Issues recording with Firehawk FX

[painkillers]

Greetings,

 

First post on this site, but I wanted to tackle this recent issue that I've been having with my Firehawk FX pedal. I recently got a cable that connected it to my computer, and I've been so excited to finally be able to record my guitar on my computer. It works great, but I have one big issue: I cannot use a metronome or a backing track because if there is any noise present, the guitar in the track will sound horribly de-tuned and downtuned. It works great when there's no other sounds playing in the background. I have audio technica headphones that plug directly into the Firehawk FX pedal and that's pretty much it. I installed the drivers through the Line 6 website. I can provide a sample on how it sounds if necessary.  

[pipelineaudio1]

Sounds like something else (possibly your metronome app) is grabbing the sample rate and changing it. 

 

What DAW are you recording in and if you are on windows, are you using the ASIO drivers?

 

Be aware that the Firehawk drivers are absolutely pathetic both in speed and functionality compared to even the decades old POD drivers, so you will likely have to rely on direct monitoring while playing your guitar to stay sane, and that means turning off input monitoring on the track you are currently recording to (output monitoring should be fine)

[painkillers]

I used Audacity and Reaper and had the same issue with both. I don't use a metronome app, I have a drum track that I record over in audacity. I think that's what DAW is, at least. I'm not familiar with the terminology. I do not know what ASIO drivers are.

[pipelineaudio1]

In REAPER either go to options/preferences/audio/device or click the sample rate indicator on the top right hand corner of the reaper screen

 

For Audio System, chose ASIO

For ASIO Driver, chose the firehawk one

 

Click ASIO COnfiguration and you will see some other options.

 

Don't set the sample rate here (usually). Set the sample rate in Project Settings, but DO set it