Antraeus

OK. I'll just have to experiment and find out what works best for me. It kinds of helps being poor sometimes as it limits one's choices and you just use the best combo you end up with and accept it for what it is. So I'm going to avoid spending money I don't have and see what I end up with here. Thanks for the info. :-)

Btw a friend of mine (who has more money than me!) has purchased a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 which comes with Ableton Lite Live and I can get one cheaper on ebay. Tempted to splash out but it would set me back a bit financially. It's a good piece of kit though apparently. He bought that plus a condenser mic. But he's not using it for guitar whereas Pod Farm seems ideal for that side of things.

Hey Triryche are you still there? Right, I've finally got my other laptop working and got rid of that interferernce and intermittence! Yahay! For some reason it's taken several attempts to get the UX1 working fully on that machine but now we have lift off! As you were saying, the only problem with the UX1 is no phantom power. Can't really afford a condenser mic so will just have to be old-fashioned. After all dynamic mics were good enough in the past. I've bought a mic stand and have a pop filter. Next up is choosing which recording software to use. I can get Cakewalk as a standalone but I'm looking at some other audio interfaces on ebay. One is a Roland UA-33 Tricapture. One comes with an old version of Cubase and others either come with Cakewalk or Ableton Live Lite. I've read that Ableton is nice and simple but limited and best for live stuff so perhaps Cakewalk is the one to get. I am assuming of course that it beats Reaper. Judging from what I've read it's really a toss between these two. Now that I have the UX1 working I'm thinking maybe just get Cakewalk and leave it at that. I don't suppose those other audio interfaces will work with Pod Farm, or will they? I'm kind of confused about the relationship between Gearbox and Pod Farm as well if you have any advice about how they work in conjunction. Perhaps I should get a different interface and use Pod Farm with that and then save for a condenser mic for later recordings? Anyway, it looks like I have my hands full especially with checking out all the effects. My songs go back 30 years so the sounds vary. It's mega important to me to do this and get it right. I'm leaving the 4-track for now. Can experiment with that later and see what the difference is. ;-)

Ops! OK sorry about that. My mate came round and said I was trying to do it back-to-front. So I have now use the UX1 via a powered hub and it made no difference. Same interference. It's pretty nasty! He said it could be the memory in the netbook isn't enough to support such an endavour so I will try using PodFarm on my laptop. Will try to install it on this in the next couple of days. Cheers.

Sure, this is the one: Dynamode USB2.0 Hub

Well I have bought a powered USB hub and now can't figure out what to do with it! What goes where? I can't see how to use it. The UX1 plugs directly into the USB socket in the laptop. If I plug it into the USB hub that's doing nothing! I can't plug the UX1 into the USB hub because the socket is a different shape in the back of the UX1, not USB. Please tell me what you meant! Haha. :rolleyes:

Oh I see! Haha. It’s taken me a couple of days to realise what you mean. Yeah yeah I have the latest Line6 Monkey and the update ticks are all there. OK well I’ll look on ebay and try to get a cheap powered USB hub to see if that helps. Thanks for the tip! I always keep the netbook plugged in. I haven’t started using the 4-track yet. I need to print out the manual first. Basically, all this is happening because two people offered to record my songs and both let me down! And they use DAWs. I did do a couple of recordings. One issue is that the sound doesn’t seem as deep and another is that the individual notes on my semi-acoustic guitar are not clear. Yeah the storage on the memory card for the 4-track leaves a lot to be desired for sure. Cheers.

I assume you mean the upright green lines that appear at the top left and right when registering sound thru the mic. What do they have to do with monkeys? Yeah they are working. OK, I don't have access to a PC. I have a normal laptop. I could install Podfarm on it and have another go over the weekend I guess, Hopefully from a flash drive. I'll let you know how that goes. Not really sure what a powered USB hub is. I have a 4 port hub that I use but only to provide extra USB sockets. I don't have anymore money to spend! lol. Right, well sounds like Reaper will be good. I can always pay if ever I have the cash. One thing I am mindful of however is my observation that acoustic guitar/vocals (as opposed to synth/house etc) sounds better (authentic rather than plastic) through a 4-track than directly on a computer. Is that a popular notion? The basic Mixcraft program would cost the same as Reaper, if not more. However, I'm glad you mentioned it because there is an older version on ebay that's going cheap. It only goes up to XP but that's the OS on my netbook. Then again if it's proved that the netbook has USB issues in terms of quality sound then that would be no good. Thanks for your advice. This is really frustrating!

Black-faced. Yes youtube et al works fine. No sound probs. The netbook I am using is fairly new. I have zero experience with DAWs. My songs were written before they existed (I had a decade off). I thought Reaper was just free! It is what I was going to use but then I got a s/h 4-track and was hoping to use it in conjunction with Podfarm. It would be impossible to record with this disturbance going on though even if the sound came out alright in recording. I doubt it would though. Probaby best just to forget the UX1 if you have not heard of this sort of issue being raised by people.

No, 'fraid not. Thanks anyway. The only way I'd have of recording it would be with my old cell phone. And the sound from the UX1 is only available through headphones. But what might cause interference, crackling, etc. The UX1 is secondhand. Could it have been dropped and something damaged inside even though it still works? It seems a fairly simple set up so I surely there aren't many things that could have this kind of effect?

Ah right! Thanks. OK found the mixer view and you were right. I needed to select 'mic' from a drop down menu. The problem now is that the mic sound is more disturbed and intermittent than the guitar was when I tried that! :unsure:

No I use the cable in the amp and it's fine. I can't find anywhere in Podfarm to select a type of input. Nor in Gearbox. I couldn't afford a condenser mic. :rolleyes:

This is my first enquiry and I thought this might be the best place to put it. I have acquired a UX1 device and I have Podfarm 2.5 Platinum. It's all set up and the sound registers on the signal meters. However, the guitar sound keeps cuttng out intermittently (momentarily but frequently) and there is no sound coming from the microphone at all. I dragged a friend who is more familiar with this kind of thing over and, after trying various things, he was flumoxed as well. Anybody got any idea what it could be? Thanks in advance.