User guide

Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Chapter 1: Introduction
Quick Start Instructions
You’ve Got Eleven Rack, You’ve
Got Your Guitar. What’s Next?
Eleven Rack is a high-quality audio and MIDI in-
terface, with classic guitar amp and effects pro-
cessing built right in. This means that Eleven
Rack is useful when recording, gigging, and
practicing.
At home or in the studio, you can plug guitars,
microphones, and other instruments into
Eleven Rack, and record directly into a Pro Tools
session on your computer. You can use the amp
and effects modelling capabilities of Eleven Rack
to process signals as you record them, or to pro-
cess previously recorded audio.
When away from the computer, you can use
Eleven Rack as a standalone guitar processor,
sending classic guitar tones straight to a venue’s
PA system, to a guitar amp, or both. You can also
simply plug in a pair of headphones and prac-
tice by yourself.
You’re probably excited to start playing with
your new Eleven Rack right away, so let’s get
started!
To play guitar with Eleven Rack:
1 Connect outputs from Eleven Rack to your
monitors or headphones:
• If you’re connecting to self-powered studio
monitors, a stereo power amp and speakers,
or mixer inputs, use the Main outputs.
• If you’re using a pair of headphones, con-
nect them to the Phones output.
Eleven Rack Main outputs (back panel)
The Main outputs are line-level, rather than
mic-level outputs. When connecting to a
mixer or other device with microphone pre-
amps, it is best to use the device’s line-level
inputs, if provided. If only inputs with pre-
amps are available, adjust the preamp gain
on each channel to avoid clipping.
Phones output (front panel)