If it is any consolation to you, I actually make walking around money as a hired gun audio guy and I've seen my way around plenty of mixing applications for all kinds of live sound and with home recording audio interfaces. After the 3rd night of the same frustration, I was done. Wasted another bunch of time trying to get it to work all the while the muse is off on a smoke-break. Never got that to work reliably meaning - that monitor section is quite complicated and I thought I had saved a working setup, only to come back the next night and no-can-do. Very simply, record one or two channels at a time, while monitoring said signal through phones. I wasted probably 3 evenings of 2-3 hours each trying to make that Saffire Pro 24 (we have the 'DSP' version) work for my very simple setup at home and I failed. In my opinion, the mixer application that comes with the Saffire Pro is one of the most difficult to use in the industry.īecause of my employment, I had access to one of these free of charge for as long as I wanted to use it, when my firewire laptop was still breathing. I know my way around lots of different audio/midi interfaces. If anyone is even vaguely familiar with this, I would appreciate your help. Lastly, I have read the Focusrite manual over and over, but just don't get this. I can tell from the mixer lights that audio is being picked up, but I can't hear it, doggoneit, and it's making me nuts!! The BIAB audio driver is set to Focusrite. I am running a cable from the mic into its power box and then another cable out of the power box into the audio interface (left channel). I am using a Sterling ST69 condenser mic that is self-powered. What I can't hear is my voice through the headphones as I record. As a test, I laid down a vocal track that I hear during playback through the headphones. I can hear the track (RealTrack) through the headphones. While I think I'm going to like it, there is some weird with headphone connection. NOT any longer, with USB4 and Thunderbolt coming as standard to all PCs the future looks more cheerful.I recently switched my Presonus Audio Interface with with Focusrite Saffire Pro 24. anyone wants some looms?īut best of all, Firewire which had appeared to be dying a slow and painful death. Think before you buy, the idiot I am, bought far too many looms that were far too long and looked a complete mess, being sorted. Great thing about using the patch is most of the static routing cables are hid at the back, I am still currently in the process of making up my custom SHORTER patch loom leads before I stuff it all in a cabinet. Yes this means you might have a lot of cables, buy one 5 mtr loom and cut it down to size then buy yourself some extra XLR and Jack plugs solder them and you get all the cables you will need for a reasonable cost. With the DI Pro you can route all your guitar takes, straight raw clean from DI Box, DI from amp, mics from cabs, you can take up to 8 different separate recordings from each take. I also use the XLR for outputs through to stage monitors/amps and I use jacks on the stage box for the guitar. I use a snake stage box and the XLR mic inputs go straight into the line splitter ( MS8000) and the instruments go into the DI Pro 8000 and through a Samson S-Patch into my Liquid 56 - unlimited flexibility. All down to your imagination and desires. Using a DIPro 8000 and all 8 XLR inputs can take instruments as mics (balanced) add a line splitter and S-Patch and you can have great fun over budding or taking multiple recordings per take. And thats as standard without any hardware or software to boost things further and beyond. You get 2 headphone out, 8 mic pre amps two of which have (Liquid) effects, you get two dedicated instrument inputs, it offers Phanton HPF and phase on all 8 inputs. who hasn't?Īccepted Focusrite have not updated the mix control to the later GUI version but give it time you realise it works perfectly well, if a little over complicated. Run VOicemeeter or any other virtual cabling software and you can further increase your outputs I have mine going through a 7.1 amp for fun and my studio monitors for mastering and the onboard outputs go to amps and cabs so yip a fair few speakers kicking about this place. Add a AD/DA converter and you are starting to get serious. With 16 inputs (8 XLR and 8 TRS) 8 outputs (including 7.1 or just split the instruments into separate output channels)) this unit is a beast comparing it to what you would get for your money new. These might appear to some as old almost an obsolete audio interface but you would be fooling yourself.
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