Hi folks. I've been trying to do some research on the matter. It seems to be one of those things, where there's so much information out there on the topic that you can't find what you're looking for. At least its the case for me. Anyways....
So I'm running my electric guitar more or less straight into my amp right now (with some pedals on true bypass). Then I have a sennheiser dynamic mic a few inches from the grill, covered with a reflexion filter in the front. I also put some more sound absorption on the back of the amp, too. The mic then runs to my MOTU ultralite audio interface, then into Logic on my macbook. I then turn my amp up quite loud, until the buzzing sound is obviously too much for a decent recording. And I hit the record button.
When I don't have the audio interface's preamps on at all, the signal coming into Logic is ridiculously quiet. When I do turn them up, enough to hear the recorded guitar even half-decently, there is an unacceptably loud hiss, that masks over the entire song.
So I'm stumped, don't know what to do. I can't turn up my amp any louder without too much noise, can't turn up the preamps without too much noise, and there's no known source of too much noise otherwise that I see (I have this same situation with two very different guitars, so the problem isn't with them).
Any ideas would be HUGELY appreciated! thanks folks.
-Giacomo
So I'm running my electric guitar more or less straight into my amp right now (with some pedals on true bypass). Then I have a sennheiser dynamic mic a few inches from the grill, covered with a reflexion filter in the front. I also put some more sound absorption on the back of the amp, too. The mic then runs to my MOTU ultralite audio interface, then into Logic on my macbook. I then turn my amp up quite loud, until the buzzing sound is obviously too much for a decent recording. And I hit the record button.
When I don't have the audio interface's preamps on at all, the signal coming into Logic is ridiculously quiet. When I do turn them up, enough to hear the recorded guitar even half-decently, there is an unacceptably loud hiss, that masks over the entire song.
So I'm stumped, don't know what to do. I can't turn up my amp any louder without too much noise, can't turn up the preamps without too much noise, and there's no known source of too much noise otherwise that I see (I have this same situation with two very different guitars, so the problem isn't with them).
Any ideas would be HUGELY appreciated! thanks folks.
-Giacomo