5 Reasons To ALWAYS Use Control Room in Cubase Pro #cubase #controlroom #tutorial

don't don't do it don't push that button be cool now you're better than this don't turn off control room don't push the button hello guys and welcome back dom here and on this video i'm going to talk about a cubase feature that doesn't get enough praise it doesn't get the respect that it deserves and that's the control room so in this video i'm going to give you five reasons why you should always use control room if you're a cubase pro user and i'm going to tell you why right now so let's talk about control room today one of the most powerful cubase features and i have to say one of the most unique cubase features because this is one of the things that really separate cubase to other dws now for some weird reason that i don't understand some people are really scared of control room i really have no idea why that is basically they go to their audio connections and you see we have our inputs our outputs we have our control room and what they do is they go here they say okay i'm going to set my outputs right here one and two and then they go to control room like no no i don't know what that is turn it off turn it off turn it off you know don't be scared of control room guys it's an amazing feature you know don't turn it off if you're using cubase pro there is no reason to turn it off seriously now another argument is that oh you know i don't need all these features that control room has i don't need the cues i don't need to monitor i'm not going to record other musicians and i don't need it well that's the point of this video right so let's start reason number one why you'd want to use the control room number one you can do a b referencing with other mixes with reference tracks with client mixes you can compare versions of your own song and see if you've done better this is all possible and very easy to do using control room so let me show you i have my control room right here okay let's go to my control room tab and as you can see i have my mix and i have my c1 this is my first cue so now all i need to do is i need to play my track okay and uh i can compare the before and after version right maybe i can have a version one then go to version two and say did i improve it did i do anything that's better so let's play this and we can have a look let's say that this is the mix and this is the master and i want to beat that master right so let's play it [Music] and maybe i want to work towards this mastering and make it better you know and then i can compare between the two this is the most basic function people buy plugins for this people buy monitor controllers for this so they can do this simple switch that i do at the push of a button here or using a shortcut or using my kensington slim blade i love this thing have you watched the video about the kensington stream blade if you haven't i'm gonna link it right here i've done a dedicated video about how to do a b referencing with control room so please check it out i'm going to link it right here and go and check out how you can set it up and everything i go into a lot of detail on that video now one of the things that i want to tell you before i close the first reason is that on your reference track on your q mix right you need to make sure that you are on cue and not on mix because if you are a mix nothing see nothing will happen you need to be on cue okay i thought that this makes sense but uh i think that some people missed it on the video that i made even though it was there uh but you know it's a very fair point you need to have your q set as your input for your reference okay reason number two we don't even need to discuss about this it's metering right look at that check out this meter here this beautiful meter right this section to begin with is only there when you activate control room and here you can do all these beautiful things you can have your master meter like this nice and big how many dws have this built in like a nice big meter that you can see from the edge of the room okay if you're recording an orchestra you can have a look at a tiny screen and you can see if you're clipping if you're near zero how many dws have that people buy plugins that have like massive meters and you know i also have some of them but this is built in activate control room in order to get this and as you can see we have many scales digital scale dense scale ebu scale british scale i'm not going to go through all of them k20 bobcat scale all these things you know then we have a loudness meter this is an lefs meter so you run your truck through it and it gives you the integrated lefs loudness right so this is really relevant these days for spotify for itunes you have to keep an eye on this always you know use your judgment but you need to know where you are at some point if you're going to release your music also if you're a film composer if you're writing music for games for films this is very strict you're in a very strict territory if you're producing music for games or films for tv you cannot just go blind you need something like this again control room feature use it even that reason alone along with the a b referencing is enough do you need more anyway i'm gonna give you three more so reason number three is of course the q sense right now i really support the idea that if you're using a dw find its strong points and use them to your advantage control room is one of these advantages that cubase has compared to other dws let me give you a scenario let's say that you are in a recording studio and you have reduced your track but you want to add some orchestral elements and you've invited some really cool musicians and you have the cello player how do you send these people a fee to you their headphones right you do this with cue sends where do you find cue cents if you press f4 and go to your audio connections control room there you will find number one your monitors these are your speakers easy your cues in this case i have my reference queue which i use for a being you know mixes you can