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jmcdonough120
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OK, so after doing a bunch of research on audio interfaces, I took the big plunge and bought an Apogee Duet. A used item from a Guitar Center. Took delivery a couple days later, set everything up and was excited to play around making some recordings of my, admittedly, mediocre guitar playing.
Here's the problem; I can plug in my guitar pickup and record and everything is good. I'm monitoring with headphones and it's nice and quiet. Cool. Then I plug in the two small diaphragm condenser microphones, get ready to record and hear what sounds like a windstorm in the headphones. Record the signal and hear the same thing in the playback. (Playback is fine with iTunes and previously recorded Garageband tracks). I plug the mics into my old interface, a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2, and the mics are nice and quiet. Call Apogee Tech Support and, after spending a couple hours on the phone, they guess the Duet's mic preamps are bad and suggest I send it back to Guitar Center for a refund. That works fine (thank you Guitar Center).
Not ready to give up on the Duet yet, I bought a factory refurbished Duet from Amazon. It arrives, I set it up and it has exactly the same problem as the previous unit. Call Apogee Tech Support and they opened a Support Ticket. (I've not heard back from them yet).
So, I either have something wrong in my setup or there's a problem with Duets that I didn't foresee.
Anyone had similar issues or a suggestion for what I might be doing wrong?
Here's the problem; I can plug in my guitar pickup and record and everything is good. I'm monitoring with headphones and it's nice and quiet. Cool. Then I plug in the two small diaphragm condenser microphones, get ready to record and hear what sounds like a windstorm in the headphones. Record the signal and hear the same thing in the playback. (Playback is fine with iTunes and previously recorded Garageband tracks). I plug the mics into my old interface, a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2, and the mics are nice and quiet. Call Apogee Tech Support and, after spending a couple hours on the phone, they guess the Duet's mic preamps are bad and suggest I send it back to Guitar Center for a refund. That works fine (thank you Guitar Center).
Not ready to give up on the Duet yet, I bought a factory refurbished Duet from Amazon. It arrives, I set it up and it has exactly the same problem as the previous unit. Call Apogee Tech Support and they opened a Support Ticket. (I've not heard back from them yet).
So, I either have something wrong in my setup or there's a problem with Duets that I didn't foresee.
Anyone had similar issues or a suggestion for what I might be doing wrong?