General question to understand if I am doing something fantastically wrong or not…
Got all my tracks mapped to their own track in Logic, and finding the mix to just be completely different night & day vs listening via the headphones jack on the back of the DN2. Actually using the same headphones, unplugged from DN2 into my Mac.
A couple of the tracks sound nearly muted and I need to jack up the track level / amp volume on DN2 & gain/EQ in Logic just to get it close.
Is this an artifact of FX ? The tracks most impacted by this have heavy reverb&chorus.
If you’re sending individual tracks via overbridge and recording stems in the daw, what you’re getting are dry tracks. Since the effects are send effects they all go to the same place in the device mixer which overbridge bypasses. OB instead routes the entirety of the effects to a single track which you can also capture in your daw.
Your options are to record dry and add new effects in the daw, or to recombine your audio stems with the effects stem which has the entire wet mix. The final option, such as it were, is to record individual tracks one at a time via the usb stereo track for the main outs, as that is the only track which gets a wet mix and applies effects, however as a whole, it will likely sound different if (for example) reverb is on multiple tracks, the sound of those tracks in the reverb you hear now will be interacting which is different than 3 tracks of audio recorded with reverb individually then combined.
Overbridge does come out at something like -12db so if it’s not below that then it’s probably normal. As far as I know, hardware track levels (the level adjustment I mean) do not impact the stem volume, only things like amp volume or compressor volume on dt would impact the actual gain level, however on the stereo track, which also gets the effects, track levels do impact the stereo track mix.
If I’m understanding correctly then what you’re hearing might be normal, but just depends on how exaggerated the volume discrepancy is between normal overbridge levels which are quiet, and your actual levels which may be quieter in which case we would need to ascertain why.