also add channels you can add headphone mixes you can add more speakers and you can switch between them all through cubase without any hardware controller you can have a talkback mic you can have external inputs it's very deep but let's say i want to add another cube because i want to send uh my musicians a headphone mix right i add another cue and let's call this musicians musician okay now i can send this to an output on my other interface i can decide which one i'm not gonna do it at this stage because it doesn't really matter but now if i want to send this on most dws what happens is people create buses and they send the the tracks to all the buses and they send they use the sands and all these things and that's you know the traditional way but it's a very slow way check out how you can do it you can just show your q sense on your mixer okay and then here we are we have our cues and this is what our musicians are going to listen right now my cues are off they're not hearing anything so if i want to activate them i can just select all the channels okay and alt shift like with everything in cubase this affects all the channels that i have selected activate reference or activate my musician mix actually that's what we need and now i can say okay here's your feed now i'm sending them a feed from all the channels pretty easy i did it in like two clicks one two like that then let's say that you want to give the musicians their own mix and maybe you want to start with your own mix as a reference that's very easy to do check out these these levels right here i can go here now okay go to control room cue sense and say use current mix levels and check out those those faders right those sliders and boom now are my musicians have the exact same mix on their headphones like i have but let's say our cello player says you know what i want less drums okay i can go to my drums and say okay less drums that's fine uh more of this less of that that's good that's pretty awesome when you work with musicians you need to have the flexibility that we have here just think about it let's say that at some point you do work with musicians when you're using another dw you know there are dws i don't even have these facilities okay they're working with very basic sand effects and sand and returns and all these things when you find yourself in a situation like this cubase has your back cubase is a very creative daw it's not like a sterile tape recorder you know you know what i'm talking about let's not name people and daws it's not like a tape recorder right it's very creative it's very musical it invites you to produce music but when it comes a time that you end up having to be an audio engineer or having to be a recording engineer it's got your back it has all the features that you need i've seen people using other daws and we go to a recording situation and musicians start asking more i want some reverb i want some of that i want some more more trumpet i want less bass i want and they go like what do you do i don't know what to do how do you do this you know they think that they have to go to a large scale console to do this on an ssl or something no if you're using cubase cubase got your back now let's say that you're just recording yourself and you're a one-man band or a one-woman band right and you have your drums you've created a backing track and then you want to sync your vocals but you prefer not to hear some elements of the production you prefer to have a completely different mix when you're tracking i do this a lot of times okay sometimes my tracks my songs have so many synths that if i want to add an element that i want that is very delicate and i want to have a very clear idea of how it sounds sometimes i want to get rid of things maybe i want to get rid of effects or of like washes or all these things what do you do then that's where the cues can help you even if you're working on your own because you can say okay well i have my mix there it's copied i'm going to use this one this cue to track right and i'm going to turn off the elements that i don't need for tracking you know or you might invite a bass player you know and you want to keep them very very focused on the rhythm section and you want to give them only drums what would you do would you destroy your mix would you start muting all these things and then what you have to remember to bring them back well don't do this just use a cue and then you can create a different mix when you're tracking and a different mix when you are mixing and you don't touch your mix your mix remains sacred remains untouched reason number four and that's again a super important thing is that we have monitoring insert effects okay they live here check them out control room inserts okay there we go now as you can see i have three insert effects here i have my clarity m which is my meter i have tonal balance control 2 from isotope that's great for checking out your balance between your frequencies and i also have the sonarworks reference 4 for my headphones sometimes i want to add a little bit of correction to my headphones this is a great plugin right now the benefit of adding these plugins there instead of adding it to your stereo out quite a few benefits actually number one you don't sacrifice insert slots for your monitoring effects okay these are already three slots and sometimes i add more i would sacrifice just three inserts just do my basic monitoring number two you don't have to have a template and always have these effects on your master bus why because these effects remain there okay they're not project specific they're not tied to a project they're there whenever you launch cubase whatever project you open they will remain there you can turn them off you can change them but they will remain as you left them so you don't have to remember to turn on your room correction plugin you don't have to remember to turn on your metering plugin you don't have to do all that the other benefit is that there is no way that you will make this huge mistake of bouncing your song with the room correction