Tascam DP24: Apply compressor to a track after its been recorded?

[Chrisc_o]

The manual should explain this, if it is possible.

That unit has effects outs. Start there.

[Franz Schiller]

Well, of course I checked the manual.

It does not say anything about applying compression, in the same way you would apply reverb or chorus.

However, I see what you're getting at: you're suggesting sending the effects out to an input with live compression on it. That's a good idea. (But it wasn't in the manual. )

Thanks for the tip!

[Franz Schiller]

I just want to wrap this thread up for posterity, in the event another DP24 user finds this on a search....

I emailed Tascam directly, and asked them. Tascam support said frankly, it is NOT possible to apply a compressor after a track has been recorded.

So the only workaround in the above, i.e., running an effects out, and running it back into an Input A-H, and then assigning that to some unused track. I actually haven't tried this yet because my DP24 is at my rehearsal space, so I'll give it a go the next time I'm there.

[kokohi5]

I just got a DP24 last week and was wondering the same thing. Did you ever get it to work?

[Franz Schiller]

Well, sort of.

I ended just getting a Joemeek external compressor, and running an effects out line to it.

But I realized that you could run and effects out, and then run it back in to the DP24 with the compression on, and then just record that track. A bit of a pain, I know, but it works. However, I decided if I'm going to go through all that, I'm just going to use an external unit.