Bias having no affect on tone

haydn

Hello, when i plug my guitar into my interface (scarlet focusrite solo) and its just a dry guitar signal. None of the amps or effect affect the tone at all. What would be the problem here?

Also as a side note if anyone can help, there is a lot of latency from when i play to when i hear the guitar. I know it'll be to do with configuration but i have no idea what to do for that.

Cheers.

pipelineaudio

Are you using it in a daw or standalone? Latency depends on how you have your soundcard's control panel set. Your articular interface definitely has acceptably low latency as long as you set it that way

Elric

@haydn check your direct mix control you are probably monitoring the dry signal

@elric : yup I had a variant of this the other night, where I was hearing the stem sound, as well as the amp tone. Plus it was quieter at the samesetting on the interface dial.

mackcullete_0210

@haydn I got the same issue. Scarlett Solo and tried everything but still my guitar sounds like it's not even plugged in to the interface. I can hear it on my headset but sound is clean and dry like when your practicing and the guitar is not plugged into an amp. Only difference is, it's louder since it's connected to my focusrite interface but that's it. Have you found a solution to this? Makes no difference if I'm using Reaper or standalone. Anybody?

pipelineaudio

You sure you don’t have the monitor knob set to direct?

bradd_91

Are your monitors connected to the Scarlett or your PC?

shandry_71

Has this problem been resolved? I'm having the same problem as the OP.

pipelineaudio

Where is your monitor switch/knob set to?

shandry_71

@pipelineaudio said in Bias having no affect on tone:

Where is your monitor switch/knob set to?

On.

shandry_71

@pipelineaudio said in Bias having no affect on tone:

Where is your monitor switch/knob set to?

Set to ON.
All I hear is the dry signal. Can't hear Bias.
When I use my iRig HD, I have zero problems.

pipelineaudio

Turn the monitor switch to off or all you will hear is dry signal. It would be the same as setting the Thru/FX switch on the iRig HD to "Thru"...All you will get is dry signal. Turn monitoring on the interface off, monitor through your DAW or standalone, then you will get whatever % of wet signal you specify rather than 100% dry

shandry_71

@pipelineaudio said in Bias having no affect on tone:

Turn the monitor switch to off or all you will hear is dry signal. It would be the same as setting the Thru/FX switch on the iRig HD to "Thru"...All you will get is dry signal. Turn monitoring on the interface off, monitor through your DAW or standalone, then you will get whatever % of wet signal you specify rather than 100% dry

Thanks, that worked.
On a similar note, I might just stick with my lowly iRig HD and return the Scarlett Solo. I don't see much advantage over the iRig.

tafkad

@shandry_71 I tried the iRig HD a while back and would not recommend any IK product to anyone to be honest (tried many) as I found them to have a slight harshness to them that showed up too easily for me as in the preamps did not feel totally usable across the entire throw of the potentiometer - the Scarlet had a cleaner overall input in my limited testing and opinion I'm sure many would disagree but there it is - cheers

pipelineaudio

Both the inputs and outputs of the iRig HD2 distort well below 0dBFS. Some of the early Focusrite inputs did as well, but only because they didn't have enough padding to stay under 0dBFS