plugging on if you use another daw and you add it to the stereo out there are high chances that at some point it will happen and you will look like a fool to your clients even to yourself you'd be like something's wrong with this why is it sounding weird it sounded great in the studio why does it sound weird on my earphones well well that's because the monitoring plugins shouldn't be in the stereo bus it should be in the monitoring section of the daw if it has one okay oh man i'll become really excited about this anyway i've seen this happening many times it has happened to you know people that i know and they were really embarrassed and you know okay if you don't use cubase that's fine there's no other way but if you do use cubase just use the control room right just use it just don't think about it reason number five is ergonomics okay let me explain because these are quite a few things i cannot go through all of them but i'm just going to show you a few okay so here's my control room some things that i always do when i'm recording and again when you're tracking other people do you use the metronome let me know do you use the metronome no don't let me know because everybody use the metronome everybody uses a click okay so with control room you can activate and deactivate the click okay i'm just telling you a few ergonomics that are really useful okay let's go off on it's right there okay that's fine but we have a shortcut for this perfect but how do you turn down the volume for the metronome if you don't have control room activated you will go to transport and go to metronome setup and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah you don't need to do this activate control room and you have control over your click level not only that you can say i want to have the click only on the left channel or the right channel because some people like to track like this you know they go like this and there's no point having a click here where it would spill all these things are not just small things this will make or break your recording you know so just pan it here doesn't come from this side okay small things like that how many dws can do that they add a metronome click they bounce it in audio so that they can just go left and right you know um i mean i'm not trying to be you know dismissive of other daws all i'm trying to say is if you're using cubase pro you owe it to yourself you owe it to yourself to use control room you can check your mono compatibility of your mix because you can down mix in mono check out [Music] with one click you can also dim your levels you know you can just go like this and say i want dim okay so if somebody's talking to you you can assign this to a keystroke and then you can press dim and the volume will go down like a control room section or the console you can of course you can turn down your volume but not turning down your master bus see your master bus is intact you just turn down your monitoring volume okay this is extremely useful you can also listen to what your musician is listening to their cue because you can go like this and listen to their cue you know all these things or you can have your musician listen to your mix and you can say you know what i'm tracking this musician i don't want to have the click i want to hear exactly what happens so you can deactivate the click for you and you can activate the click for the musician how cool is that can you imagine how much routing how many you know diy solutions you would have to find in order to do this without the control room keep control room alive don't kill it control room loves you another thing when i talking about ergonomics i don't want to forget this with control room activated you can listen every channel of your mix okay let me explain how many times have you wanted to just listen the parallel compressor in solo without listening to the original signal how many times do you want to listen to just the reverb and then you do pre-fade you know you you turn down your channel volume and then you go pre-fade listen and all these things you don't need to do all these things when you have control room activated let me show you okay so let's say that i want to listen to let's find something that's going to be hard to listen if we don't have control room so let's say you want to listen to this snare reverb okay without listening to the actual snare how do you do this you know if you mute these then the reaver won't play anything if you solo it then you also hear the dry snare right so the solution is just pressing this l button here check out [Music] whatever this is it could be a parallel compressor it could be anything cubase just shuts everything off and just highlights this channel and when i say highlights i really mean it you can set the listen dim level to your liking for example if i want to hear a little bit of the track i can go like this check out or completely turn everything else off so i can isolate reverbs uh send effects parallel compression effects anything that i want if you don't have control room activated this function doesn't work it's just not there it's not available so you guys must probably know by now that i'm a huge huge fan of control room but i hope that after this video you will give control room a try and you will be a much happier cubase user so let me know in the comments down below what do you think of control room did you use it up to this point did you know the things that you can do are you going to start using it or are you going to stick with the old ways and disable it don't do it whatever the case might be if you enjoyed this video hit the thumbs up button it really helps me out subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and share it with any cubase user that you know that presses that disable control room button [Music] save control room we still have time take care guys i'll see you in the next one bye-bye

Channel: Dom Sigalas

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Length: 22min 12sec (1332 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020