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So conundrum A is pretty straightforward. I think the sonicake IR loader might just suck. I’ve been going crazy thinking there’s a difference in tone between going direct from captor and sonicake IR vs captor into reaper with the wall of sound loader. Just did a proper A/B and turns out there’s a HUGE difference with the exact same IRs. No EQ or anything in the WoS just straight up. Sonicake sounds like muffled shit in comparison. I don’t know much about IRs but the space on the sonicake is extremely limited and there’s a “converter” on their site that truncates IRs to fit on there. Would that really cause that much of a difference on the whole tone? Thinking I should’ve gone with the TC electronics IR loader now. Any other reasons this thing might just suck ass?
Now conundrum B is where things get weird. On a completely random from day to day basis I’m getting HORRIBLE shrill feed back and squealing. This is not consistent all the time though, but often. Thing is, I can’t just totally blame the IR loader. If I skip the IR loader into my in ear pack I still get the horrifying feedback, both from the line out and the XLr out with the captors baked in crappy cab sim. There is ZERO feedback when running either of those outputs into interface/DAW. For a minute I thought it was just my semihollow guitars that were doing this because at least that would vaguely make sense (except not, because again, 0 noise in the daw) because I switched to my silver sky and for whatever reason the squealing is slightly less bad with that guitar. But I tried all my other solid bodies tonight and same problem.
Feel like I should at least get a different hardware loader for the sound quality alone. But if I’m randomly having nightmare squealing that’s probably already damaged my hearing what’s the point
Any ideas? I’m stumped
Now conundrum B is where things get weird. On a completely random from day to day basis I’m getting HORRIBLE shrill feed back and squealing. This is not consistent all the time though, but often. Thing is, I can’t just totally blame the IR loader. If I skip the IR loader into my in ear pack I still get the horrifying feedback, both from the line out and the XLr out with the captors baked in crappy cab sim. There is ZERO feedback when running either of those outputs into interface/DAW. For a minute I thought it was just my semihollow guitars that were doing this because at least that would vaguely make sense (except not, because again, 0 noise in the daw) because I switched to my silver sky and for whatever reason the squealing is slightly less bad with that guitar. But I tried all my other solid bodies tonight and same problem.
Feel like I should at least get a different hardware loader for the sound quality alone. But if I’m randomly having nightmare squealing that’s probably already damaged my hearing what’s the point
Any ideas? I’m stumped
still seems strange that the noise goes away introducing even more hardware/software to the signal chain
