emmebbi Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Hi, I bought a Firehawk some days ago just to do some studio recordings without my amp and my live set-up, because I read many good reviews about this pedalboard. Infact I appreciated most of the clean effects of the Firehawk (except the fact that the most of them are mono, not stereo), anyway I did some good clean/crunch/dist presets that seemed to play very well into some professional headphones. But when into the recording studio, some distortions (stompboxes and amps simulations) sounded really strange, others really unreal and not usable!!! I was using some clean amps simulation with some distortion stomp boxes, and the pedalboard was connected through stereo xlr outputs direct to recording... How is it possible?? Did someone had similar problems? Sometime I think that probably all these simulations added together (amp + stompboxes) may change so much the final sound of the guitar that it finish to become unreal and synthetic... and unplayble.. What's your experience... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbeddall Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 All my recordings sound the same in headphones as they do through my 5 inch studio monitors after recording I create the patches using headphones as it's usually late at night that I do that I record through the USB using the firehawk as the audio interface Actually now you got me thinking about it I remember recording through the xlr outs into my bass players audio interface (omega one I think) and it sounded bad, I put it down to the audio getting converted back and forth from digital to analogue as it passed through the 2 devices , though I'm no expert and could be wrong on that one, I never pursued a remedy because swapping the firehawk and the omega as audio interfaces was so easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 When recording using the analog outputs to another audio interface, make sure your Firehawk Ouptut mode is set to Line mode. This ensures the output level is Studio/Direct, appropriate for a mixer, not instruments level appropriate for an external amp. (see manual page13) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmebbi Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 Hi mcbeddall, thanks, maybe double convertion, I'll try the usb out.. Hi silverhead, yes, output was already correctly set as line, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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