06-07-2020, 10:50 AM
(06-02-2020, 05:48 PM)StuartR Wrote:(05-31-2020, 06:06 PM)Fennaric Wrote: Hello All,
Can anyone advise, or point me towards advice on connecting e-drums with Jamkazam. It's an Alesis DM8 kit that I have been trying to connect from the 1/8th headphones out on the drum brain to 1/4 inch jack in on a UMC 202HD interface. USB from 202HD to pc. Also a microphone for speaking into the 2nd 202HD input. On the rare occasions it does work the sound is very low and even minor volume increases cause distortion. Other occasions when I don't hear anything at all myself through the headphones but drums can be heard by other players. Other times everything packs up altogether. Am wondering if the connection between brain and 202HD needs to be from one or both, "main out", L+R, of the brain rather than the headphones out.
All advice appreciated.
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Don't use the headphone output to input to your audio interface! It's the wrong impedance which explains your loss of volume and distortion. Just use a good guitar cable from the DM8 left main output into one of the inputs of your audio interface.
Many thanks StuartR