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I've been using the Tokyo Dawn eq and compressor (freebies) and really like them. Before I take the plunge and buy their limiter, has anyone tried it?

I may copy you and try these out. I upgraded my interface lately to a Roland Rubix24 and it has a built in hardware compressor/limiter which I think helps quite a bit... I think. I haven't really been A B'in it but I been liking my guitar tones more lately since using it. It also has a three way slider in the back for more adjustments to compression/limits.

Sounds like a great feature. I've been having trouble with my focusrite 2i4 and need to check into this interface.

FAKA! wrote:I may copy you and try these out. I upgraded my interface lately to a Roland Rubix24 and it has a built in hardware compressor/limiter which I think helps quite a bit... I think. I haven't really been A B'in it but I been liking my guitar tones more lately since using it. It also has a three way slider in the back for more adjustments to compression/limits.

I stumbled across the Roland Quad Capture today. Has some cool features like auto sense for setting volume, a compressor and a low cut. No limiter though. Pretty sure I'm going with the Rubix 24 once Sweetwater gets them in stock.

I have the quad capture, been using for years. Never had any issues with it really.. I upgraded to the Rubix24 mainly for the compressor\limiter plus it had a separate headphone volume than the speaker (the quad capture only had one volume for both). I can't really say one sounds better than the other since my speakers are total shit and mainly use headphones for everything. The Rubix pushes my headphones better though for sure, more clarity when turned up.

I did see a few youtube comments were guys had full-on pulsating rage boners for that headphone volume issue on the quad. How do you like the auto sense level control?

My Rubix shipped today from Sweetwater. I only got two years out of my focusrite 2i4 before it went belly up last month.

FAKA! wrote:I may copy you and try these out. I upgraded my interface lately to a Roland Rubix24 and it has a built in hardware compressor/limiter which I think helps quite a bit... I think. I haven't really been A B'in it but I been liking my guitar tones more lately since using it. It also has a three way slider in the back for more adjustments to compression/limits.

Got my Rubix 24 the other day. Seems like a great piece of shit!

It was a bit frustrating at first as at least one of the links in the manual was spelled wrong and even after correcting it, it was page not found. Also had to restart my computer twice. Not a big deal, but it would've been nice to know that beforehand. Before the second restart it would not recognize my plugins so I just got a clean signal.

Anyway, are you using the limiter or compressor? I've been running the compressor about noon. It may have been beneficial to have the option of running both the comp and limit at the same time.

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:

FAKA! wrote:I may copy you and try these out. I upgraded my interface lately to a Roland Rubix24 and it has a built in hardware compressor/limiter which I think helps quite a bit... I think. I haven't really been A B'in it but I been liking my guitar tones more lately since using it. It also has a three way slider in the back for more adjustments to compression/limits.

Got my Rubix 24 the other day. Seems like a great piece of shit!

It was a bit frustrating at first as at least one of the links in the manual was spelled wrong and even after correcting it, it was page not found. Also had to restart my computer twice. Not a big deal, but it would've been nice to know that beforehand. Before the second restart it would not recognize my plugins so I just got a clean signal.

Anyway, are you using the limiter or compressor? I've been running the compressor about noon. It may have been beneficial to have the option of running both the comp and limit at the same time.

Sorry dude didn't see this post til just now. Grats on your new piece of shit!

I was using comp1 also at noon for awhile and only recently started trying the limiter...To me using comp1 made my guitar sound more aggressive and the limiter smoothed things out... not sure what I like more yet. Also if your using windows in the control panel/sound make sure your recording and playback is set higher than 44Hz. I use 24 bit 192000 Hz. Also in the Rubix control panel set you buffer as low as you can without your computer fucking up lol... I have mine on 2 so in Reaper it shows my latency at 5.3/5.2ms vs the default of 5 which gave me 22/30ms latency. I was able to set my buffer to 1 but my drums would crackle sometimes but the latency was 2.7 which was nice.

FAKA! wrote:

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:

FAKA! wrote:I may copy you and try these out. I upgraded my interface lately to a Roland Rubix24 and it has a built in hardware compressor/limiter which I think helps quite a bit... I think. I haven't really been A B'in it but I been liking my guitar tones more lately since using it. It also has a three way slider in the back for more adjustments to compression/limits.

Got my Rubix 24 the other day. Seems like a great piece of shit!

It was a bit frustrating at first as at least one of the links in the manual was spelled wrong and even after correcting it, it was page not found. Also had to restart my computer twice. Not a big deal, but it would've been nice to know that beforehand. Before the second restart it would not recognize my plugins so I just got a clean signal.

Anyway, are you using the limiter or compressor? I've been running the compressor about noon. It may have been beneficial to have the option of running both the comp and limit at the same time.

Sorry dude didn't see this post til just now. Grats on your new piece of shit!

I was using comp1 also at noon for awhile and only recently started trying the limiter...To me using comp1 made my guitar sound more aggressive and the limiter smoothed things out... not sure what I like more yet. Also if your using windows in the control panel/sound make sure your recording and playback is set higher than 44Hz. I use 24 bit 192000 Hz. Also in the Rubix control panel set you buffer as low as you can without your computer fucking up lol... I have mine on 2 so in Reaper it shows my latency at 5.3/5.2ms vs the default of 5 which gave me 22/30ms latency. I was able to set my buffer to 1 but my drums would crackle sometimes but the latency was 2.7 which was nice.

I've found the same thing with comp1 and the limiter and have been using comp1 only.

I changed my settings to what you recommended above. Do I also need to change the settings in my DAW to match the windows control panel settings?

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:I changed my settings to what you recommended above. Do I also need to change the settings in my DAW to match the windows control panel settings?

I'm not sure with Abbleton. In Reaper it shows you in the top right corner what your quality and latency is set at... and the only way I could change that setting was thru the Windows sound setting and it would show the new setting if I started a new session.

FAKA! wrote:

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:I changed my settings to what you recommended above. Do I also need to change the settings in my DAW to match the windows control panel settings?

I'm not sure with Abbleton. In Reaper it shows you in the top right corner what your quality and latency is set at... and the only way I could change that setting was thru the Windows sound setting and it would show the new setting if I started a new session.

Gotcha. I'll see what happens when I try to record this weekend.

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:

FAKA! wrote:

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:I changed my settings to what you recommended above. Do I also need to change the settings in my DAW to match the windows control panel settings?

I'm not sure with Abbleton. In Reaper it shows you in the top right corner what your quality and latency is set at... and the only way I could change that setting was thru the Windows sound setting and it would show the new setting if I started a new session.

Gotcha. I'll see what happens when I try to record this weekend.

Hows the Roland working for you? I just found a bug or something when loading guitar sim VST's. The moment I engage them I get this crazy high pitch squeal/hum... irritating the shit out of me... So far Roland support has been slow af...

FAKA! wrote:

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:

FAKA! wrote:

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:I changed my settings to what you recommended above. Do I also need to change the settings in my DAW to match the windows control panel settings?

I'm not sure with Abbleton. In Reaper it shows you in the top right corner what your quality and latency is set at... and the only way I could change that setting was thru the Windows sound setting and it would show the new setting if I started a new session.

Gotcha. I'll see what happens when I try to record this weekend.

Hows the Roland working for you? I just found a bug or something when loading guitar sim VST's. The moment I engage them I get this crazy high pitch squeal/hum... irritating the shit out of me... So far Roland support has been slow af...

After changing my settings in Windows and on my DAW things seemed to be ok, but it did take longer to render and upload the clips. Then I went back to play my clips thru my DAW and it was chugging, popping and a clicking. I ended up going back to the default settings.

As for the buffer rate, the lowest I can go is 4 with the Rubix. It's still a big improvement over 5. I really should've been paying more attention all along to latency in general because it's been fucking with my timing and I didn't realize it til recently.

I'm also running a 5 year old slow computer, bogged down with a bunch of crap. I've got another laptop that a buddy of mine just went through with the goal of optimizing it for recording. Haven't tried it yet, but I also have had problems on two different laptops with plugins bogging things down.

I just figured out it's not the VST's causing my issues, they just make it stand out more. If you get a chance try this with your Rubix and tell me if you get that crazy high pitch ring... load up a new track in your daw, point it to input one on the Rubix but don't plug anything into it, then crank the input one volume all the way up and turn up your headphone volume maybe halfway... make sure your not wearing your headphones lol.. Does yours make make a high pitched ringing? Clicking the HiZ button should also make it more pronounced.

I'm curious if other Rubix react the same way or is my shit defective...

FAKA! wrote:I just figured out it's not the VST's causing my issues, they just make it stand out more. If you get a chance try this with your Rubix and tell me if you get that crazy high pitch ring... load up a new track in your daw, point it to input one on the Rubix but don't plug anything into it, then crank the input one volume all the way up and turn up your headphone volume maybe halfway... make sure your not wearing your headphones lol.. Does yours make make a high pitched ringing? Clicking the HiZ button should also make it more pronounced.

I'm curious if other Rubix react the same way or is my shit defective...

I might not get around to any recording this week, but I'll check next weekend for sure and report back.

FAKA! wrote:I just figured out it's not the VST's causing my issues, they just make it stand out more. If you get a chance try this with your Rubix and tell me if you get that crazy high pitch ring... load up a new track in your daw, point it to input one on the Rubix but don't plug anything into it, then crank the input one volume all the way up and turn up your headphone volume maybe halfway... make sure your not wearing your headphones lol.. Does yours make make a high pitched ringing? Clicking the HiZ button should also make it more pronounced.

I'm curious if other Rubix react the same way or is my shit defective...

I just tried this and it's dead quiet, both in and out of record mode.