digideus

Hi all. heres something I came up against recently. I was recording guitar using some LePou plugins. What I found was that because my guitars tend to have active pickups, the signal is quite hot. I found that just the clean signal was too loud and clipping. The only bit of advice I found to resolve this was to use the guitar volume knob, but for any high gain sounds, you will know as well as I do that you dont WANT to turn it down. The solution is to change the input gain of the interface, but there isnt an input gain on the instrument input of the UX2 In Reaper, you can change the volume, but this doesnt effect the input volume... However, Reaper does have a "Track Input FX Chain" which works before the signal reaches the track, so you can... sort of... change the input gain. I use an instance of Pod Farm with an empty patch and adjust the input gain via the "input" knob at the top of the pod farm plugin. Problem solved. its a work around, but it seems to work OK. you can remove the plugin after recording if you want to save memory, but remember that this is the input chain, not the post fx chain that normally displays (where you will have your plugins) Hope this helps someone

Late to the party, but this may be of some help to anyone who has this problem in Reaper. If you guitar signal is low/high, you can use the Pod farm plugin to adjust it, but the track display in Reaper shows you the FX you are using post-input, so adjusting the volume will have no effect on the input gain. Luckily, when using Reaper, there is a "Track Input FX gain" for each track. To access it, arm the track you are recording onto, then right click on the meter section of the track display and "Track Input FX Gain" is the option at the bottom of the pop up menu. I simply put an instance of Pod farm on this with a blank patch, and that lets me adjust the input level accordingly via the "input" knob at the top of the plugin Hope this helpse someone