nesanderson

I have cubase LE elements 12 on a PC with Podfarm 2 plugin. Just been introduced to gain staging by a mate as my mastered tracks have previously sounded a little (but significantly) distorted. To gain stage, I tick the Pre filters/gain/phase from the rack dropdown in the mix console which causes the gain to be present in the pre filter settings box (all good). I have a guitar track with a pod farm insert. For this track I take the fader to zero and then try to get the output track level down to -18 (from what I can gather, standard gain staging). As I drag the gain down, the podfarm insert effect is reduced and by the time the track level is -18 the effect on the guitar has gone. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Neil.

Used to be able to access preset guitar sounds through the 'presets view' on my plugin PodFarm 2. For some reason there don't seem to be any there. I don't often use the podfarm plugin so I've probably forgotten what to do and am overlooking something. I have Cubase 12. Thanks, Neil.