Saw this on Amazon , while searching for a suitable amp for high impedance headphones. What does the hive mind think? Is this a bog standard circuit? Better than a Focusrite Scarlett? I've got one, bought for considerably less from Aliexpress. I'm not using it for critical listening, but it works ...

People should I think make greater use of the principle of "sacrificial connectors" Absolutely. Had a friends "lump on a cable" PSU for a Shure radio pack passed on to me, bare conductors showing where the 12v cable exits the strain relief and has clearly been over-flexed. Of course, these things ...

I’m wondering if there is an issue with the kernelbase.dll file. From this MS help article. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/applications-fail-to-start-with-kernelbasedll/44a4c2ad-a43f-479b-b026-bcdc2ff01285 I’ve been following the section on registering the kernelbase.dll file ...

RME design their own hardware and drivers whereas Focusrite and most of the others buy in the USB or Thunderbolt parts and drivers from third party manufacturers. RME's USB drivers are far better than Zoom's in my experience. If you take a look at the DAWBench performance comparisons you will see ...

I really love my Johnson J-Station. They come up on the 2nd hand sites fairly regularly. I must pick up a spare. Still gigging with mine, it's a great little box. I've used Amplitude since V2, but upgrades sometimes break things, I've still got an outstanding support ticket many months old where V5 ...

Does the BSOD give a clue as to which driver is causing the problem? The image Oliver21 posted was visible earlier and the error was UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME You may be able to shed some light on that. Well, as you might expect, this isn't something you want to see. Pretty much as it says, the ...

Does the BSOD give a clue as to which driver is causing the problem? If you have another machine available you could try creating a bootable Linux USB stick and see if that boots, to try and rule out a serious hardware problem. Can you boot into the BIOS? Some manufacturers such as Dell / HP often ...

While there's a ram savings on the m1 vs integrated graphics, it's a much smaller difference than 16gb. With my desktop I started hitting the limit with 16gb and was able to add the (planned for) extra 2 sticks to get to 32gb. While ssd swap is much faster now, it's still an order of magnitude ...

Mudchild wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 3:23 pm

Rockrooms wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:57 pm
To the OP, just out of curiosity, is this working with a charity?

Joe

Apologies for the delay in replying - yes Joe, indeed it is

Thanks, have sent a PM, it didn't seem to want to leave my outbox last night, so you might get two copies Or none!

All the toslink sockets I've seen are sealed units and you wouldn't be able to push the plug out from inside Ah ok, that’s what I was wondering Great, thanks all I know it's out of warranty, but it's still well worth getting in touch with Focusrite support if you don't have any luck removing the b ...

It's not so much the drivers as the control software. Two parts of the same animal, you're not likely to find one without the other (not alive and well anyway). ...but there isn't a Focusrite control for Chromebook Right, because there isn't a custom driver, so the two devices can't communicate ...

Just a thought but regardless of whether Reaper will run on a Chromebook, not sure you'll get drivers for Chrome OS from any of the interface manufacturers? Focusrite for certain only do Windows or Mac, so unless Chrome OS can see an interface as a class compliant device - as would be the case if ...

Couple of things to check: Do you still have access to the old computer (or any other )and does the unit still work on that? You don't necessarily need to install the driver as windows will recognize it and you would be able to play sound from YouTube etc. Does the USB light come on when connected ...

Always worth checking if DPC is a problem: https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon" target="phpbbpopup If RAM is a problem then you'd see at lot of disk IO as things were being paged out to disk. Have a look in Resource monitor at what your disk is doing and if the pagefile.sys is being hammered ...

I've had my Focusrite 18i8 for about 2 years now and it's performed flawlessly. Went to record yesterday and the recorded input from XLR input 1 is very low and muddy. Nothing has changed in my recording setup. Could the input channel have gone bad? Dale It would be quite rare for a single channel ...

I’m assuming it’s called Solo because it only has one input. You can use a mic OR a guitar. Plugging in the guitar probably disables the mic input ( or vice versa ). You need the real two input Scarlett or use a mixer to combine mic and guitar and feed into the Solo. It's called a solo because it wa ...

I take a couple of days off visiting the girlfriend and it takes almost as long to catch up. It has grown into quite a thread. I never owned a Liquid 56, was very tempted by them back in the day and apparently they were very popular in Italy for some reason. It is wrong and bad in my books to blame ...

Thing is, writing a driver is not particularly difficult. It's actually much easier than building a complex business application or even a website. Drivers are easy simply because if you have a very well defined scope and clear interfaces both on the OS side and on the hardware side. First up full ...

Can I ask a question that I cannot find the answer to anywhere? I have Scarlett Solo, and it is fine for my needs with one exception. I cannot turn down the monitors while still hearing the headphones. The 2i2 seems to have a separate volume control for the phones, does that mean you can you have ...

From what you've described, my guess is you're getting sparks because there is a disagreement as to what ground is between the Mac USB power ground and the input ground on the monitors by some significant margin. This is not good and could potentially cause damage to the Scarlett, Mac or the ...

The 2Pre power supply is a wall wart with a plastic earth pin, it doesn't ground the supply, so I don't think that's going to make a difference here. Are the sparks persistent ? I.e if you remove the cable and try again they always occur? If you have a radiator pipe handy, or other known grounded ...

Hi I replaced my 2i2 with this and I cannot figure it out. I can only get dry sounds from my guitar with I plug it in and it doesn't matter if I use Logic, MainStage or nothing, it all sounds straight guitar with nothing added. I switch on amps and effects and nothing changes. I'm guessing it's ...

The "Air" functionality is an eq bump but I can't find the specs for it anymore. I can't remember if the input impedance changes too but I haven't noticed any changes in sensitivity when pushing the air button so I think not. It's meant to emulate the sound of the analog "transfomer-based" ISA pres ...

I've got a largish project going with a load of tracks and plugins and the CPU hit is showing at 60% (5+ years old i7 Quadcore on Windows 7), RAM is fine as this is the mix stage so 10gb available. Would this be an issue with the CPU or the HDD playing back the audio tracks along with the CPU hit ...

.............but is more of a lottery and you're always one Windows update away from things going south............ Joe A good point well put! Well! There must be some unlucky Bs out there. I have been running a W10 laptop for two years and my DAWs and variuos interfaces that get connected from tme ...