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Instrument Input and Reamping 116
floor of the recording will be significantly amplified. The INPUT LED provides a further gauge for correct leveling: the
LED should flash yellow when you hit the strings hard - try to avoid deep orange or red color.
Now, record the pure guitar. You can still monitor the processed (amped) guitar sound via the MAIN OUTPUT, which
will be unaffected by a possible latency of your recording device (digital audio workstation).
 Step three: reamping input connections
Connect the analog or S/PDIF output of your recording device to the RETURN/RETURN 1 or S/PDIF INPUT of the
PROFILER.
Enter the Input Section and set “Input Source” to either “Return Input Reamp” or “S/PDIF Input Reamp”. If you have
already recorded the DI signal, play it back now and feed it to the PROFILER.
You don’t have to unplug your guitar from the INPUT. It will no longer be routed to the signal flow of the PROFILER,
due to the “Reamp” Input Source settings - however, it still feeds the selected DI output and thus the input of your
recording device.
Take care that the MAIN OUTPUT or the S/PDIF OUTPUT is routed back to your recording device and select an
appropriate Output Source e. g. “Master Stereo”, to record the processed guitar sound.
As soon as you arm a track on your recording device, you will hear your guitar being fed through the device and
back into the reamp input. This routing might introduce some latency from your recording device; to avoid this, set
“Input Source” back to “Front Input” for as long as you are recording.
For all PROFILER variants except Stage both the balanced TRS input and the XLR input are available as the analog
RETURN.
 Step four: reamping input leveling
For an optimum signal-to-noise ratio, leveling the reamping input is just as critical as leveling the pure instrument
output. The leveling is done by the output level of the recording device; it cannot be adjusted in the PROFILER. The
S/PDIF signal can only be adjusted in the sending device by definition.