Reduced sound quality between playback and "real sound"

Hi,

I notice that when I play trough my line6 xt pro direct to my interface, I get a decent good and clear sound coming out of my monitor speakers.
However, if I record this and then listen to the playback, I notice that the guitar tone are very high on the mids, and not so clear and airy in the high frequency as the sound that I hear in real time while playing.
I record at 24bit 48khz.

Anyone else experience this?

Hi, thanks for the reply but I'm not sure I understood the answer. I connect my guitar rig to the input 1&2 on my interface (motu896mk3). In sonar I choose the input directly from the motu ins, mono or 1&2 if I need a stereo track. So the sound is the same through my monitors all the time and also even if I'm just playing with my PC of.

Hmmmm, ok so that means that the weak spot can be the AD DA converters in my interface?

I came here to figure out the same thing. I'm monitoring from SONAR and for me there's a clear degradation from the monitored signal to the recorded one. I guess there could be some resampling of the signal from the one you hear while monitoring to the one that is actually recorded and played back later.
 
Anyone knows if SONAR handles internally high quality sampling to do the math on the signal that later could be downgraded to match the audio driver settings?
 
I use a Radial J48 --> A&H ZED R16 --firewire-ASIO 48/24-> NI Guitar Rig 5.
 
Any help would be appreciated.
 

What you hear is what you recorded. Either there is something with the direct monitoring issue or your mind/ears are not hearing it the same while recording verses playback. At these sample rates and so on there is no difference that your ears should be able to discern.

One thing that might be happening is this. Unless you use headphones with good external noise reduction or your monitors are loud enough to completely drown out the acoustic sound a guitar, even a solid body, makes when played then when you are playing you hear a mix of the amplified guitar and the acoustic sound.
 
On playback you only hear the (recorded) amplified sound, which will be different to the combination (acoustic) guitar+monitors. With my guitars at least, the tracked sound is generally a bit less bright and a bit less open than what I hear when playing with monitors/amp at low volumes.
 
If you're using an amp emulator (or an amp at low volumes) how you set the tone control(s) might also be affected by what you hear of the guitar acoustically, and when that acoustic sound is missing things are no longer set correctly to give the sound you want.

Thanks for following up with the forum to let us know. Glad you got it figured out.