Profiler Player unusable on Windows without ASIO4ALL?

Quote from Wheresthedug

You should tick the -12db option on the output menu when using an interface that has automatic mic pres. in fact for the Focusrite I would use XLR to 1/4” AND -12db to avoid overloading the inputs. The Kemper outs are pretty hot. Having said that, I used to use my Kemper Head into a Focusrite Saffire Pro interface and the analog signal was indistinguishable from the SPDIF signal. I now use a MOTU iltralite and both the XLR > XLR and XLR > 1/4” sound just as good as SPDIF. I have used the USB audio on both the Player and Head and they work well (although the latency is a bit worse than via the MOTU. However, for convenience I prefer to stick with using my MOTU for everything so the USB audio isn’t a big deal either way.

I did grab an XLR -> 1/4" today and I was able to run that into the scarlett and compare against the heaphone output. In order to get the same tone out of my monitors I had to disable the pad, but I already knew where my gain was so that helped avoid potentially blowing something out. The pre definitely seems disabled when not using XLR and that should be the behavior.

I think I'm just going to try out a motu m4 next and maybe upgrade my mackie big knob so i can always have an output to my speakers. For the moment I have everything good enough and it's been a good time playing.

I think even as just a replacement for a tube amp/pedal platform this is going to be the best purchase I've made.

Quote from paddyc

Earlier focusrite scarletts were known to have gain problems IIRC. Bin it.

This seems to be a consensus. I've found a couple other threads where people have had issues. It's doing something to the gain. I think you can turn off the autogain feature in the 4th gen 4i4 and above but I still would just rather have a line option.