Recording Guitar questions

[Spud]

Ok - thanks for the info but I'm in the broke and cheap category so the wife won't approve of the $100.- investment. I promised when I started with this that it was to be very low impact money wise.

That is a nice looking card just from the write up's I've seen and just looking at the spec's and how it's built - seems like they know what they are doing.

Spud

[Spud]

Here's a link to some other recordings made with my current setup - haven't decided yet but may be getting the M-Audio one. These are basically recording I made that show the gating/swelling to more and lesser degrees. The SRV is the worst and prob the Beck and Prince are the best. What I did was turn up the gain on the line input (coming from the line out of the amp) to about 3 oclock and that seems to lessen the effect - also made the recordings "hotter". The first set was enhanced with Audacity effects - EQ and GVERB. It took a while to figure out how to set up the EQ and the GVERB was a pain to get it to sound half way decent. In fact, I put the GVERB on the backing track too so that it wasn't "dry" while the solo track had reverb - I figured it would sound weird.

First link for processed set:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0fa4 ... 8114394287

Second link for RAW set - these are in various stages of post processing (RAW to fully processed).


http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0fa4 ... 8114394287

If anyone has any tips on using the EQ or Verb or the other effects, that would great - I tried the Phaser but I wasn't happy with the results. Anyone have any effect(s) that they would recommend/think very higlhly of? Oh, I also tried the WAH but it was also not cutting it for me - or rather, I didn't get a good sound from it so I abandoned it.

Later,

Spud

[steve]

I recommend using the "Duplicate and mix together" method of applying G-Verb, as described here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=GVerb

Not had time to listen to your latest clips, but generally with G-Verb, reduce the reverb time much lower than the default - around 1 to 2 seconds is usually good.