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by Ibanez1018
Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:02 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Help recording guitar with Audacity!
Replies: 5
Views: 2528

Re: Help recording guitar with Audacity!

MIDI is machine control. It's not a sound signal. It's a Windows Laptop, right? Some of them have provision to switch one audio input from sensitive, mono, Mic-In to high-level, stereo, Line-In. Consult your instructions. Most don't. The cheapest, good quality way out is a UCA-202 USB sound card. h...
by Ibanez1018
Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:01 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Help recording guitar with Audacity!
Replies: 5
Views: 2528

Re: Help recording guitar with Audacity!

All of the signals in your equipment chain are somewhere around "Line" level. The Microphone input on your computer will be for "Microphone Level" signals (about 1000 x smaller than Line level), so attempting to "DI" (plug Directly In) your guitar equipment will massively overload the microphone in...
by Ibanez1018
Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:01 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Help recording guitar with Audacity!
Replies: 5
Views: 2528

Help recording guitar with Audacity!

I've REALLY wanted to record for a while now but I just don't know how to do it. Can somebody please give me a detailed description of how to do this? Here's my setup: Peavey Vypyr 15 amp, Floor Pod Plus effects, and a Fender Strat guitar. I have my input on my amp plugged into my effects pedal with...