Guitar input into an Emu or Mixer?

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I was wondering if anyone can tell me whether it is possible to put an electric guitar straight into the emu 1820 or a yamaha mg 10/2 mixer?

I tried putting an electric guitar and an electro acoustic straight into the microphone socket of my pc via a 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor. It worked but had huge amounts of hiss in the background? Since I understand little about the sound outputted frm a guitar can someone please explain this to me, is there a sound converter needed to get rid of all the hissing and clean up the sound?

Many thanks
James
 
I have plugged an electric guitar straight into a mixer to get that "revolution" sound. You should use a direct box for best results.


H2H
 
Ok,

Do you know if the Emu has a special imput to get the better results that a budget 10/2 mixer doesn't?
 
The mixer has a preamp that you can wind up. Does the emu have a built in pre? If not, use the mixer
 
You CAN put the guitar straight into the Emu. It sounds...okay. I'd personally rather use my ART MP for that. Other people on other forums also mention that the 1820 is usable for DI, but often not preferable. Get a separate DI box, whether you decide to stick with your old sound card or steup up to a new sound card or card/mixer combo.
 
recording

What kind of recording do you want to do? Are you looking to record just the guitar for some casual recording or are you going to be producing and tracking more things? The emu 1820 will do a lot more than you need if you just want to plug in your guitar. The best way to record guitar is to mic the amp, however. Unless you're looking for that particular sound, most people aren't. Both the emu and the yamaha will have line level inputs for the guitar, but once again, mic the amp. Give us some more information for what you are planning to do and we'll be happy to help you out.
 
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Bulls Hit said:
The mixer has a preamp that you can wind up. Does the emu have a built in pre? If not, use the mixer
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Yes, the emu has internal and adjustable preamps, and fairly nice ones. But they are for microphones, which your guitar/amp should be going through.
 
Hi, thanks for the replies,

I am starting off on the home studio building, and I am purchasing an SP B-1 with the e-mu to record acoustic guitar and vocals. (I was considering buying a matched pair or b1's, but will try with 1 for now)

I was just trying to decide between the mixer and the e-mu. I think i would like to try recording my electro-acoustic guitar via the e-mu to see what it sounds like, and it may be the sound i want for certain songs, but agreeably i think that i will mic the amp more often than not, as from reading these forums it seems like thats the way to get much better results.

I was just going through it in my head, and would really like to know why when i put the guitar directly into my friends laptop via a normal guitar lead, the sound that came out had a lot of background hissing which we couldnt work out was caused by. I suggested it was the cheap soundcard that comes with laptops, but the microphone when connected was much clearer with very little hissing.

I was wondering if I would have this problem with the e-mu or the mixer. If as you say the e-mu and yamaha have line level inputs for the guitar, I am guessing by this you are referring to the 6 1/4" slots at the back of the e-mu. Would I put the guitar's lead directly into one of those six holes, as the guitar is producing a mono sound.

[This actually makes me think. .....I wonder if i was using a stereo-stereo adaptor (guitar --> 1/4" stereo --> 1/8" stereo jack --> computer) rather than a mono 1/4" to mono 1/8". If this was the case, would it have had lits of background hissing?]

Thanks for all the help so far,
James
 
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