Recording guitar on cakewalk

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Somachina

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im recording layered guitar through cakewalk. i had it set up so i pluged my input cord into the mic. hole in my soundcard, i was told that this makes it fuzzy(im not doing anything serious) so i put it in the line in like your supposed to(i hope) but when i try to record with the line in it record faint so you can hardly hear it at full volume or nothing records at all. Would a powered mixer solve this problem? is there anything i can do to make it sound clear??

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-Will
 
I belive that geetar signals right from the geetar need a preamp, thats what it'z so quiet. I don't know lots about geetars cause I don't play so dats me best guess.

Sabith
 
I know geetars and Sabith is right... the signal from a electric guitar's pickups is much lower than so-called line level, which the Line In input is designed for. Your choices are: get a line level signal by using a preamp, direct box, the Line Out of an amp, a POD, or whatever; or, use a microphone on an amp run through a mic preamp.

-AlChuck
 
As long as it has a line out of some kind... they usually do for recording purposes. DON'T plug a speaker line into it...

-AlChuck
 
Out of my own experience, don't use a amp for a preamp. I got a lot of hiss, it may be because I was using a cheap amp,but I'm not sure.
 
Recording On CW

Somachina,
You can use a powered mixed. DO NOT use the powered speaker out puts! Use the auxillary out puts used for monitors (UN-powered). Use whatever effects you want.
Guitar--->effect(s)--->mixer aux out(s)--->soundcard.
or...
Guitar--->effect(s)--->amp,pre amp out--->soundcard
or...
Guitar--->effect(s)--->amp--->mic--->mixer,aux out--->soundcard.
Trial and error method...try it and see what you like the best.
Be careful not to push the effect gain to hard this will cause a unwanted hum or buzz.A preamp is needed to boost the signal, the mixer will be your preamp.Or you amps pre amp output, if you have one.
Depending on what version you have of CW,Some have amp simulators and effects built in.
I reiterate... DO NOT USE THE POWERED OUT PUTS FROM THE MIXER !!!

Gidman
 
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