How to use vst's in external monitoring?

Question

Hi,
3 years ago or something I had Windows Vista installed on my notebook and used Revalver to record my guitar tracks in audition. I haven't recorded anything now for 2 years and now I have Windows 7 ultimate on my notebook. But now I only get the clean signal and not the distorted signal from Revalver from my guitar when I try to use Revalver as vst and I don't know why or what I'm doing wrong. But when I click on play after recording, there's the normal distorted signal. And this is what I need while recording because I can't record metal songs when I just hear the clean signal from guitar...
If I remember right, all I did in the past was open audition, then I clicked on options>monitoring>extern.
Then I clicked on the record symbol in multi track session, clicked on the fx symbol> fx on>vst>Revalver
I think that was all. Do you know if I'm doing anything wrong?

Answer 1

arcane-bodom wrote:
Edit: Have to add something... Maybe it has something to do with the following thing... I just rememberd that, when I used Revalver the first time in audition, I could hear my playing (the wet signal) and it also worked when I clicked on record. But when I clicked on play after recording, I had to change something in my output to hear what I've played. Now when I record something, I don't have to change anything.
Maybe this has something to do with latency. If I understand you right, the signal's going through the sound device twice and that causes in latency. So did I managed it 2 years ago to record just the dry signal somehow (but with live monitoring to hear the distorted signal)? And then alter effects afterwards? Or is it just ******** what I'm talking at the moment?
Well, if you had to change anything at all to hear what you'd just recorded in Audition, then you absolutely weren't monitoring through it! And yes, you are quite correct - the signal is going quite a long way around - it has to. Audition only ever records the dry signal - short of routing the effected channel to a spare output on your sound device, and re-recording that on another input, there's no way to do anything different. But whatever you do, the wet monitor signal, whatever you do with it, is going to have a comparatively large latency delay.
The only thing that you might have managed (and this is a trick that's worth noting) is to monitor the guitar input signal directly, and mixed the latency-delayed effect signal coming back from Audition with it. Under these circumstances you won't notice the delay, because there isn't any on the direct monitoring, and the effect will kick in in a far less noticeable way. It does involve having reasonably comprehensive monitoring controls on your sound device (or an external mixer) to do this, though.