Hopeless feelings, anger, about to give up, Audacity/ Lexicon Alpha/Guitar

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Hello Guys,

is there somebody who can get me out from this desperate situation? I am fighting with it for two days and still without any results. My desktop recording device is Lexicon Alpha, I have an electric guitar which I would like to use and there is Audacity and Cubase LE 5 in my PC already installed. I did everything according to manual, guide or whatever but it just doesn't make any sound.

Guitar is directly connected to the Lexicon via front Instrument connector on the left side of the box. On the right side of the box there are my headphones connected. I can hear some sound from the headphones but it's just some kind of a fizz, no guitar sound comes out of it. The whole box is connected to the PC via USB cable and there are no other connections made.

Drivers installed, checked in Control Panels, Alpha Asio Driver chosen in programs, no input signal though..Both Audacity and Cubase are silent.

Even though I didn't connect Monitors/Speakers in to the rear jacks, I should be able to hear the guitar signal coming out from the headphones, shouldn't I?

Any clues guys? I am starting to feel suicidal a little bit. :|

Thanks for your time and help.
 
Is the Lexicon selected in Audacity / Cubase as the input and playback device? If you don't do that, the program won't know it's there and will default to the system default - Windows, or whatever.... In Audacity it's in Edit / Preferences / Devices... no idea where it is in Cubase but it'll be there somewhere...
 
Hey,
The alpha has "Monitor mix control for balancing an audio source between live input and playback mix level while recording"

If you plug in your guitar and play the turn the monitor knob towards live input, you should hear the guitar directly, regardless of the computer setup.

Setting the knob to the other side (mix) relies on your audio having a path into and out of the daw.
In your software, make sure the audio channel input is set properly, make sure the output is set (headphones might have a different path),
and make sure the track is record armed.
 
Replace '1800' with 'Lexicon Alpha':

You must first select the 1800 in Cubase. Devices>Device Setup...VST Audio System. In the drop down menu at top, select 'US-1800'. While on that page, check the 'Release Driver' box. This will allow the 1800 to play WMP, Youtube, whatever, while Cubase is open.

Now, go to Devices>VST Connections (F4 shortcut). Add a mono input bus. You will need to create a input bus for each input needed from the 1800. For each input bus created, you will left click on the 'Device Port' column (highlighted in yellow), and select the input channel of the 1800 that you wish to use. Leave the default Stereo output bus.

Now, create a track to record to. Project>Add Track>Audio>Mono.

In the 'Inspector' window at the left of the main project window, look for a symbol that looks kinda like this: >] SEE ATTACHMENT

This is where you select the bus you created in VST Connections. You will change this on each track that is using a different input channel on the 1800.

If you don't see the symbol, click on the track name at the top of the Inspector window to pull to the main Inspector screen.

You will need to also toggle the monitor button on the track to hear the input (it looks like a side view of a speaker). Toggle it back off to hear playback.
--to make this toggle automatically; File>Preferences>VST. In the Auto Monitoring drop down menu, select Tapemachine Style.


Let me know if this gets you up and running.
 

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It worked! There was a problem with cable connecting guitar with Lex. Weird, I was playing in studio with this cable yesterday.

Anyway, there is another problem..Now I can hear myself clearly in headphones connected to the right input but when I want to use programs such as Guitar Rig, Audacity I hear only weird embarrassing fuzz. This shouldn't be a big problem to solve, my speakers are connected to my pc not to lexicon, everything is set in driver options but still fuzz comes out.

Finally a little bit closer to recording. After 2 days..god..
 
Interesting addition: The fuzz sound is going out from speakers when no program is opened as well. It reacts on my taping on guitar but no tones just fuzz.
 
I connected speakers directly to the Lexicon via red/white cinche connectors but when i push REC in the Audacity, it still records buzzing. However, in my headphones, there is clear sound of my guitar.
 
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