Pushing Air for Realistic VI Sounds-UPDATE

[digital1]

Thanks for responding, Len. The problem is definitely in the input. I'm running the Duet (firewire) out to a guitar amp. I'll try a different cable, but I don't think that's the trouble. The Duet firewire is plugged in to a firewire hard drive and that drive is plugged into the Mac. The Duet has no power cord. Perhaps running it this way is causing this interference. The Duet manual states that it can go out to an instrument amp. There is an Apogee software setting that I change to switch from speakers to instrument amp. The levels weren't too high or anything. Just have that static present all the time when I set this up. I don't have another amp to try with it.

Perhaps there is some kind of incompatibility between the Duet and the amp (Carr Vincent). Not sure what to look for regarding the specs on the amp and the Duet. I have the amp set on 7 watts. I can try the 33 watt setting to see if that works any better. I'll try to get to it tomorrow and see what happens.

Thanks again.

Jerry

[Len911]

Thanks for responding, Len. The problem is definitely in the input. I'm running the Duet (firewire) out to a guitar amp. I'll try a different cable, but I don't think that's the trouble. The Duet firewire is plugged in to a firewire hard drive and that drive is plugged into the Mac. The Duet has no power cord. Perhaps running it this way is causing this interference. The Duet manual states that it can go out to an instrument amp. There is an Apogee software setting that I change to switch from speakers to instrument amp. The levels weren't too high or anything. Just have that static present all the time when I set this up. I don't have another amp to try with it.

Perhaps there is some kind of incompatibility between the Duet and the amp (Carr Vincent). Not sure what to look for regarding the specs on the amp and the Duet. I have the amp set on 7 watts. I can try the 33 watt setting to see if that works any better. I'll try to get to it tomorrow and see what happens.

Thanks again.

Jerry

From what it appears from the Carr Vincent website, I don't see a line level input, only an instrument level. Don't cran
ck up the signal from the duet. I think you need an impedence matching transformer, I'll do some looking


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProRMP

Here you go. That solves the input to the amp. I noticed the Carr Vincent site had about a hundred amps,lol, does yours have a line out? or are you mic'ing the speaker? or I noticed something about there being a "speaker output" jack, another potential impedence problem needing matched??

[digital1]

I think that Radial would do the trick.

From what I see, I run an XLR from the output of the Duet into the Radial. From the Radial, I run a 1/4'" from its output to the guitar input on the amplifier. That should get rid of the static. The Apogee software fixes the volume when I choose the "out to instrument amp" setting, but the Radial has a level setting to adjust. I'm mic'ing the amplifier speaker.

This looks like it will work. Thanks for checking it out!

Jerry

[Len911]

I think that Radial would do the trick.

From what I see, I run an XLR from the output of the Duet into the Radial. From the Radial, I run a 1/4'" from its output to the guitar input on the amplifier. That should get rid of the static. The Apogee software fixes the volume when I choose the "out to instrument amp" setting, but the Radial has a level setting to adjust. I'm mic'ing the amplifier speaker.

This looks like it will work. Thanks for checking it out!

Jerry

You're welcome! If it says "out to instrument amp" that shoud be fine, and yes Iforgot, "Pushing air" would have mic'd speakers,lol!