Amp and Interface problems.

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My Peavey Vypyer has an 1/8 inch headphone/record out. My focusrite saffire 6 has a 1/4 inch instrument hi-z input in. I have an 1/8 aux and a 1/8 to 1/4 adaptor. I plug the amp into the interface. I get no sound. No distortion, no volume overload, just silence. I know for a fact the interface works, the headphone out jack works, and the guitar straight into the interface works.

My friend suggested that a 1/8 cable can't handle the signal from the amp. But my earphones work just fine. Perhaps the interface is incompatible with a 1/8 inch aux? He said a 1/4 inch cable and a 1/4 to 1/8 adaptor would fix the problem, essentially reversing the previous method of connection.

As i said before, everything works fine separate, terrific even, so i'm 99% sure it's not a technical issue.
That being said here's my setup
Lenovo G460 i5-430m 2.27g 4gigs ddr3
Focusrite saffire 6 usb
Peavey vypyr 15

I've tried this on both fl studio 9 and reaper. Same result

I love the vypyr. I REALLY love the saffire 6. And I can't get them to work together. Help please?
 
I assume that you had the volume knob on the amp turned up? :D

Does the cabinet speaker mute when you connect the Vypyr and the focusrite?

Try switching the input to line level, and disengaging pad.

You'd only need the high impedance input for directly connecting an instrument pick-up (eg guitar or bass). I'm wondering if the headphone/record output on the Vypyr is somehow being confused by the high impedence input, since it would be most likely sensing for a low-ish impedence connection.

On the face of it, I can't see why the adapter would make a difference, though I suppose you should rule out a faulty adapter. One would assume that the adapter just provides directly correspond connections between tip and sleeve.

Anyway, just a few thoughts. I don't own either bits of equipment so I'm just going by downloaded product manuals.

Paul
 
You probably need an adapter to go from 1/8" stereo to 1/8" mono, then the 1/8 to 1/4. Signal is only on one of the outputs, and that is not going through the 1/8-to-1/4.
 
My adapter is stereo, and i guess the signal coming from the amp is stereo. Assuming the interface only takes mono inputs, i can see how a stereo to mono adapter would fix the problem. I'm still fairly new to recording, but I always assumed an interface could take stereo inputs? Am i just completely wrong?
 
I doubt that the amp output is stereo but I'm not sure how it would feed headphone L/R. Interface inputs are always mono. For stereo you use two. Just get a mono adapter.


lou
 
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