 Monitors
Hello. I am very much new to recording at home with the PC and I have a few questions. Im using Maudio Fast Track Pro as my interface and using Mixcraft 4 as my software. I had recording a few things already but because I did not hear my electric guitar while recording, I never really did much. I would record something and then add effects through the software. So then I learned about monitors and I bought some Rokit 5's. This is how I connected at first. The Fast Track Pro has line outs on the back. I bought the cables and ran from the line outs into the monitors. I was happy to be able to hear my guitar while recording and all was fine. I have a Vox ADT30 amp and I wanted to be able to use the sounds of the amp while recording. I did not know if that was possible but I tried it anyway by running my guitar cable into the amp and then running the line out/headphones into the input on the Fast Track USB Pro and it worked. I was able to use any effects on the amp and the sound I heard while recording was coming out of the monitors and not the amp cab. The reason I wanted to do this is because I did not want to mic the amp. I did my first track and then shut the amp off so I could hear the playback and the playback out of the monitors was very nice. I tried to add vocals but my mic signal seems very weak. Maybe I have the wrong mic or something but no biggie, cant sing anyway. I went back and turned the amp on to record more but no Im not getting any sound from the monitors. I can record, you see the meter moving in the software but again there is no sound coming out the monitors via the amp. I unplugged it all and connected again but nothing. Am I missing something here? One more question is that when I did my playback, it's only coming out of one speaker so I did something wrong there too. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
Thomas
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