Just starting out, questions

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Audacity: 2.0
Windows Vista

So I have an electric guitar and a cable that connects from the guitar to my computer via USB.
It works fine, I can strum and my computer registers the noise and audacity can record it.

What I need help with is that it more or less sounds like an acoustic guitar and I’m not sure
what I need to do to get it to sound like an electric guitar. I’ve tried installing plugins
for it but I can’t find the plugins. I also installed something called VST bridge based on
a youtube tutorials instruction, but still nothing.

I’m pretty new to…basically everything. So right now all I have is an electric guitar,
a computer, the cord that connects them, and audacity.

The amp I got that came with my guitar is this tiny thing that has no method to connect it
to my computer so I was trying to use the computer as an amp.

Any info on how to do this all properly would be appreciated.

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Read this Tutorial and then let us know anything that you don’t understand or doesn’t work:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_connecting_an_instrument.html#guitar

You may need to connect the guitar to the mic port of the computer, not the line-in. This will make it record louder.

VST-bridge has no effect on VST plug-ins in Audacity 2.0 - see this page for how to make Audacity recognise new VST plug-ins:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#vst_install .


Gale

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Well the first guide said “If you’re using a guitar to USB then skip this” and I can get it to record fine all ready over usb.

The 2nd one was about installing VSTs and using the VST bridge which I all ready have the VST bridge but
the one electric guitar effect I found doesn’t show up even with all the scanning and placing it in the plugins
with the box checked like it said.

Are there other electric guitar plugins I can try? I use the wiki to find plugins but none of them were
obvious as to if I needed them.

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Please read the instructions more carefully - VST Bridge should not be used with Audacity 2.x

For recording electric guitar I prefer to use a microphone in front of the guitar cab so that the sound of the amp, cab, and any effects that are being used (such as overdrive) are recorded.