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Have a Behringer FCA1616, HD500x POD, Rode condenser mic and various guitars and Roland Edrums... using Audacity on PC to record multi track stuff Is there a good way to interconnect the HD500x and the FCA device to then have both guitar 1/4 cable connected to the FCA and the Rode mic in port 2 on the FCA... have the signal then go to the HD500x to apply whatever amps/effects I need, then, back into PC Via USB to record??? Do I take the signal from an 1/4 output port on back of the FCA into a 1/4 input on the HD, then have the HD connect USB to PC.. Currently, am using the HD solely for both instruments and Shure mic input, out USB into PC Audacity and that's working just fine. Course, need the FCA to use phantom power for the Rode... I guess I could just use the HD for instruments, and then use the FCA to record vocals... but that seems inefficient Just curious if there is a way to have any 1/4 instrument input Port 1 and the condenser mic Port 1 run thru the FCA. then be able to use the HD to apply effects on each before signal input to PC?? Am recording individual tracks, not all at once, ie.. instrument tracks one at a time and vocals one at a time as needed, not all at once. Everything is then mixed down in Audacity later. Have XLR and high quality 1/4 stereo cables. Thanks

Have Behringer FCA1616 audio interface, HD500x POD, Rode condenser mic and various guitars and Roland Edrums... using Audacity on PC to record multi track stuff Is there a good way to interconnect the HD500x and the FCA device to then have both guitar 1/4 cable connected to the FCA and the Rode mic in port 2 on the FCA... have the signal then go to the HD500x to apply whatever amps/effects I need, then, back into PC Via USB to record??? Do I take the signal from an 1/4 output port on back of the FCA into a 1/4 input on the HD, then have the HD connect USB to PC.. Currently, am using the HD solely for both instruments and Shure mic input, out USB into PC Audacity and that's working just fine. Course, need the FCA to use phantom power for the Rode... I guess I could just use the HD for instruments, and then use the FCA to record vocals... but that seems inefficient Just curious if there is a way to have any 1/4 instrument input Port 1 and the condenser mic Port 1 run thru the FCA. then be able to use the HD to apply effects on each before signal input to PC?? Am recording individual tracks, not all at once, ie.. instrument tracks one at a time and vocals one at a time as needed, not all at once. Everything is then mixed down in Audacity later. Have XLR and high quality 1/4 stereo cables. Thanks

Well....thanks everyone for the earnest help and responses.... I'm embarrassed to admit that it was USER error all along.... Audacity was recording everything just fine....from the beginning... What was the actual issue and what was throwing me off...was the Track Wave signal line seemed flat when it was really just displaying differently, a very very skinny line....as soon as I switched the Track display to (db) choice...well...boy howdy, suddenly I was seeing what I expected....an up/down wave pattern I could edit... The playback issue turned out to be one of volume setting and setting the interface to Direct Sound...playback plays just fine through computer speakers.... Again.....thanks all for the timely responses Marc

Please....no stupid answers...just my stupid questions.... Yes...the track is armed....set input as both Line6 device or ASIO device....as with Audacity....start recording....recording levels show input of sounds...the actually recording WAVE signal is flat....nothing is recorded

Sorry...hit wrong key and posted reply too soon 2. Have installed Reaper....interface alien at this point...did go into options and set recording device as ASIO..Interesting enough...same issue....shows the input meter responding ...but nothing show as recording.... 3. Are there some specific settings I need in Reaper to get the HD500 to record via USB correctly...... Am at sea....Control panel Sound shows the recording device as a Digital Device Line 6....Playback show only speaker choice...no Line 6 device...probably not unusual...

Thanks again for the quick responses....the confusion is that other folks say they record using their Line 6 device to the free downloaded version of Audacity... 1. Is there an ASIO compiled version for download somewhere that works?? 2.

Am confounded...probably pretty dense, too Again.....set Audacity to record using the Line6 device in the preferences drop down choices....ASIO choice not available Have HD500 connected to computer via USB.....guitar cabled into "guitar in", headphones plugged in.... Start record and strum guitar....hear fine in phones....record meter at top of Audacity interface responds with guitar...red meter levels move in sync and show receiving input... yet the track "wave" shows nothing.....flat lines....nothing is actually recording Is the USB connection the issue???? Audacity can't "translate" the input correctly????...do I need to go from HD500 1/4" "line out" to the input of computer sound card and not use USB??? Thanks for the responses....

Thanks for the responses.... After attaching USB...POD shows up as sound device....have gone into control panel and set recording device default to the Line 6 device Am using most current version of Audacity and most current drivers for HD500 Are the ASIO drivers native to the HD or is this a 3rd party download and install??? As stated...when hit record....Audacity responds by showing the signal coming in the "mic" meter at top show the recording being received.... However, nothing gets recorded....

Latest version of Audacity, Windows 7/64bit..latest updates from Line 6 Monkey.....connected via USB...successful....Line6 shows as sound card... Open Audacity...edit/preferences...select Line 6 as input....when hit record and play guitar, hear thru headphones....Audacity shows the "mic" inputs as registering input sounds (the level meter moves)...but the "wave" recording time line is flat and nothing records.... Can record from other computer using Audacity connected via USB from a JamHub just fine... Hep Me.... thanks marc maze

Any way to change the HD 500 foot switches so that they are reversed, in other words....the top 4 switches, which are now used for efftects, would be used to change patches, and the bottom row of switches would be used for effects within the patch I seem to have an issue when playing live, that when I go to change an effect during a song, of missing the top row and accidently hitting the bottom row, thereby messing up the patch....BTW, I wear a size 8 so I don't have big feet... It would seem to be easier to have the effects at the lower level...for me thanks marc maze