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Originally Posted by Dg17
I see a lot of people going into a DI box, into their interface, out to their reamp box and then to the amp. Pretty much any youtube tutorial. They'll be using headphone monitors plugged into their DI box to hear what they are tracking. What I'm trying to figure out is how do they track in tempo if the DI Box is before their interface in their signal chain? youtube link i'm referencing:
https://youtu.be/luE_WcCZkOw |
You are very confused. You do not see folks plugging headphones into DI boxes because you cant do that. i suspect you are confused between what a DI box is and what an interface is.
In the exact video you link you give.... he is *not* using a DI box, he is using an Apollo *interface* that happens to have a DI input. That whole thingy is called an *interface*. He has the headphones plugged into the *interface*.
He happens to be doing hardware monitoring through the UAD console which is a capability of... wait for it... the UAD Apollo *interface*. But that's a choice, you can often track through Pro Tools and a guitar amp sim at reasonably small IO buffer size and get usable latency with any other *interface*.
Nowhere here have you even described what interface you have... many interfaces will have a built in DI input and that should be your starting point, if your interface does not have a DI input, or for more demanding cases, longer cable runs, more noise/hum issues then you might want to look at an actual DI box and you run that normally into a mic preamp input, if the interface does not have a built in mic preamp then you run DI box to an external preamp then to the interface. Or you use an external preamp with built in DI input.
This is an interface (with DI input)...
https://www.uaudio.com/audio-interfaces/apollo-x4.html ... has headphone outputs...
This is a DI box..
https://www.radialeng.com/product/jdi ... no headphone outputs.
Interface (with DI input)...
https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-i...t/scarlett-2i2 ... has headphone outputs.
Another DI box...
https://rupertneve.com/products/rndi ... no headphone outputs.
Another DI box...
https://warmaudio.com/direct-boxes ... nope still no headphone outputs.
And a goldfish...
https://www.fishkeepingworld.com/fantail-goldfish/ ... also no headphone outputs..
And an interface (with DI inputs)...
https://motu.com/products/avb/1248 ... oh and yes, headphone outputs.
Oh but an interface with no DI, no headphone outputs and no preamps...
https://www.uaudio.com/audio-interfaces/apollo-x16.html
Making sense yet?