Elektron Musical Instruments

I've recorded with the fireface only (line level), with the Demeter into to fireface, and also out of the Demeter into the Fireface at mic level. I've tried -10 +4 and low level. None of it will give me a sound without a lot of noise. The best setting coming out of the Demeter and into the fireface is at low level (mic level). I will then boost the gain to about 50% on the fireface. That's as far as I can go without getting noise from the fireface itself. I also have an Alesis Andromeda and I experience none of the problems that I have written about. I know all about playing with the gain to compensate for noise (through the pre or through the md itself or both). I did adjust for the optimum settings and at it's best it is still pretty noisy. By the way, the machine drum itself is not hot enough to record without the use of external amplification regardless of the +4 level output. So you ask "Why are you recoding in to the mic pre?". Answer: To get the levels hot enough to make a
 decent recording.

niall munnelly <aleph@...> wrote:i have recorded with a machinedrum, and i would never record
into a mic pre into a fireface 800.  why are you recording
into the mic pre?  iirc, the MD outputs at +4dbu, and the
fireface accepts +4dbu, -10dbv and "low gain".

you haven't told us what the sound is like when you record
directly from the MD into the fireface, nor have you told us
what gain setting the fireface was set to - did you give
elektron this information?

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