fritsthegirl
Taste of home
OK, after dissing newbs for buying too much stuff, I'm about to ask a question about I think I need to buy next to make what I've bought work better. I haven't bought anything I didn't need or want. I'm just not sure if I'm doing something wrong with the wiring, or missing the right bit of equipment.
I have an electric guitar and a fender amp with a usb connection, and some software called Amplitube. I think this software basically duplicates the amp's modelling settings, but via the computer.
I haven't really played around with it because whenever I try to listen to the amp via the computer I get the highly annoying sound of my laptop's battery supply in there. I can record OK, and the sound seems to be clean, but the latency and noise is pretty bad. Too bad to use. I use Asio4all in Reaper, have the input set to the amp, the output to the interface.
I'm back to using the Behringer Xenyx interface instead of the personus Audiobox I inherited from Jonny, simply because the behringer has an input connection, and the Audio box doesn't. So I've got the line in on that thing running to the headphone socket in the amp. Both are plugged in via usb, but I guess that's obvious since I'm able to select them in reaper.
Mostly I'll be doing my proper guitar recordings by micing the amp, which is why I bought the amp in the first place. But I'd quite like to figure out if there is way to record the amp via the computer. Without all the hissing and humming.
Is a preamp what I need? Is all that noise just something inherent on a usb interface when you're picking up a signal from an amp? Or is it because I'm using a laptop?
Sorry if it's a messy question. Hopefully I've given enough detail as to what the problem is.
Faithfully yours, Newb.
I have an electric guitar and a fender amp with a usb connection, and some software called Amplitube. I think this software basically duplicates the amp's modelling settings, but via the computer.
I haven't really played around with it because whenever I try to listen to the amp via the computer I get the highly annoying sound of my laptop's battery supply in there. I can record OK, and the sound seems to be clean, but the latency and noise is pretty bad. Too bad to use. I use Asio4all in Reaper, have the input set to the amp, the output to the interface.
I'm back to using the Behringer Xenyx interface instead of the personus Audiobox I inherited from Jonny, simply because the behringer has an input connection, and the Audio box doesn't. So I've got the line in on that thing running to the headphone socket in the amp. Both are plugged in via usb, but I guess that's obvious since I'm able to select them in reaper.
Mostly I'll be doing my proper guitar recordings by micing the amp, which is why I bought the amp in the first place. But I'd quite like to figure out if there is way to record the amp via the computer. Without all the hissing and humming.
Is a preamp what I need? Is all that noise just something inherent on a usb interface when you're picking up a signal from an amp? Or is it because I'm using a laptop?
Sorry if it's a messy question. Hopefully I've given enough detail as to what the problem is.
Faithfully yours, Newb.