HI Peeps, i just registered in this forum to see if there is anyone out there who would take some time to answer a bunch of admittedly mostly stupid questions.
So i have been doing folk, alt and punk music for 15 years now, playing live, playing in bands, playing in my room,.... i have wanted to record forever but im kind of a dreamer and very slow when it comes to realising projects so it took me years to find out that music is made in studios and with computers and even longer to find out that there is actually a thing called DAW. so i got myself some audacity (im chronically broke) and a friend gave me a 60D machine that i could plug into my guitar and connect it the computer via USB. that thing has some nobs for volume and stuff and i even found out that i have to activate the +48V thing for acoustic input. now that machine has to input plugs which i like to use simultaniously to record voice and guitar. i recently moved to another country with that machine in my bag and over there i also bought a new computer. since then, i havent been able to use it, whenever i plug it in and open audacity there is no signal at all or just pure noise. i tried using different cables, switched plugs and everything, i even opened the case and checked for lose cables or broken solder joints. but to be honest im quite sure the problem is either the software configurations or a mistake from my side because every once in a while i manage to get a signal (although if i get a signal its always stereo but with both chanels recording the same input which is only more confusing). So yeah, that audio interface is a swiss sonic UA-2X2 from Thomann. One more thing, i seem to be magically immune to vocabulary so a lot of these technical terms are very hard to understand for me. ive tried to find a post in here that matches my topic but didnt have any luck (maybe because of the technical terms that i encountered). Also if anyone takes the patience and try to help me out, i have like a miollion more questions about plug ins and stereo and background noise and mixxing and so on but i think this on is enough for now. thank you for any hints in the right direction, i appreciate any kind of input!
UPDATE: After your insightful input, i tried using it with Reaper and i also tried changing the settings in audacity but both didnt work.
So i have been doing folk, alt and punk music for 15 years now, playing live, playing in bands, playing in my room,.... i have wanted to record forever but im kind of a dreamer and very slow when it comes to realising projects so it took me years to find out that music is made in studios and with computers and even longer to find out that there is actually a thing called DAW. so i got myself some audacity (im chronically broke) and a friend gave me a 60D machine that i could plug into my guitar and connect it the computer via USB. that thing has some nobs for volume and stuff and i even found out that i have to activate the +48V thing for acoustic input. now that machine has to input plugs which i like to use simultaniously to record voice and guitar. i recently moved to another country with that machine in my bag and over there i also bought a new computer. since then, i havent been able to use it, whenever i plug it in and open audacity there is no signal at all or just pure noise. i tried using different cables, switched plugs and everything, i even opened the case and checked for lose cables or broken solder joints. but to be honest im quite sure the problem is either the software configurations or a mistake from my side because every once in a while i manage to get a signal (although if i get a signal its always stereo but with both chanels recording the same input which is only more confusing). So yeah, that audio interface is a swiss sonic UA-2X2 from Thomann. One more thing, i seem to be magically immune to vocabulary so a lot of these technical terms are very hard to understand for me. ive tried to find a post in here that matches my topic but didnt have any luck (maybe because of the technical terms that i encountered). Also if anyone takes the patience and try to help me out, i have like a miollion more questions about plug ins and stereo and background noise and mixxing and so on but i think this on is enough for now. thank you for any hints in the right direction, i appreciate any kind of input!
UPDATE: After your insightful input, i tried using it with Reaper and i also tried changing the settings in audacity but both didnt work.
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