Emax

its the headphone amp thats the problem

made for small signal amplification

thatwhysamplingfrom a headphoneoutput is a no no

also the out put from the soundcard will be line level

most proberly -10bdu

thats why you need a mixer asittakes the line level

and can drivethe signal louder

if  your going to record from a soundcard

i would surgest doing it internally as that will be digital

and not the rubbish dacs and opmaps used in soundcards save as wave files 
and use emxp to convert to the emax format

you will get a much better recording
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Human Being" <abigblackwave@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [emax] bad sound


> Take the headphone amp out of the equation and post the results. I would 
> guess that is what's raising your noise floor.
>
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:18 AM, monsieur escargot wrote:
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>> I've uploaded the original file now. yes it is off the computer, 
>> unmastered
>> drum session bit.
>> the gain was set to 0dB on the emax and its Vumeter was going over half
>> way. I had tried it hotter, but worse results, and i made sure i was
>> sending mono signal and i checked the audio cable.
>> It doesnt do it with the few samples on disk supplied with the rack.
>>
>> for the gain stagging, is it correct that you can't audition what you are
>> sampling through the emax? only the result once you trigger it? I send
>> signal to emax though an headphone amp which can mono and monitor thru 
>> the
>> other channels either on headphones or mixer. Can't see what im doing 
>> wrong
>> with gain staging, but in a way i hope it is me and not the machine!
>>
>> thanks
>> dave
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Human Being 
>> abigblackwave@...>wrote:
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>> > Honestly, it sounds like you were sampling something off of your 
>> > computer
>> > and didn't utilize proper gain staging.
>> >
>> > On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:34 PM, papluss wrote:
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>> > > hi.
>> > > first sampling on my 'new' emax1. And it sounds like there is 
>> > > something
>> > wrong with it.
>> > > Would you be able to direct me towards the problem by hearing those
>> > samples i made?
>> > > https://soundcloud.com/paplusse/sets/emax-sampling-noise-problem
>> > >
>> > > thanks guys!
>> > > dave
>> > >
>> > >
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