Hi everyone,
It's been quite a few years since I've been messing around with home studio gear, but I want to get going again with a very mobile setup. For that purpose I have my laptop, of course, plus an RME Babyface and a couple of compact Genelec 6010a-speakers. I can carry this setup on my bike, and I can work at home without taking up too many square meters.
I have this slightly stupid question: I just exactly got the XLR-to-RCA cables needed to connect the Genelecs to the Babyface. I ran a quick test of the sound over YouTube (haven't installed any tracking software yet), but the sound that comes out of the Genelecs is reasonably quieter than the volume my iPhone is capable of producing. When cranking up the sound to the max in the RME mixer, I get this hideous digital distortion.
I thought the point of having active speakers like the Genelecs was that I didn't need an amplifier, and I had hoped to be able to adjust the level on the big knob on the Babyface. But have I missed something? Do I really need a pre-amp in order to fire those Genelecs up, or are the software settings maybe wrong in the RME mixer?
Cheers,
Christian
It's been quite a few years since I've been messing around with home studio gear, but I want to get going again with a very mobile setup. For that purpose I have my laptop, of course, plus an RME Babyface and a couple of compact Genelec 6010a-speakers. I can carry this setup on my bike, and I can work at home without taking up too many square meters.
I have this slightly stupid question: I just exactly got the XLR-to-RCA cables needed to connect the Genelecs to the Babyface. I ran a quick test of the sound over YouTube (haven't installed any tracking software yet), but the sound that comes out of the Genelecs is reasonably quieter than the volume my iPhone is capable of producing. When cranking up the sound to the max in the RME mixer, I get this hideous digital distortion.
I thought the point of having active speakers like the Genelecs was that I didn't need an amplifier, and I had hoped to be able to adjust the level on the big knob on the Babyface. But have I missed something? Do I really need a pre-amp in order to fire those Genelecs up, or are the software settings maybe wrong in the RME mixer?
Cheers,
Christian