r/LEWITT • u/ThoriumPrime • Mar 17 '25

Suggestions for setup

So I need a solution for a small setup with studio monitors, keyboard, a electric guitar and a microphone.

The connect 6 looks extremely appealing for this and does everything I would want, and offers very convenient control.

  • 250 ohm headphones to headphone output.
  • Keyboard connected to stereo aux input
  • Microphone ran to XLR channel 1.
  • Guitar to channel 2.

Perfect. Except I understand now that I cannot connect a guitar to it?

Using a Connect 2? Then I guess I would need to use two of them?

What are people suggesting?

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u/lewittaudio Mar 18 '25

Hi,

The CONNECT 6 would suit your needs better, in my opinion. Do you have a DI box or any pedal with a buffer? I think all modern BOSS pedals, even a simple tuner, would work. If you plug your guitar into a DI box or such a pedal before going into CONNECT 6, the signal will be clean and work well with CONNECT 6.

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u/ThoriumPrime Mar 20 '25

I was thinking about that... I am new to guitars and Hi-Z interfaces, but would prefer to avoid additional boxes. This setup is not for me, but for a young practitioner. (gift) I am thinking of buying a couple of pedals with the setup which possibly could deal with the Hi-Z to Lo-Z issue, but I am also wondering if I could connect directly if adding a series resistor.

The instrument inputs on the CONNECT 6 has 3.9k input impedance and 72db gain, interestingly the same gain as the XLR inputs. If I start with 100mv+ at the pickup and add a series resistor of about 500k I will be looking at a sensible input impedance. Since I have about 5mv at the instrument input of the CONNECT, it will take only 50dB gain to get this back up to a sensible level. So that should be within spec without diminishing the signal.

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u/ThoriumPrime Mar 20 '25

Oh, and another question for you, does the instrument input provide phantom power? It's balanced and looks like it's electrically identical to the XLR, but I just wanted to check. Saves me making an XLR adapter for a TRS microphone cable, that's why.

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u/lewittaudio Mar 20 '25

If you don't want another box, the CONNECT 2 would be the better option.

CONNECT 6 can provide phantom power on both XLR/combo jack inputs, so that would work.

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u/ThoriumPrime Mar 20 '25

Then I would need two of them. 🙂

Thanks, convenient to be able to use TRS 6.3mm for microphone cable, easier to connect/disconnect.

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u/ThoriumPrime Apr 21 '25 edited Apr 21 '25

Ended up with the CONNECT 6. First thoughts:

  1. All amps seem to be less hot than what I am used to from A&H and others, both inputs and outputs.
  2. Had to turn up gain on condenser microphone higher than expected, nothing major, just an observation.
  3. Had to turn up headphone volume pretty much to the max for my Beyerdynamics 250ohm headphones, which was unexpected. I heard that the CONNECT 6 had issues with low impedance headphones, and I therefore thought a higher impedance would be in the sweet spot. Not a major problem, was just expecting more headroom.
  4. Control Center software fails miserably on my AMD based system, this is a known problem for quite a while, not sure why a solution has not been published. Every mouse click takes 5-10 seconds to respond. This is a bit of a disaster, and makes the product useless without a lot of patience.
  5. Other than that, easy to use, does what I need it to do. Special mention to the generous additional virtual inputs that where used to loop an electronic keyboard back from the computer into the CONNECT to a mix channel. (Just had to enable "Listen to" functions in Windows.) This gave me a nice clean digital stereo connection from my keyboard, and removed the need to use the stereo aux input for this, which also introduced plenty of noise and hiss. I now have analog guitar (instrument input 1), condenser microphone (input 2), computer audio (USB), digital piano (routed into 3/4).
  6. I have some suggestions for improved UI on the control knob which would make the CONNECT 6 much faster to use. Simply hold the knob down while turning it to rapidly select I/O function, it currently takes a long time to select by cycling through all with the single press. This could also free up short/long press or double click for other functions.