Line 6 3.7 manual Important Things to Know for Recording, Sample Rate and Bit Depth

Line 6 GearBox 3.7 – Driver Panel & Recording

Important Things to Know for Recording

This section will give you some pointers for using your Line 6 Hardware for recording, to help you get your brain wrapped around all that complex computer stuff your geeky friends talk about at parties. We’ve got even more info, including setup tips for specific audio programs and system tweaking tips in our GearBox Recording Setup Guide – its available free on the line6.com GearBox User Manuals page!

Sample Rate and Bit Depth

When you select a Sample Rate in your audio recording software, your Line 6 hardware’s audio driver will automatically match the sample rate setting. It is important to manually match the Bit Depth settings between your audio recording software and Line 6 audio driver as well. Here are a few things to check:

•Configure your recording program’s sample rate settings, and then confirm that your Line 6 hardware is running at the correct settings in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog (Windows) or in the Audio-MIDI Setup dialog (on Mac). It is best to always change the sample rate settings in your audio software. In most audio software you’ll want to make this setting as a Global setting or as a per project setting, and always before you start a new project for it to use a new sample rate.

•Typically, you can choose the 44,100 sample rate in your audio software for most projects. But if you have special requirements for your session, then you can alternatively choose 48,000, 88,200 or 96,000 Hz in your audio software and your Line 6 device will support any of these rates.

•For the Bit Depth on Windows systems, it is typically best choose the 24-bit option in your Windows audio software and to manually select 24-bit in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog if your Windows audio software supports this rate - most all audio recording software does these days. If your Windows audio software is set to 16-bit operation, then it is best to match this setting and choose the 16-bit option in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Settings dialog.

•For the Bit Depth on Mac systems, it is recommended you choose 24-bit in your recording software for all projects. As you’ll see in the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog, 24-bit is the fixed setting for both Audio Input and Output for all Line 6 devices.

GuitarPort Tracks Can’t Be Recorded

Attention GuitarPort Online members… Your guitar and/or other input signals (except for Monitor In) from your Line 6 device are the only signals routed to the Record Sends and made available to recording software. Tracks played via the GearBox program’s internal Player are not fed to the Record Sends, cannot be recorded to other programs, and not fed to the S/PDIF or AES/EBU digital outputs (for Line 6 devices that include digital outputs). This restriction on the Player audio routing is required in order for Line 6 to protect the copyrights of the musicians and other copyright owners that have licensed music for use in GuitarPort Online.

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