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Subject: Re: [motm] interfacing ?'s

From: Matthew Hiscock <audio@...>
Date: 2006-09-22

I used to use a RME hdsp 9632 card and highly recommend it (just not with a UAD-1 card...) and it had a setting to select the input level between -10dB/+4/"lo gain". I almost always used the "lo gain" setting for my modular, which is a dotcom/motm mix.

Now I use a Focusrite Saffire LE and it's set to "Line" not "Instrument" so the preamps are pretty much bypassed. If you have a similar option, I'd recommend it, though I still do have to take the volume down a touch from full on the VCA, since there's no "lo gain" option.

I have noticed differences between filters, tho. My '420 and '410 are a touch louder than my '490, and so require more attention paid to the input level.

Matthew

On 22-Sep-06, at 12:32 PM, pow333us wrote:

Hi everybody,
how do folks on this group deal with recording their modular? My plan
was this, I as going to come out of the synth into a api type mic pre
with a built in DI. I wanted to go In to the DI and from there through
an OPAMP gainstage, output transformer and into my compy interface (
an MOTU 896 in this case) and it would be great, I'd be recording
squiggles and blips and then sequencing them. I planned to be so
happy. Finally I got all the pieces in place but the synth was too
hot. I was running oscillators into a motm filter and Wow, the output
of the filter was gigantically huge. So I switched to the mic pre
input and padded it down 20 db. Still so huge. Do i really need to get
a DI in between the synth and the pre? I really want some iron between
the synth and the computer. What do y'all do? I'd really like to know
how folks record their modulars so that i can have a variety of
techniques to choose from, unless there is just one way to do it.
Thanks
Paulo







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