Monitoring/recording connections

You could always monitor using your main outputs. Set those to master stereo. For recording, you could use your SPDIF connection. Set it to guitar/stack. Use input monitoring in your DAW so that you only hear the sound of the master stereo outputs, but record the track which is set to the SPDIF input.

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You could always monitor using your main outputs. Set those to master stereo. For recording, you could use your SPDIF connection. Set it to guitar/stack. Use input monitoring in your DAW so that you only hear the sound of the master stereo outputs, but record the track which is set to the SPDIF input.

That's exactly what I do all the time when recording.

How will the OP hear the backtracks from the DAW?

I have my monitors plus my CLR's.

My recording setup is :
- SPDIF > Soundcard with GIT/AMP : To record the DI and the mono Amped version
- Main output > soundcard : for sound monitoring and eventually recording the stereo output

And just like Ingolf, my CLR is connected to the KPA monitor output

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How will the OP hear the backtracks from the DAW?

Since the OP is monitoring a different channel from the one being recorded on, the track on which he records the guitar/stack signal will play back without being muted.

I got that he was advised to connect his monitors to the Profiler?

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I got that he was advised to connect his monitors to the Profiler?

No, this is all about convenience here. When you have recording monitors AND FRFR's (like CLR's in my case) this will be a non-existant problem because you monitor the profiler totally independently from everything else.

Yeah, but he owns his monitors only, hence my question: how will the OP hear the backtracks from the DAW if he connects the monitors to the Profiler?
Sure I'm missing something here

Actually I'm not quite clear to what the OP can use for monitoring.
It only was to show that independent monitoring is doable - and often very useful.

Actually, my question was born from nightlight's post:

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you could always monitor using your main outputs. Set those to master
stereo. For recording, you could use your SPDIF connection.

If I got it right, he was suggesting to connect the monitors to the Profiler's main output, and hit the DAW with the S\PDIF.
Your answer was "this is what I do all the time". So, provided I got what nightlight was suggesting, I'm missing how can the tracks back from the DAW be heard. The OP wrote he's got only a pair of monitors.
Does this make any sense?

Quote from viabcroce

Actually, my question was born from nightlight's post:

If I got it right, he was suggesting to connect the monitors to the Profiler's main output, and hit the DAW with the S\PDIF.
Your answer was "this is what I do all the time". So, provided I got what nightlight was suggesting, I'm missing how can the tracks back from the DAW be heard. The OP wrote he's got only a pair of monitors.
Does this make any sense?

No, viabcroce, what I was suggesting was that he monitors using the master stereo input of the Kemper, i.e. he sends the stereo signal into sound card, which is monitored through the DAW by hitting that little speaker symbol on the track for input monitoring.

He would then send the guitar/stack signal to the sound card via SPDIF, but would not switch on input monitoring. This way he will only hear the effected sound, not the dry guitar/stack sound while recording a DI/dry track.

Ah, that's what that "monitor" was

This setup implies that he has to keep his computer on any time he just wants to play the Profiler, unless the soindcard lets the signal pass when it's not switched on as well.

Not if he just sends a single out from monitor output to a speaker .

Think this was just for recording though.

...and then he'll be forced to re-connect the second monitor to the soundcard whenever/if he wants to record/play(back) in stereo (unless etc.)

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...and then he'll be forced to re-connect the second monitor to the soundcard whenever/if he wants to record/play(back) in stereo (unless etc.)

Jeez, viabcroce

I remember this issue has already been discussed here.
We came to the conclusion that, unless the soundcard is able to work when the computer is switched off (which might well be the case), the only option in order to not be obliged to always rewire things is a cheap line-level mixer