Jauk Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Hi guys, I'm currently recording using my hd500x as USB interface. I made a few patches where the dry signal comes panned hard left and the wet signal panned hard right. Everything fine. I need to wet signal to get a feeling of the tone during recording. But the dry signal is quite weak. The most important thing for me is to have a perfectly clean dry signal withe the best audio quality possible. So what exactly does the hd500x do when I turn the path of the dry signal to for example +5db? Or even +12db? What would you suggest how to record? I haven't heard a difference in audio quality between the hd500x and a focusrite studio interface. What are your experiences? Thanks! Julian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 So what exactly does the hd500x do when I turn the path of the dry signal to for example +5db? Or even +12db? What would you suggest how to record? I haven't heard a difference in audio quality between the hd500x and a focusrite studio interface. What are your experiences? Thanks! Julian There's nothing mysterious about the mixer block...+5dB is +5dB. As long as you're not clipping, then all is well. I've never been able to hear a difference between direct USB recording and using an interface either (I have the Focusrite 2i4). With one less round of A/D conversion, the USB connection is at least theoretically the "purer" of the two signals, but in practice I doubt I could tell the difference if you paid me. YMMV... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 .. Everything fine. I need to wet signal to get a feeling of the tone during recording. But the dry signal is quite weak. The most important thing for me is to have a perfectly clean dry signal withe the best audio quality possible..... It's normal for the dry signal to be weak. That's what you want in order to reamp/process it in your DAW. Have you tried doing that yet? If not give it a try and see if you have difficulties with the weakness of the signal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jauk Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 thanks for you quick response. But how does the mixer add these extra +5db? And does it make the signal worse somehow? And of course the dry signal is lower than the amplified one but it seems to be very low at the hd500x... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 For reamping with the HD, I use my own ancient interface (EMU 1820) to record dry (spdif) and wet (stereo LR outs) at the same time....I think my converters are a bit better than the POD HD even all these years later...loL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfsmith0 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 If you're using the mixer block to add gain to your left channel, all it's doing is increasing the left signal in the digital domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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