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JeremyCarnes13
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Hi, I'm Jeremy Carnes, and I'm an EKU student who is a complete virgin regarding home recording.
I've played bass (a Worwick Thumb) for many years, and recently decided that I wanted to record my own album, for fun and to share with friends. I really had no idea where to begin, and all of the programs I looked at were quite expensive, far too much for a college student to afford.
I logged on to Guitar Center and ended up buying a quater inch jack to USB interface called a Stealth Plug CS. It came with a program called Amplitube 3, but no instruction. I also bought a Blue Snowball USB microphone, it plugs into a USB port.
The problem I'm running into, which stems from my larger problem of not really understanding how to use the software I have, is that my Amplitube program doesn't recognize my or at least accept input from my mic unless i switch to DirectX, at which point it starts screaming at me. If I turn up the buffer level, I get an echo and a whine in the background that rises and falls like a wave. It woulda ctually be a really cool efffct if I could control it, but I can't control it. Plus, my program doesn't seem to want to record any input from my mic, and there's a delay that can take up to two seconds.
Basically, what I'm trying to figure out is, what am I doing wrong? I'm not terribly knowledgeable about technology. Also, I downloaded Kristal and it plays a really choppy version of anything I record, like the wav file was physically mangled or something.
I'm a poor college kid, so I'm running all of this on a Dell Inspiron from 2010, running Vista. I won't be able to afford another computer or O/S for at least six months, so please tell me what no cost suggestions are workable given my current restriction.
I know these are all dumb question, but I'm so lost, and this program didn't come with an instruction manual. Please help!
I've played bass (a Worwick Thumb) for many years, and recently decided that I wanted to record my own album, for fun and to share with friends. I really had no idea where to begin, and all of the programs I looked at were quite expensive, far too much for a college student to afford.
I logged on to Guitar Center and ended up buying a quater inch jack to USB interface called a Stealth Plug CS. It came with a program called Amplitube 3, but no instruction. I also bought a Blue Snowball USB microphone, it plugs into a USB port.
The problem I'm running into, which stems from my larger problem of not really understanding how to use the software I have, is that my Amplitube program doesn't recognize my or at least accept input from my mic unless i switch to DirectX, at which point it starts screaming at me. If I turn up the buffer level, I get an echo and a whine in the background that rises and falls like a wave. It woulda ctually be a really cool efffct if I could control it, but I can't control it. Plus, my program doesn't seem to want to record any input from my mic, and there's a delay that can take up to two seconds.
Basically, what I'm trying to figure out is, what am I doing wrong? I'm not terribly knowledgeable about technology. Also, I downloaded Kristal and it plays a really choppy version of anything I record, like the wav file was physically mangled or something.
I'm a poor college kid, so I'm running all of this on a Dell Inspiron from 2010, running Vista. I won't be able to afford another computer or O/S for at least six months, so please tell me what no cost suggestions are workable given my current restriction.
I know these are all dumb question, but I'm so lost, and this program didn't come with an instruction manual. Please help!
