Reverb Plugins!

[Love Monkey Studios]

Hey everybody! I'm a relatively new PT user, and I have a question. When I'm working on mixing Drums, I often want to put a reverb onto my main OH L and R. What's bugging me is that I seem to have to either A) use a drum submix and put the verb onto that (which I find annoying, as I like seperate verbs for snare and overheads, not to mention the kick) or B) Copy and paste settings from one to the other as I adjust the verbs. This is annoying and time consuming, not to mention it's a pain. Is there a way to group the two tracks so that when I use D-Verb or waves that when I change one setting it changes the other track as well? I did read the manual, and I couldn't quite figure it out. Sorry for the newbie question, but I need help!

Thanks

[mersisblue]

I don't know any way to have one follow the other but

A ) you can send to a stereo aux with a stereo verb

B ) save your settings on the plugin and recall on the other plug

[Slim Shady]

Are you using mono tracks for your overheads? If so, just put them on a stereo track instead, then you only need one reverb for the stereo track.

The usual route however is to bus your tracks to a reverb aux track so you can control your reverb levels w/o opening the plug-in. As the previous poster mentioned, create a stereo aux track and put your verb on it, then bus your OH tracks to the reverb bus and mix to taste.

[Love Monkey Studios]

I am using stereo overheads. How can I combine two mono tracks into one stereo track? Is there a combine tracks function? I have tried the reverb return to two spare channels thing, but I've never liked it, either on protools or on my analog board.

[JFreak]

just record them as one stereo audio track instead of two mono audio tracks.

[AdamF]

In the file menu there is a combine and separate stereo tracks functions..

I am using stereo overheads. How can I combine two mono tracks into one stereo track? Is there a combine tracks function? I have tried the reverb return to two spare channels thing, but I've never liked it, either on protools or on my analog board.

[Love Monkey Studios]

thanks! That will work, as I use a Analog board and a Mackie HDR for tracking. Pro tools is just for fun and/or final mixing.

[Love Monkey Studios]

actually, that won't work. My protools does not have a combine command. There is a "split stereo tracks", but no combine. I am on PT 5, is it a PT 6 thing?

[RinnyTin]

No, whoever said there was a "combine mono tracks into stereo" command was mistaken, but THERE SHOULD BE ONE! That would be a great feature. Create a Stereo Audio track and grab the audio from the 2 mono tracks and drag in into the stereo track. You drag audio like caveman. Primitive but works. Some say stereo track not pan as wide as two mono. You listen.

[JFreak]

one can always use the "brute force" method to achieve anything.

in this case, make a stereo audio track and set inputs to a stereo buss, say 1-2, and then output those two mono channels to that buss panning the other hard left and the other hard right. then just re-record the track and be done with it.

however it should be simpler in protools. digi, have we missed something?