Recording and online collaborating again! Focusrite, JamKazam, Quilter Interblock 45

[Jipes***]

I try the online Jamming during the pandemic but quickly let go since the sound was thin and horribly crispy, couldn't really get something decent and didn't want to spend too much time on figuring out what was wrong. I try to go with my interface and some pedals but nothing really worked properly. Sorry that I can't help

[sunvalleylaw]

I try the online Jamming during the pandemic but quickly let go since the sound was thin and horribly crispy, couldn't really get something decent and didn't want to spend too much time on figuring out what was wrong. I try to go with my interface and some pedals but nothing really worked properly. Sorry that I can't help

Well, I will be the experiment for us then!

I agree with your assessment of the online sound from some pedals and my interface. Too sterile, flat, all the touch and control of my favorite dirt pedals (Catalinbread Formula No. 5, and 55, I have both) was gone. Normally, that pedal gives nice organic support, just below break up, at low volume, in a tweed style, and then when you dial up volume, it kicks it into overdrive. Direct in, it just sounded harsh and flat.

I guess the signal needs to go into something with a speaker cabinet emulation for it to work well at all. And I am looking at those options. The Quilterblock Interblock 45 has some options and possibilities, and can also be used as an amph head. So kinda leaning toward that one. A friend of mine, and guitar pro, from another forum uses a similar thing from Quilter, without the included amph, and he sounded good on Jamkazam. His is the Quilter Phantom Block pedal. That was what got me listening to the Interblock 45, which has similar options, though instrument cable/line out rather than XLR out, both can go to the front of the house, board, or interface. And the Interblock 45 can go out to a speaker cabinet.

So leaning toward that. Another option would be a cabinet simulating or IR type pedal. Would take care of the flatness in the signal going to the interface, but does not have the amph option.