Recording Dry Signal With Hd Pro (yes, Again...)

[rvs0002]

I know this has been covered before (many times) as I've been reading for days about sending the dry out to my separate interface (in my case a Presonus 1818VSL) along with the line outs (or using S/PDIF) to record both the wet and dry signals, but in many of these posts they say you can monitor the wet signal through the POD. This is what throws me.

 

If i have to send my outs to the 1818VSL. won't I have to monitor through it also? If I listen via the POD, I won't hear all the other parts (drums, bass, etc).

 

Am I missing something here? I would love to be able to monitor through the pod while I record both wet and dry signals, but at this point I don't think it is possible. 

 

Can someone enlighten me further if they have found a solution to this?

 

Thanks 6'ers!

 

John

[TheRealZap]

i use a tascam us1800 and i do both (dry via spdif)

i monitor via the tascam, by simply muting the dry track, if you aren't doing any real time processing this shouldn't be a big deal for most machines.

[rvs0002]

Thanks Zap.

 

No, it's not a big deal, I've been monitoring though the 1818 for a long time, but several of the posts I read indicated some were monitoring via the POD even though they were recording with another interface so I thought I must be missing something and just wanted to know how they were doing it. Always like to learn new things!

 

EDIT: Looks like in some circumstances you can use two interfaces at once, which I never knew. This is probably how it is done.

[TheRealZap]

Using 2 interfaces is asking for trouble... it can be done... but you lose some protections built into the hardware and specifications. mainly you have multiple hardware clocks timing things.

I've done it, when i had lesser interfaces years back and no money for anything better. the project i was doing at the time was discretely dumping my old 4 track cassettes into a DAW.

never did get things to line up exactly right... wasn't exactly a top tier project anyway... but i'd not do it for anything serious for sure.