Joemeek > spdif out > RME Fireface 400 - noob question

[charliehorse]

Hi all,

Had a flood recently which took out all my home studio gear...am consolidating a lot of stuff and replacing with better quality gear.

Am gonna get the RME fireface 400 and am thinking about the Joemeek TwinQ for the pre.

I play solo acoustic guitar and the plan is to record 3 simultaneous mono tracks into Cubase 2x mic (using the Joemeek) and 1 direct in on the FF (from the guitars onboard piezo/preamp)

I feel a bit stupid asking this, but I've never used SPDIF before and am wondering what sort of signal will be going from the Joemeek into the fireface (as far as channels are concerned) ie will I get 2 mono tracks?

Cheers,
Greg

 

[RAK]

Hi all,

Had a flood recently which took out all my home studio gear...am consolidating a lot of stuff and replacing with better quality gear.

Am gonna get the RME fireface 400 and am thinking about the Joemeek TwinQ for the pre.

I play solo acoustic guitar and the plan is to record 3 simultaneous mono tracks into Cubase 2x mic (using the Joemeek) and 1 direct in on the FF (from the guitars onboard piezo/preamp)

I feel a bit stupid asking this, but I've never used SPDIF before and am wondering what sort of signal will be going from the Joemeek into the fireface (as far as channels are concerned) ie will I get 2 mono tracks?

Cheers,
Greg

S/PDif is a 2 channel digital transfer protocol, so I'm assuming channels 1&2 of the Joe Meek are automatically routed out the S/PDif. Connect that to the S/PDif In on your FF and then configure the routing in Cubase and you should be all set. I haven't used Cubase, but I would imagine you have the option to select S/PDif 1 on a seperate track from S/PDif 2 if you want. If not, you'll have to create a stereo track who's inputs are S/PDif 1&2 and you'll have a little less control over those two channels than if they were on individual tracks.

 

[charliehorse]

Thx for the info Jummy