SP-FORUMS

23 minutes of el fuego


https://soundcloud.com/eprocks/electric-panther-mixtape

lmk what ya'll think
always down for critiques.

The switches should be in "line" position.
"inst" probably means that the signal will be preamplified - you don´t want that. "instrument" is a stupid term they have used, it´s usually called "phono". (look up "RIAA curve")

I suspect it´s the balanced inputs though...
They expect 2 identical but ...

Fresh

They both sound weird. The second example still has some kind of digital-sounding glitchy shit all the way through.

Based on the recording my first guess would be that you are running a line level source (SP) into a phono input. Are the switches under the inputs switched to "line" and not "inst ...

I have not run into any of the recording issues you're experiencing myself so lets take this a step further:

What are you using to record? What is your signal chain like? The hardware side of things.


Sp -> rca to phono with 1/4th adapter -> Scarlett 2i2 -> ableton 8

Sp volume is from 12-2 ...

So after some experimenting I found a temporary solution. Pretty damn jerry-rigged but I ran the sp into an old 10 watt guitar practice amp and from that into the audio interface- seems to sound fine now. Theres an example in the link, the first part of the audio is straight into the interface and ...

Recording into the sp is fine-levels are usually on point, I forget sometimes about the lil clipping light when I'm in the zone(bad habit)

I've done the card reader method and composed in ableton, I just enjoy the feel of playing live off the sp. I'm still trouble shooting things, I went through a ...

This is fire. Dope sound man.

Hello, long time reader-first time posting.
I grabbed up a 404sx a few months ago(best decision on gear I've made in a long time) Since then I've filled my banks with a gang of bangin-ass beats, 1 shots, and a bunch of other sounds that I can play seamlessly live. I'm attempting to record these ...