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if they are two guitars they are very similar so they are either tightly recorded double tracked guitars or stereo recorded guitars in which case SOME PHASE cancellation should occur by subtracting the L and R channel, yet this is NOT the case, please listen to the side channel in the recording...

What I am thinking is, 1) If you have the same guitar track in both L & R speakers (panned in the middle that is) then by listening to the "sides" of the stereo recording you would be left with nothing 2) If you have a stereo recording (whether you double tracked or multi mike recorded the...

Have you ever double tracked an acoustic guitar and listened to the "side" channel? The side channel is the difference between the L & R channels so what you would be left with is a very small uncorrelated signal. however, if you listen to the "side" channel on the track I uploaded you can hear...

What does it mean if an element in a mix is in the "side" AND "mid" channels I am learning about panning and checking a mix trying to understand the panning being used in a particular song. The Verse of the song has a guitar that appears to be almost completely right panned with only a bit of...

That makes sense!

That makes sense!

Like this?

I am not making this up. FOCUSRITE told me that unity gain is 2 or 3 o clock. They told me this to give me an idea of how I could use outboard preamps without further gain or attenuation from the front knobs on the Clarett unit. You are right, I am confused, just not about that.

But the guy from Focusrite said that 2 or 3 o clock is unity gain, so what is 1 o clock? That means the signal is being attenuated! Am I wrong? Why do you need a schematic for that? After geting some emails back and forth from Focusrite (god they take forever to reply) it turns out that the...

I just found a reply from a tech person at focusrite when I was asking about this interface 2 years ago. This is what he says about the front variable inputs: If you go in to a line level input on one of the combi inputs just set the gain knob to between 2 and 3 as this should be at unity. so...

Exactly! this is what the guy in the review I posted was talking about. It should work with +18dbu.

Exactly, which is why I can't understand why the meters can't be set so that I can still use the back fixed inputs! the meter calibration allows for up to 16dbu = 0dbfs, this is even lower than +18dbu. Can you clarify this for me please?

ISA preamps are clean but even so, wouldn't using them with less than ideal gain not give you the best results?

Are you sure that this is with the gain all the way down? I remember a sales person telling me that "unity gain" on the front line inputs is actually with the knob turned up a bit. Not sure if this is the same thing or not but from what I remember him saying, wouldn't going below unity gain...

THank you for the conversion chart but posting it doesn't really answer the questions here. On the focusrite ISA 2, you can choose 16dbu = 0dbfs up to +24dbu = 0dbfs so if Im turn this knob all the way anti clockwise I am telling the ISA 2 that I want 0dbfs on the meter to be the same as +16dbu...

Thanks a lot for your reply. Very much what I was hoping to find :) When I purchased the Clarett 4, I did so based on the fact that there were line inputs for accepting signals coming from external preamps. I understood that it was better that the signal pass through a line input without...

I have the focusrite ISA 2 preamp going into a line input on the Clarett 4. On the front panel of the ISA there is metering in dbfs. The problem is that this meter shows too low of a signal compared to what I see in my DAW. There is a meter calibration knob at the back which lets you calibrate...

So what is the difference really? If the source is loud why not just turn down the gain? If you want the saturation your preamp gives you maybe I can understand that but if you don't have a colored preamp, what is the point of the pad switch on a microphone?

okay but I appreciate that advice but I still would like to learn to do it even though you don't think it is a good idea to compress while tracking

yeah , that is what I was thinking which is why I thought the best way may be to compress it as one signal. Of course, that wouldn't work if my idea was to then pan the two tracks differently but if my intended use was one mono track....