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skitzzz
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I recorded a guitar track directly to my computer using soundforge 6. Just straight thru my FX pedal to the soundcard. Yea, I know it's pretty cheap, but it's what I got. Mostly just to document new ideas and riffs, and to learn more about recording and digital signal processing. I have my pedal's volume set to %50 on the knob (which is quite loud) and my line in recording volume set to very low to where I get max level with no clipping. I use the DC offset option and it goes to about L:85 and R:-120. This is the best sound that I can get so far, but there's a little problem. For the 'silence' I get a good general Inf. wave, but for the loud part I noticed that it looks like there's a major DC offset occuring. I don't know exactly how to word it, but the positive peaks appear to average 2.5dB and the negative, 6dB according to the scale to the left - making it 'shifted up' like DC offset. It sounds alright to me, but I *know* it could stand to improve. Could someone please explain to me what's going on here and what I can do to fix it, other than buying a mixer or some other kind of expensive box? Should I even worry about it? I do plan on putting eq and compressor and noise gate, etc. to clean it up for when I send it to my friends. There's a pic attatched so u can see.