I'm recording with the latest version of Garageband. I'm running my guitar directly into a Presonus Audio Box interface. I have selected on of the amps in GB and I'm using a distorted tone. However, I'm hearing my clean tone guitar through the monitors as well as the distorted sound. Do I have something hooked up wrong? I'm brand new to this stuff...
Robbie
Presonus/Garageband Question.....
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Robbie Bossert
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Presonus/Garageband Question.....
Emmons LeGrande III Pedal Steel. '54 Gibson lap steel, Peavey Nashville 1000, Nashville 400, Telecaster,Banjo, Peavey Power slide Lap Steels ,Effects, and other assorted crap.....
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Timothy Foster
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I haven't used either of the aforementioned, but practical experience using similar devices makes me think you are inadvertently using Garagebands default monitoring/audio loopback stream alongside some sort of "direct monitoring" from the Presonus piece.
The former is the standard monitoring functionality built into garageband. It's how you'll mix your tunes, and allows you to monitor live performances/tracking while using some sort of host processing -- amp simulation and effects plugins, etc. It comes at the cost of some latency (delay) from the time you pluck a note until you hear it in the monitors. The amount of that latency, and whether it will be noticeable or affect your playing, has a number of factors -- sample rate and buffer settings, plugins which introduce their own latency, hardware drivers, etc...
The latter (Presonus' "direct monitoring", if it indeed has this) would run independently of Garageband's monitoring stream, and would be useful when you want to hear the source exactly as it appears at the input of your audio interface without (or with minimal) latency. Great when tracking vocals, where a slight delay may lend to a phasey sound in the headphones.
Check out the presonus manual and see if it has a "direct monitoring" feature available in the driver settings, or via a separate mixer/utlity application. If so, you'll want to disable direct monitoring and/or mute the live mixer channels in any extra Presonus "mixer" app which may be runnnig. hope that helps or at least sets you down the right track.
The former is the standard monitoring functionality built into garageband. It's how you'll mix your tunes, and allows you to monitor live performances/tracking while using some sort of host processing -- amp simulation and effects plugins, etc. It comes at the cost of some latency (delay) from the time you pluck a note until you hear it in the monitors. The amount of that latency, and whether it will be noticeable or affect your playing, has a number of factors -- sample rate and buffer settings, plugins which introduce their own latency, hardware drivers, etc...
The latter (Presonus' "direct monitoring", if it indeed has this) would run independently of Garageband's monitoring stream, and would be useful when you want to hear the source exactly as it appears at the input of your audio interface without (or with minimal) latency. Great when tracking vocals, where a slight delay may lend to a phasey sound in the headphones.
Check out the presonus manual and see if it has a "direct monitoring" feature available in the driver settings, or via a separate mixer/utlity application. If so, you'll want to disable direct monitoring and/or mute the live mixer channels in any extra Presonus "mixer" app which may be runnnig. hope that helps or at least sets you down the right track.
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Robbie Bossert
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Thanks Tim...I'll check that out. I've been fooling with the mix knob as well on the PreSonus and that seem to have taken care of it a bit..
Robbie
Robbie
Emmons LeGrande III Pedal Steel. '54 Gibson lap steel, Peavey Nashville 1000, Nashville 400, Telecaster,Banjo, Peavey Power slide Lap Steels ,Effects, and other assorted crap.....