How do I get the most out of my Delta 1010?

[Superhuman]

I record DI guitar through a fairly hefty rig straight into my Delta 1010 via a Mackie HUI. I can't help feeling that I could tweak the settings to make better use out of the Delta but I am not up on technical jargon, just plug, play, record and mix in Cubase SX. Most of the guitar parts I record sound very bassy, even though the input is not that bassy at all - they sound just as bassy through a set of Tannoy reveals and Sennheiser HD 25-1 headphones (after having gone through the Delta). BUT, if I hook the monitors or headphones direct to the rig, everything sounds brighter, like it was originally intended.

For example, the Bass Management or Codec Sample Rate settings - any tips for recording and mixing heavy DI guitars? Any other tips would be great, the manual assumes you are a sound engineer and doesnt give much of an introduction to any of the terminology or basic principals.

[tmix]

Most rigs are biased to be brightat the preamp out so they sound at least somewhat bright when played through 12 inch (or a bunch) speakers. The output you are coming out of your rig may be a pre EQ or pre effects type send.

I use a double Delta 1010 rig so I am pretty familiar with them. There are not any real adjustments that would affect the tone of things, or even the volume of things being recorded. (unless your sampling rate , etc is screwed up .. then things would pop,spit and playback at the wrong pitch)

The delta is a pretty straight forward interface with some mixing and routing capabilities for monitoring and playback. The tone differences I dont THINK are due to the interface.

[Minion]

I would suggest that instead of Going DI that you Mic your Guitar Cab and record that way as You do get a Much better sound ..Well at least in my experience, But I guess it also depends on the Type of Sound you are recording.....

For Heavy and Distorted Guitar Micing the Guitar Cab sounds Better than going DI (Assumeing that you have a Good Mic and a Pre amp) but I can see for Quieter and Cleaner guitar that DI might give a better sound .....

Either way it is something to try.....

Recording at a Higher Sample rate will give you slightly better sound quality but it will not change the tone or the way the guitar sounds in a way that is dramitic....
You might also try recording your guitar Clean and add VTS and DX Plugins to add the effects, You might find that you get an acceptable sound that way....


Good luck

[buryher17]

idk i dissagree with one part of the guy above me said. i had a shitty like $7 sound card and when i upgraded ot the m-audio delta 1010 the tone was just so much better and clearer. possibly/obviously because of how shitty my card was

but yea i also agree, other than like noise and w/e and lakc of losing tone, it wont do much to it.

the one thing i perosnally love about it is i can hook up a keyboard [through the midi], my mixer [through the 2 xlr] and my monitors [through all the RCA] and still have mroe room for more

thats the one good thing about the 1010. but sound itself, isnt gona change unless it has to do with noise and losing your tone going from the consol to the pc.

[OhSh1rt]

I'm using a 66, it's basicaly the same thing but I guess to get the most out of it, I pump the rate as high as I can and the buffer as low as I can, this will let you get the lowest (it claims 0ms right now) latency out of your card. Thoes few milliseconds can mean the diffrence between a good recording and a useless recording. Of course raise your buffer once you get your plugins in.


-jeffrey