Elektron Musical Instruments

I don't know how you record but this is the way that I do it. I usually track as hot as possible to ensure that I get the best recording. That means I get as close to clipping the input without actually doing it. I don't know of any instrument, +4 or not that can do this without any external amplification. 
 
"remember to
bypass the pre - this was made for line-level inputs."

 
Are you serious? Do you know what a direct box does? It changes the impedence of the incoming signal to mic level. Then the audio is fit to be passed through a mic pre for amplification. After which I will be able to reach a proper recording level. Only when the signal reaches a suitable level, does it become very apparent where the noise floor is. By the way, the noise floor can be monitored on my unit without any external amplification at all, through the headphones. It is a "white" like noise that exists on all outputs and the heaphone outs. I can monitor this noise at just above the half way point on the volume knob, and it only becomes more apparent as the knob is turned up. Could someone please check their unit out to see if it does the same thing? Please don't respond without actually checking it out. 

 I would like to get responses from people that have experience recording the machine drum through a front end such as a direct box and mic pre. It's seems that those people will know a little bit more about the recording process. 


niall munnelly <aleph@...> wrote: 
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:39:45PM -0800, s a wrote:
>    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.

then your experience is unlike any other described here.
post detailed sound examples, provide them to elektron
support, and see if you can get a different MD from them or
your vendor {if you bought it new recently}.  remember to
bypass the pre - this was made for line-level inputs.

also, can you describe the noise?  do you hear it on all
outs?

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