Moog voyager to fireface800 help

[Dmalivenow]

moog voyager rme to fireface 800... do i need a DI or preamp? if so, whats a good DI or preamp for synths?

[polyslax]

Nope. Just plug it in and go.

[YILA]

Look on the front of your Fireface.. 4 preamps.. and a DI.

[remcoy]

You need to go buy a recording 101 book before worrying about what a good DI or Pre for synths is...
Start from the basics. you're working backwards.

[Dmalivenow]

the reason i ask is because the audio outs on synths are unbalanced, and there is only one hi-z input on the fireface, which uses some time of amp modeling i understand? btw i dont have either of these products, just trying to get advice.

[YILA]

It's not really amp modelling it distorts in a nice analogue way and you can turn all the speaker sim and limiter off..

All the preamps on the front are balanced or unbalanced.. all the rear are balanced only, or maybe they all are both.. but the rear has no volume, which you need because analogue synths have some serious output

[Dmalivenow]

OK SO a hypothetical setup would inlude plugging a guitar into the xlr input, and two stynths into the 2 of the preamps on the front? i dont need any DI's for the synths necessarily?

[YILA]

No you can't plug a guitar into an XLR! I think as said before you might want to look up some recording basics before you blow 1k on a ff800

all the preamps on the front take line or XLR.. all 4 of them.. then there is a DI input which takes guitar or W/E..

[polyslax]

Line input 1 on the front is great for guitar.

I always ran my Voyager into line inputs on the back. Never had an issue with levels.

[Dmalivenow]

sorry i didnt mean xlr, i meant the hi-z input. man im sure i look hella noobish right now but whatever i need to learn somehow. ive never recorded audio before, just worked with vsti's and such.
so hi-z is for guitar inputs. xlr is mic cables. can someone explain the difference between balanced and unbalanced?

[YILA]

Line input 1 on the front is great for guitar.

I always ran my Voyager into line inputs on the back. Never had an issue with levels.

I just think it's better practice to have your synth on full then control the level of the in's on the front... Are the back ones unbalaned and balanced?

No I won't tell you the difference..

[Dmalivenow]

haha your so cool. thanks