Elektron Musical Instruments

Is your MD one of the earlier ones?
There was a batch with noisy outputs.
Check with elektron.

Also, you don't need to record that hot: if the clips hit -6db then  
you're already using all available bits and recording hotter than  
that won't give you a better sound.


Il giorno 08/nov/05, alle ore 20:08, s a ha scritto:

>    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?
>
> -- 
> yours,
> niall.
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