How to run Guitar Pedals to your DAW: Tips, Tricks, and a Digital/Analog Shootout!
Is it safe to plug guitar pedals into an Audio Interface? What you need to know! Also, a look at the best order to put your pedals in, and a Tubescreamer shootout, using the Joyo Vintage Overdrive against the Cory Wong Neural DSP!
We also take a look at the Archer Rockway, a Klon clone with a built in EQ, and the Wampler Terraform, a modulation FX pedal. Tim also tries to quickly come up with bootleg versions of Jimi Hendrix’ Izabella (Univibe) and Eddie Van Halen’s Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love (Flanger) so he won’t get in copyright trouble.
We run everything through a Focusrite Scarlett and into Ableton Live 11. But this video is for anyone, regardless of what interface or DAW you are using.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:26 – Can You Use Pedals?
00:48 – Best Order for Pedals?
01:27 – The Pedals!
01:59 – Cory Wong Neural DSP
02:29 – Archer Rockway Demo
02:45 – Modulation Effects
03:18 – Tubescreamer Shootout
04:34 – Reverbs and Delays
05:05 – Valhalla Supermassive
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Super clear and informative for someone who’s new to using an interface. Thanks!!
I have a Quantum 2626, i will experiment with the line returns… i have to find a good signal flow that is instant and is a mixture of pedals + plugin in the DAW… but for now i don't have any pedals ahahahahah
I'm just worried because most likely i will want to route the signal out of the interface into some pedals again and back in the interface, but from what i understand the output(s) of the interface are line level, and not instrument level… so they are much higher, will they distort the signal?
Holy reverb
So my pedalboard is based around the Tonex Pedal.
I have running 3 Pedal before ( drive, Fuzz and the Line6 HXone) and three afterwards ( Chorus, Vibrato, Source Audio delay/Reverb)..
I tried to run the whole board directly into my interface and its not working well .. Therss a lot of delay and also the sound is kind of weird…
I really would love to be able record it that way…
What happens if you accidentally enable phantom power with pedals running into the mic/instr in on the interface?
Do you have to use a DAW amp or can you just add your own amp to the end of the effects pedal chain and then go out of the amp and into the Audio Interface?
Just came across this video. I use Bias FX 2 Mobile into the Focusrite 8i6.I'd like to use my Strymon Timeline and Bigsky. Can these be plugged into interface, then everything sent to front of house? Thanks in advance!
Appreciate the fantastic video! Recently got my first interface. Planning to integrate my OD pedals into my setup: guitar > bd2w > ts808 > passive DI > Scarlett Solo > Ableton Live > DSP and Valhalla. Concerned about tone quality since im using the DSP’s built-in compressor which is after my OD pedals. Is there a workarounds for this? Thank you.
Great video!
So if I want to plug (one a a time) a wah or univibe into interface/console input on a channel where I have for example STL tones, then it will work?
Thanks for this. I just got an interface and last night used it for the first time. I used one of my reverb pedals just for kicks and it didn’t really sound bad at all.
Everyone on YT makes it sound difficult. I don’t know if I’d run my whole pedalboard into my interface, but I’ve spent a lot of time getting used to my gear and shoving it to the side now feels like I’m wasting the time and effort I spent with them.????
YOOOOOOOOOOOO a Peavey Horizon II!!! One of the best guitars ever made!
If i knew this 10 years ago when i first started guitar, I'd have 100s of pedals….
Here is a subject matter: How To Make Amp Sims Sound More Realistic | https://youtu.be/1HueP0DAuM8?si=RQTW-wAQiy5jhNka
I have no experience with audio interfaces. I will be receiving my first focusrite 4i4. I've been having a hard time finding out how to connect my pedalboard to it. I just saw one video where it says you can't just go straight into it and need a reamp box? I'm so confused!
would the same thing work with a MFX like a GT100?
I’m trying to run my Steve Harris Signature Bass Pedal through a basic focusrite interface and run it through a basic preset cab on reaper. Is there anything specific I have to do? I’m trying to get a gritty dirty bass sound to cut through the mix.
I also want to plug in my distortion pedal and just use cabs in Neural DSP, which sounds great. But when I search the right way to hook up your pedals to DAW is with re-amp box, for the highest quality. What do you think? Do you have one?
Excellent video, but I'm still unsure whether I should connect my pedals into the LINE or into the INSTRUMENT (hi-z) input of my Scarlett. Would you mind explaing which one you use, and why?
what's the song in the beginning?
So sick of 'How-To' videos that do not explain/demo a damn thing…or worse, do so horribly bad. So much bad content/clickbait!
This video just autoplayed while I was doing other things in the room, I eventually looked up and saw that beautiful little super strat, amazing.
What is the body coated with – how do you keep it healthy?
Thankyou for being straight up..I watched so many videos that after 15 minutes didn’t really give a definitive answer…
Hi! good video. So basically all you need is to connect your pedals into the interface and that's it?
I have a question. Is there any way to modify the chain order of the mix between the physical pedals and the chain in the daw? For example, i have a physical compressor pedal. But i want to use it AFTER an Eq Plugin that is in the daw. Is that possible? thanks!
Thanks for saying what I was looking for immediately. I watched 10 videos before this that never flat out said it's ok or not.