist, and every other option available, still it does nothing. Other than give me a headache, of course, haha.