1 jack to double jack connector

[Behind]

I'm sorry if this has been posted before and also for the newbieness...

We all know the problems involving latency when directly recording our instruments.

Is it possible to split the signal of, for example, a guitar with this

in order to send one signal to the amp and the other one to the DI Box?

Is there any problem or loose of some type?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Forceps]

A DI box has 2 outputs: one for recording and one for your amp, so you don't need a thing like that.

 

[Behind]

Thanks for the super quick reply Forceps. I have just one problem... In the case of Line6 TonePort, there is no second output. So, it is possible to use the connector in that case?

 

[Forceps]

Hmm, if I remember correct I read somewhere that it's not a good idea to use one of those connectors... I believe they sorta split your sognal in half, so you loose some of the quality because of the connector.
Is there no way to change your buffer settings of the soundcard to get rid of the latency?

 

[Behind]

I've tweaked it to death but there's always some kind of latency. My specs are: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 and RAM 3 GB. Is this supposed to be slow?


I don't know why, but even if the latency is at it's lowest, you can feel that something is going wrong. Hate latency so badly!

 

[Trevoire520]

Just pick up a cheap DI box dude.

 

[Paulie!]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your using the usb out on the tone port for recording direct the output is meant to go to an amp.. correct? or is the output line-level?

-Paul

 

[Paulie!]

Scratch my thoughts, googled it, they are line-level...

-Paul

 

[DanLights]

your specs don´t sound bad, you shouldn´t have latency issues with that I think. Anyways, I wouldn´t trust that connector although I don´t really know, I´d say get a cheap DI box or a pedal that splits signal, it should be more reliable

 

[derfbonker]

Had similar problem running my PreSonus Inspire with Reaper, latency was around 9ms or something. I DL'ed ASIOforAll, and got it down to 2.9ms. Still feels a tad weird to me, but it's way better than it was. It's free, I'd try that first.

 

[TheWinterSnow]

Hmm, if I remember correct I read somewhere that it's not a good idea to use one of those connectors... I believe they sorta split your sognal in half, so you loose some of the quality because of the connector.

same goes for a DI parallel out. Splitting the signal drops the current in half, essentially dropping the voltage in half which results in a 3db volume loss for both signals, nothing a slight input gain adjustment can't fix. In terms of quality, your tone would be the same, loosing current doesn't mean loss in tone, just volume.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your using the usb out on the tone port for recording direct the output is meant to go to an amp.. correct? or is the output line-level?

If the output is the DI guitars only then yes it could be plugged into an amp and used as a monitor, doesn't matter that it is line level, a guitar amp really isn't picky about that kind of stuff. Case in point after a signal goes through an FX pedal the output is at line level before it goes to your amp, the only issue is that if the buffer of that stage wasn't designed for a specific current gain, you could get a loss of volume, but most devices can handle large impedance stages.