So in these surreal and extraordinary lockdown measures, I am seeking to set up a simple recording set-up whereby I can get busy upstairs in my music room anytime, day or night, and not cause any disturbance to anyone else in the building. I am into Ambient, Shoegaze and Drone types of sounds and make soundpieces for video, art installations and also just for me....normally I would just put a SM57 in front of my amp, but in this new scenario I want to use my H6 recorder and place it at the end of my effects chain (I don't have a mixer here) and record in Stereo straight to SD card. So my question is...without using a mixing desk, how do I get the best possible audio quality into the H6? H6 inputs are combi XLR/TRS type and I come out stereo from my last pedal (ditto X2). I have tried going straight to the H6 from the ditto but the results were disappointing. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers!
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Guitar - monsterpiece fuzz or lunar module fuzz or both - volume pedal - cmat signa drive - tremolo - El capistan - Neunaber stereo wet - Ditto x2 - Amp...
Normally I would use my Vox Heritage AC15 for the ambient playing but I also have a JVM 410 and it has an emulated line out! Could that be a possible solution?
My instincts are saying use something else in my chain...would something like the American Sound solve the whole thing? Or a Sansamp GT2? Or even just a stereo DI between the looper and the H6?
So when you got the Session preamp was the gamechanger that you could now put the session preamp between your drive/fuzz pedals and the desk and get a more authentic tone?
I do feel that it's missing the point a bit having a 100w Marshall cooking away for hrs on end in order to achieve acceptable silent recording...I would rather a small outlay into another piece of gear that may likely bring better results.