Hi,
I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm trying to record some guitars for our band's EP and I've borrowed a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. There are two issues with it.
1. Even with the gain on minimum the input level is too high. The chain is guitar (PRS, passive humbuckers) direct into 2i2, usb to PC. Now the 2i2 has halos around the gain pots, and goes green/orange/red according to the input. On humbuckers with gain at zero, when strumming the halo goes red......it's ok if I coil tap, and if I change the input selection from 'instrument' to 'line' then I have to lift the gain to about 11 o' clock to have enough signal......but the guitar sounds flat and horrible using the 'line' setting.
A friend who helped me had a large complicated audio interface (I can check what it was) - he also had to turn the gain way down when using the instrument setting, but he could get the capture level of the guitar within the appropriate limits.....which I couldn't on the 2i2.
2. Monitoring. I use direct monitor.......but it's hard to get the guitar being recorded loud enough against the guide track I'm recording against. Particularly considering my comments above, that I seem to have a really hot signal. I can turn the volume of the guide track down in the DAW but it's not ideal. And then when I playback, the volume of my guitar track is really very loud against the backing track.....so it seems odd that I can't monitor at the same level that it is being captured....
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy
I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm trying to record some guitars for our band's EP and I've borrowed a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. There are two issues with it.
1. Even with the gain on minimum the input level is too high. The chain is guitar (PRS, passive humbuckers) direct into 2i2, usb to PC. Now the 2i2 has halos around the gain pots, and goes green/orange/red according to the input. On humbuckers with gain at zero, when strumming the halo goes red......it's ok if I coil tap, and if I change the input selection from 'instrument' to 'line' then I have to lift the gain to about 11 o' clock to have enough signal......but the guitar sounds flat and horrible using the 'line' setting.
A friend who helped me had a large complicated audio interface (I can check what it was) - he also had to turn the gain way down when using the instrument setting, but he could get the capture level of the guitar within the appropriate limits.....which I couldn't on the 2i2.
2. Monitoring. I use direct monitor.......but it's hard to get the guitar being recorded loud enough against the guide track I'm recording against. Particularly considering my comments above, that I seem to have a really hot signal. I can turn the volume of the guide track down in the DAW but it's not ideal. And then when I playback, the volume of my guitar track is really very loud against the backing track.....so it seems odd that I can't monitor at the same level that it is being captured....
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy