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Re: [motm] interfacing ?'s

2006-09-22 by Stephen Drake

Why a mike pre? Nothing mike like in these boxes.

I run mine straight into a mackie 1202vlz, not the mike inputs, just
the regular line inputs. From there into an m-audio audiophile usb,
then into the mac and cubase. No problems.

On 9/22/06, pow333us <fluxivity@...> 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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