rosleck
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Good Morning,
I was hoping for a little advise on guitar audio interfaces. Since 2008 I have been using a line 6 tone port DI (main) and a tone port UX2 (backup) as my interface. When I added My Axe to the mix last year I just ran a cable from the headphone jack to the tone port line in so I would not have to mess with the drivers. Why mess whit what is working?
1 month ago the DI died and last week the UX2 followed suit. I checked with Line 6 about repair and was told I would most likely have to buy a new replacements. I spent some time last weekend trying to use the Axe as the interface and I got all of the drivers in place but I couldn’t get past audio drop outs in Sonar and I could not hear the guitar thru the PC. Outside of Sonar I lost all sounds on the PC. I unhooked the Axe and managed to get the PC working on the built in sound card again. This issue is most likely me as I got frustrated quickly and gave up. I will be giving it another shot this weekend.
My question is if I can get the Axe working do I need to leave it always on just so I have sound on my DAW? The Tone ports worked well and were powered via USB …..I don’t really want to leave me Axe on all the time…just when I am recording. Is this possible?
A second question is would I be better off picking up a new ( inexpensive ) interface? The Focusrite 2i2 and the Komplete audio 6 both look like something I could use. Is this a better way to go? I am a “hobbiest” now who’s live playing is most likely behind me at this point so I have no need to anything fancier that the basics.
Thank you for your input in advance!
I was hoping for a little advise on guitar audio interfaces. Since 2008 I have been using a line 6 tone port DI (main) and a tone port UX2 (backup) as my interface. When I added My Axe to the mix last year I just ran a cable from the headphone jack to the tone port line in so I would not have to mess with the drivers. Why mess whit what is working?
1 month ago the DI died and last week the UX2 followed suit. I checked with Line 6 about repair and was told I would most likely have to buy a new replacements. I spent some time last weekend trying to use the Axe as the interface and I got all of the drivers in place but I couldn’t get past audio drop outs in Sonar and I could not hear the guitar thru the PC. Outside of Sonar I lost all sounds on the PC. I unhooked the Axe and managed to get the PC working on the built in sound card again. This issue is most likely me as I got frustrated quickly and gave up. I will be giving it another shot this weekend.
My question is if I can get the Axe working do I need to leave it always on just so I have sound on my DAW? The Tone ports worked well and were powered via USB …..I don’t really want to leave me Axe on all the time…just when I am recording. Is this possible?
A second question is would I be better off picking up a new ( inexpensive ) interface? The Focusrite 2i2 and the Komplete audio 6 both look like something I could use. Is this a better way to go? I am a “hobbiest” now who’s live playing is most likely behind me at this point so I have no need to anything fancier that the basics.
Thank you for your input in advance!
