Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:08:28AM -0800, s a wrote:
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> 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. 
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>  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. 

s a,
we're trying to help
you discern what the problem is with your machinedrum's 
setup - one _no one else here has reported_.  to do this, we
need to know what you're doing, how you're doing it and yes,
occasionally _why_ you're doing it, especially when the
outputs of the machinedrum, unamplified and at line level,
are sufficiently hot to require compression on every +4db
interface that has been reported in use with it - this
includes the rme fireface 800, though i've also used the MD
with motu PCI devices, a digi-001 and a presonus
firestation.

if you want to reduce the line level signal to mic level,
and then into a mic pre, that's your business, but no
machinedrum i have ever played or recorded in the last two years has required this, and the machinedrum was not made with your setup in mind.  so, for the benefit of everyone involved, you need to perform basic troubleshooting tasks and record it as it's meant to be recorded, and move on from there.  reiterating my last email, if you have the same noise recording the MD at line level, then your experience is anomalous and possibly the result of a hardware defect - and you should press the issue with elektron.

finally, the headphone outs have been noisy on every unit
i've played at maximum volume.  the only noise i ever got
from the MD was a readily-redressed ground loop.


no amount of truculent, condescending and passive aggressive
bullshit on your end will change this.  so good luck with
that.

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