Ooof this sounds shite! Whats going on? Something wrong?

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opusover21opusover21 Frets: 42
edited January 13 in Digital & Modelling
Any tips ?

I purchased a UA Volt 2 to try a few UA dream plug ins etc but it sounds horrendous!  compared to UAA Woodrow pedal and delverb straight into my Adam A7v monitors? 

Even guitar straight into the Volt into Pro tools sounds horrible? 

What’s going on? Have I got some setting woefully wrong?

UA Pedal direct sounds sublime?
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  • EvoEvo Frets: 335
    Have I got some setting woefully wrong?
    Maybe?

    How would we know?
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 29630
    It might be useful if you actually gave us a clip of it sounding "horrible".
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 25215
    You might just not like the sound of the Dream. I had the pedal for couple of days and returned it. Way too scooped for my taste and some weird stuff going on with the reverb when using a slightly driven sound. 
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  • Axe2GrindAxe2Grind Frets: 9
    edited January 19
    I purchased a Rode AI-1 audio interface specifically to use guitar plugins, particularly the L6 Helix Native. 
    I had everything setup correctly with the lowest latency set. All guitar plugins sounded absolutely shite very harsh digital sounding compared to others that were getting excellent sounds. 
    I later read that an audio interface needs a very good dynamic range  above at least 120db.
    My interface is 99dB which is why its crap for guitar plugins. I read a Lehle Sunday Driver plugged into the audio input of the sound card would correct this and give good results but I have an FM3 so couldn't be bothered. 

    Check the dynamic range of your interface and if its below 120dB (I think the Volt 2 is about 110dB), so maybe get a sunday driver or similar booster to stick between your guitar and interface or sell and get something like the Audient ID interface that has a proper JFET guitar input with a 125dB range, some are higher.
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  • Yes sorry - Been tied up...

    I downloaded Logic Pro and simply created a new track....

    Downloaded a trial UA plug in and found the plug in....

    Connecting my LP into the Volt and playing through the plug-in t omy monitors sounded really poor, like a poor digital effects amp for £25

    I tried the Neural DSP native plug-in's which were markedly better so maybe a standard track in Logic Pro was adding a lot of extra 'stuff' which wasn't needed but yes native players seemed much better...

    None of it was up to scratch compared to the UA pedal....I was expected the same outcome hence my 'meh' post...

    I've used the Lion, which is great, Woodrow which is fab clean but more fuzz than valve drive, I've settled on the Dream as the cleans are very compatible to the Woodrow and the overdrive more realistic than that amp on the edge of exploding sound, its doesn't break up as nicely imho
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  • brucegillbrucegill Frets: 744
    Best to upload screenshots of the Logic tracks and audio examples. Blind leading the blind otherwise. 
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  • Is there a numpty's guide to follow...all I was after.....make sure you do this?!
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 29630
    Is there a numpty's guide to follow...all I was after.....make sure you do this?!
    Dude, you've already got Logic running. Just record some samples of the good and bad sounds, put them on SoundCloud, and give us a link.
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  • The volt interface went straight back to Amazon
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