I have a few questions about gear that I'm not sure about so hopefully someone can help me.
I'm wanting to get the best quality DI's down that I can. At the moment I'm using a Palmer PAN02 active DI box into an M-Audio Projectmix with a Behringer ADA8000 attached by ADAT to a PC with Cubase 5.
Now the projectmix does me ok for an interface but I don't think the preamps and converters in it are the best (not the worst either) but I was thinking of getting a dedicated mic preamp and not being very techy and never having owned one, would I have to run my instrument through the preamp and then into one of the projectmix's inputs?
If so wouldn't that just cancel out any good signal by going from a great preamp to a crappy one?
Also on another note, does the project bit and sample rate only apply's to recorded audio sections and not 'live' audio simply passing through. I only ask because I can usually get decent tones when jamming my guitar live through the system (with a sim & inpulse) to the speakers but when I actually lay down the DI's audio and play back it seems to lose quality in the form of more fuzz and dullness. It's the same tone but some of the quality seems to be lost.
Thanks.
I'm wanting to get the best quality DI's down that I can. At the moment I'm using a Palmer PAN02 active DI box into an M-Audio Projectmix with a Behringer ADA8000 attached by ADAT to a PC with Cubase 5.
Now the projectmix does me ok for an interface but I don't think the preamps and converters in it are the best (not the worst either) but I was thinking of getting a dedicated mic preamp and not being very techy and never having owned one, would I have to run my instrument through the preamp and then into one of the projectmix's inputs?
If so wouldn't that just cancel out any good signal by going from a great preamp to a crappy one?
Also on another note, does the project bit and sample rate only apply's to recorded audio sections and not 'live' audio simply passing through. I only ask because I can usually get decent tones when jamming my guitar live through the system (with a sim & inpulse) to the speakers but when I actually lay down the DI's audio and play back it seems to lose quality in the form of more fuzz and dullness. It's the same tone but some of the quality seems to be lost.
Thanks.