Basic 4k question.

Is there anyway to record into the 4k without using its preamp? If not, how nice is it? Because I got a pretty nice preamp already.

It's clean if you did use it, but alternatively you can just load samples from a USB stick or transfer them via AKsys to your hard drive.

Edit: Did you mean the dedicated phono preamp? I'm not sure if using the regular sample inputs bypasses it...

Yeah, meant the dedicated one. I thought about just using usb. But is it true that the machine freezes if you load full songs to it like that?

On my 1000, sometimes I would take a loop, record it in to my 404 so I could play with the effects, and then record it back into my 1000. Can I not do that with the 4k? Or what if I wanted to record in with my DAP?

Reason I'm asking is because I've tried to record something from my DAP through my preamp to my 1000 before and it sounded like shit. I'm concerned that I might run into the same issue being that the 4k has a dedicated preamp on it.

Real distorted, but I had the record gain all the way down.