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30th November 2007
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| Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2005 Location: Beijing, China
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Thread Starter | Tracking Synths: Digital vs Pre-amp
I have heard that the big boys track all synths and mpcs through a DI or a preamp with DI. Is this better than tracking straight in through lightpipe or spdif? what would you choose and why?
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30th November 2007
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Part of the sound you hear when you play your hardware synths is their DA converters, it would be a shame to lose that quality by taking a digital out(If available) into your DAW and make them sound like SoftSynths ..... | |
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30th November 2007
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yeah Rezz is right, i track everything through my sebatron pre DI, it just gives it a so much character. I would suggest a pre with DI, or good DI.
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30th November 2007
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what if your DI or pre wasnt super high end? i have a mixwiz 16 and a joemeek VC6Q... that is why i wanna upgrade my signal path.
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30th November 2007
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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Better yet, send them through a guitar or bass amp and mic them!
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30th November 2007
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| Gear Head  Joined: Oct 2007 Location: Sacramento
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If you like the sound you got from the MPC... go straight to your digital (lightpipe or spdif..) Peace Thierry |
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30th November 2007
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i have never used my mpc's digital out before... always went straight through the converters. vsti all digital... i am going to start going the analog route now.
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30th November 2007
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| Gear maniac Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Middletown, Oh
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Just an FYI, the benefit of tracking through pre's and DI's may take more time than what's necessary for a given project. There are tons of ways to get that linear & non-linear distortion that our ears like from the analog with plugins. For speed just render the fx to the wave file, and mix from that state. If it makes one feel correct to pre amp or DI, then do so. Not always necessary esp due to the time it takes, and one's delivery method of the song. |
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