Hello!
Last night I rewired my studio a bit in order to answer a question I've long held: would sending digital 8-track (software synths, baby!) out of my sound card, into outboard tube gear and wonky-ass 1980's mixers, then back into the interface add any sort of magic?
Check back later tonight to find out! I'll post up pictures of the signal path, and I'll be uploading two waves to my soundcloud: one of the sound sample mixed in the box, the other of the same sound sample 'farmed out' to outboard equipment.
i tried this once, but the results were...wonky. i couldn't tell what the problem was, maybe something to do with mismatching bitrates or something, but the sound coming out of the computer just sounded terrible. even when i just played an mp3 or wav file, some sounds came through loud and clear, others seemed muffled with digital distortion. my own music, professionally recorded music...everything. still don't know what the problem was, but couldn't be bothered spending too much time getting to the bottom of it.
ReplyDeletelet me know how it works for you...might just be my shitty ass soundcard.
I've already tried this to a smaller extent: I've been piping Kontakt 808 through the Manley Vari Mu.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds heavenly...people think it's an actual 808!