Tascam US-1800 and Amplitube 3

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I'm having trouble getting these to work well together. This what I am trying to do right now - Under Amplitube's hardware settings I have US-1800 selected as the input. The left and right channels are both set to Instrument Input 10. The output section is automatically set to US-1800 and the left and right channels are set to my monitors. This does work, but it sounds awful. I was over at my friends house recently and he was using an M-Audio Fast Track and Amplitube 3 and it sounded amazing. He took a look at how my stuff was set up we can't figure out what's wrong. He even copied some of his Amplitube settings on to a flashdrive and brought them over and it still just sounds awful. When I do regular drum, guitar and vocal recording on the Tascam I don't have any problems and it sounds great. I also doubt that my computer would be the problem. I'm running Windows 7 64bit, Intel i5, 6GB DDR3. My friends computer is also running Windows 7 64bit and only has a dual core CPU and 4GB DDR2. Can anybody help?
 
Is it possible you have something inserted on the channel you are recording to? An eq or something? Or is this happening just monitoring Amplitude alone. It sounds like you are hooked up right.
 
Nope, it's just my guitar plugged straight into the instrument input on the front of the Tascam and nothing else plugged into the Tascam except for the usb cable going to the computer and the monitors, and the monitors aren't the problem. The usb cable is the one that came with the unit as well. I tried using a longer one but it was causing a clicking/popping on recorded tracks during playback.

Best way for me to describe what I'm hearing is when you plug your guitar into a distortion pedal and then plug the distortion pedal into the line-in on the back of the computer.
 
I have tried the other instrument input as well, along with experimenting with the mic inputs, the line ins on the back and using an ART mic/instrument preamp between the guitar and the tascam. Same results :|
 
I'm stumped. As far as cable is concerned, the longest run possible is 3m of high quality USB 2.0 rated stuff. I replaced the one that came with the unit just because I was sure it wasn't the greatest. I don't believe this to be your problem though.

Hopefully someone else has more ideas.
 
Yeah, I tried using a 10ft cable hoping it would work. But not luck :|

Another note: I've tested this with a guitar that has active pick-ups and another that has passive. I've heard the Line Ins on the back could be used with active pickups. But like I said, same results.

Thanks for input so far.
 
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