I can't blow my soundcard by just plugging the guitar straight into it right?
Should be OK, I haven't recorded in awhile but that's what I was doing. Guitar straight into the soundcard with an adaptor on the end of the chord so it will fit in the soundcard.
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you will be good to go. the signal from a guitar pickup is, I forget the right electrical phrase, tiny. that is why we have to have an amplifier.
whenever you hear or read the word Line Voltage it means strong current, like from an outlet or off an aux from your amp.
never use Line Voltage into a soundcard; that will fry things.
OK, I have audacity installed. What do I have to do to start recording?
Before you start to use Audacity , begin by playing around with windows sound controls. Connect the guitar to soundcards Line input or Mic input and select mic or line input in the sound controls and change input och output levels and listen to the sound of the guitar. Is it loud enough , distorted , too low etc. I think that you will find that using an electric guitar pickup on the line input will give a to low level and using the electric on a mic input may give a too high and distorted sound.
Tanglewood TW28STE (Shadow P7 EQ) acoustic
Yamaha RGX 320FZ electric guitar/Egnater Tweaker 15 amp.
Yamaha RBX 270 bass/Laney DB 150 amp.
http://www.soundclick.com/kalleinsweden
Ok, got it working. Recording some stuff. This is pretty fun, but is there any way that I can add a distortion effect to the stuff that I have recorded?
Yes its possible to add effects to your recorded track.
But you need to import VST Effect Plugins into Audacity and use a VST adapter SW.
But this is the weakest parts in Audacity and It is not easy to use VSP Plugins in Audacity.
Tanglewood TW28STE (Shadow P7 EQ) acoustic
Yamaha RGX 320FZ electric guitar/Egnater Tweaker 15 amp.
Yamaha RBX 270 bass/Laney DB 150 amp.
http://www.soundclick.com/kalleinsweden
What kind of amp do you have? If you have a "Line Out" jack on your amp you can hook that up to your sound card.Its would sound better.
This old thread may help also.
https://www.guitarnoise.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19820
K, so i recorded two songs. Actually one and a half, one of them isn't fininshed. Tried to do some heavy post hardcore stuff. Didn't come out so good. Spent about five hours total, recorded it once, it sucked, recorded it again with some changes, sucked less. The other song, kinda slow, scary, came out a million times better. Although it's not finished it sounds pretty good except for the numerous mistakes that I made.
Thats the beauty of digital recording, you can edit out the mistakes and punch in the new parts :lol:
What kind of amp do you have? If you have a "Line Out" jack on your amp you can hook that up to your sound card.Its would sound better.
I have a line six amp. It does have a line out jack, but I heard that if I plugged my amp into the soundcard that it would blow it. is this true?
Don,t confuse "Line Out" with "speaker out" That would start a fire :twisted: I have a Berhringer GMX 212 and I use the line out to plug into my mixer. I suggest you have a mixer, but you should be able to go into your sound card, just start with the vol. down. Here is what the line 6 "spider" ad says
"Ins & Outs
When you're playing with your band on stage just drag the Line 6 Spider III on stage and crank it up. When it comes time to record, use the headphone/direct out and plug it straight into the mixing board for world-class POD 2.0 direct tone used in pro studios and stages everywhere! You can also use the same out with headphones for practicing in your bedroom. Want to play along with your favorite songs? Plug into the CD/MP3 input and you're good to go."
You can also get a cheap mixer that will do the job for under $50.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Behringer-Xenyx-802?sku=631263
With the mixer you can also mic your amp ( I like this way better) and it has phantom power so you can use a condenser mic later. :D
Well, I don't have fifty dollars to spend right now :cry: . I'll try using my amp. I'm pretty sure that I know which one to plug into because, the speakers are plugged into the speaker out plug and the other one is the one that i plug my guitar into.
Well, I downloaded a VST to add distortion. Called Camel Crusher and it works pretty well. It gives a really good overdrive sounding distortion. I was wondering if anyone knew of any VST's that are free and that are less overdrivey if you get what I mean.
