how do you use audacity to aply gain ,distortion , etc

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how do you use audacity to aply gain ,distortion , etc

Post by nono54 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:58 pm

hi there,
I would like to use audacity to use my pc as a guitar amp
but the only sound comming is a clean sound and I would like to have it more hard rock etc....
thank you in advance
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Re: how do you use audacity to aply gain ,distortion , etc

Post by kozikowski » Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:26 pm

Audacity will not do anything in real time. It's a post production tool.

Record or capture a performance clean and then apply filters to it after lunch to make it sound like you want.
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Re: how do you use audacity to aply gain ,distortion , etc

Post by nono54 » Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:46 am

thanks
any program would apply the effect pre- recording?

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Re: how do you use audacity to aply gain ,distortion , etc

Post by steve » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:05 pm

IMO the best way is to use a guitar amp (optionally with fx pedals) and record it with a microphone.
Other methods include using a hardware amp-simulator (such as the Line 6 Pod)
or using VST effects in a suitable VST host program (such as http://www.audioforums.com/forums/archi ... -8327.html )
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