Recording Dry and Eleven Simultaneously

You can record a dry, unprocessed track and an Eleven-processed track simultaneously.

This method gets the best of both worlds by tracking dry (to experiment with tones later) and at the same time recording the tone used on the original tracking session. It requires two audio track, as follows:

To record guitar dry and with Eleven live:

1 Choose Track > New.

2 Configure the New Tracks dialog to create two mono audio tracks, then click Create.

3 In the Mix (or Edit) window, configure the first (left-most) new audio track by doing the following:

Click the Input selector and choose your guitar input (the audio interface input your guitar is plugged in to).

Click the Output selector and choose Bus 1.

Click the Insert selector and select Eleven.

Record enable the audio track.

4 Configure the second audio track by doing the following:

Click the Input selector and choose Bus 1.

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Record enable the audio track.

5 Make sure you are not overloading your input signal by checking levels in all tracks and Eleven's Input LED.

6 When you’re ready, arm Pro Tools and begin recording.

The dry guitar is recorded to the first audio track, processed through Eleven, then bussed to the second audio track and recorded to disk.