audio clips, recording my guitar

[eduardonwa]

hey, i found your project via stackexchange and i tried it to use it with my guitar amp connected to the computer, however the audio clips once i play it back, any recommendations? thanks.. hope you're still interested in the project hehe ! 👍

[WelliSolutions]

Hi. Did you connect it directly? Where did you connect it to? A PC has microphone input and line input. Microphone input should only be used for microphones. Line inputs use a 1V level. I am not familiar with guitar amplifiers, but if it has a line output, that should be fine. You might also want to have a look at the Windows settings. Sometimes, Windows has enabled "gain", which may cause distortion as well.

[WelliSolutions]

I'm also not really sure if this tool is the ideal for your purpose. I imagine that you want to record a complete song, and you know when you start and when you end. Audacity might be suited better.

[eduardonwa]

lol i wasn't expecting a response glad i did because i am used to having NVIDIA`s Shadowplay in the background when im gaming and so i find this software very neat. Yea you could be on to something since i am not recording in the typical plug-in-play-hit record, the flow kinda goes like this: I turn on my guitar amplifier, my guitar amp has a USB port and im using this cable so that both things are connected, on the Windows side it's getting recognized and if i wanted i could listen to my playing on my monitor speakers, however i don't choose to go this way because it's not ideal, at least not for me.

So after the computer receives the audio signal from the amp, i guess my amp has an audio interface built in because I could fire up something like Ableton Live and use this DAW to record anything. It's fine im not trying to record a song but more like bits and pieces of my guitar playing and when i feel like i hit something cool i'd just like to record that idea and then hopefully turn it into something else, a song a short guitar "lick" or whatever. This tool is exactly what I need because then i can expand those musical ideas and translate them into something else or just keep them as they are, i usually play to backing tracks on youtube so it is a perfect if i could record the guitar playing and the backing track that comes from Firefox. I take it all Windows sounds get recorded? Sorry for the long response but just wanted to explain my use cases and exactly how Im recording, at least i hope i cleared that up.