Settings-Mic-Effects

Mic Effects Configuration

Adds reverb and delay to live microphones and mixes the result into your main output alongside the karaoke. Found in the Media Library → Plugins → Audio tab.

This is a wet-only effects rack: QUP adds the reverb and delay tails, while the dry microphone signal continues through your mixer as it always did. Nothing is inserted into the path between your microphone and your speakers, so a problem here can never leave a singer without a microphone.

Before you start

Choose your microphone input under Config → Output, in the Input/Outputs section. Mic Effects processes whatever is selected there.

On macOS, if your microphone and your main output are the same audio interface, QUP opens them as a single full-duplex stream. This happens automatically — Core Audio starves the input otherwise.

Strips

Each strip is one effect chain applied to the microphone.

Add Strip — Creates a strip. With no strips, the microphone passes through untouched.

WET — How much processed signal is added to your output. This is the overall amount of effect the room hears. At zero the strip is inaudible.

REVERB — How much reverb is mixed into the strip.

SIZE — The size of the simulated space. Small values give a tight room; large values give a hall.

DELAY — Echo time. Read the knob as the gap between repeats.

FDBK — Feedback: how many times the echo repeats before dying away. Higher values give longer trails. At the maximum the echo lasts many seconds, which is usually more than you want on a busy night.

BPM sync

Echoes that land on the beat sound deliberate; echoes that don't sound like a fault.

Use BPM to set delay — Locks the delay time to the song's tempo instead of a fixed number of milliseconds. The delay then follows each song automatically.

Tap — Tap along with the music to set the tempo by hand when detection is wrong or unavailable.

BPM — The tempo currently in use.

Note division — Sets the echo to a half, quarter or eighth note. Quarter notes are the safe default; eighths suit faster songs.

QUP can detect BPM offline for songs in your library — see the Genre Tagger's Analyze BPM function — and stores it against the song, so the tempo is already known the next time it comes up.

Presets

Use presets — Enables per-song settings. When a song plays, its saved mic settings load automatically.

Save Preset — Stores the current settings against the song that's playing. A ballad can keep a long hall reverb while the next song snaps back to something tight, with no action from you.

Save — Saves the current configuration.

Practical notes

Reverb and delay make a singer sound better and make speech harder to understand. If you use the same microphone for announcements, keep a low-effect preset to hand.

Start with WET low and raise it until you notice it, then back off slightly. Effects that are obvious in your headphones are usually too loud in the room.