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Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Musical Composition. Sounds kinda like what you're looking for although it's probably a tad removed from guitar music. Good stuff to think about, though.

Drums sound awesome. Finally an Arsis album with decent production! Pretty cool that they redid Face of my Innocence.

Using an 1/4" to XLR cable will only allow me to use the microphone input, so it sounds like crap basically. And lowering the pickup height definitely reduces my guitar's output, but with my Painkiller it's pretty much straddling the line between sounding anemic or clipping on hard transients...

Yeah...I just wish that they'd actually know about their products rather than incorrectly advising their customers. It seems like the best thing is to just do all guitar processing externally and use a D.I. box to capture a high quality signal, but the fewer things I have to carry around while...

Well, I bought the Forte since I got confirmation that the pad would give me 10 more dB of headroom both via Focusrite support over email and on the phone, BUT the pad doesn't actually do anything at all unless it's set to use the microphone input. The unit sounds good, but needless to say I'm...

Hey guys, I'm moving out of the country for work, so I'm trying to find good homes for my gear. All of this gear has been kept in a non-smoking home studio and works perfectly. I can sell this locally anywhere between Vancouver, WA and Eugene, OR. Otherwise message me and we can figure out...

I ended up calling and the rep said that the pad will add an extra 10dB of headroom to the instrument input, totaling a max input level of about +20dBu, so we should be good to go. I'm gonna buy one pretty soon and see for sure, though; it seemed like there might still have been a little...

After looking some more, the Forte pretty much seems like my top choice (quality/price point) as long as it has enough headroom for a DI. I tried to contact Focusrite about the pad switch, but haven't had a reply--does anyone know if the -10db pad can in fact be used when the input is set to...

That seems like a solid low cost option. How does it actually sound, though (pres, converters)? Also, just noticed the Echo 2. Anyone have experience with that?

Strange, I've tried multiple guitars and basses and cables and they pretty much all need the pad engaged or else it'll clip...that said I could always use a real tube screamer without true bypass or something as a "pad," because I do like the Forte otherwise.

What settings do you use with your Pro 40? I have one as well, and with my guitar I enable both the Instrument and Pad and set the gain around 3 or 4, which works pretty well. Without the pad, though, it clips on hard transients with the gain at 0 on instrument mode.

Oh, no, I'm saying it doesn't have enough headroom. I'll clip the input with the input level at its lowest setting.

I was looking at the Forte, but its max input level on the Hi-Z input is +10dBu, which, if it's rated in the same way that the Saffires are measured, isn't enough for my guitar :(.

Hey all, Sorry to make yet another interface topic, but I'm having trouble finding a really solid option for something to temporarily replace my desktop setup. I'll be abroad for at least a year with just a laptop, and here's what I'm looking for: -USB connection -1 really good...