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Usb To Guitar lead, any thoughts?

  • 21-10-2009 1:45pm
    #1
    sponsoredwalk
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    Hey I use audacity to record onto my pc. I have a whole crazy set up and finally got a laptop powerful enough to withstand proper recording. Well, my main issue is that I'm sick of using a guitar lead fitted with a big-jack-to-little-jack converter that goes into the mic slot on the laptop, it's got way too much hiss.

    I'm wondering if anyone uses a usb lead or knows where to buy a cheap one or just any thoughts on a way to record onto a laptop in general.
    :pac: Gratias Vobis Ago :P


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  • #2
    rcaz
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    So what a lead with a jack on one end and a USB plug on the other? Er... :o

    You'll be wanting an audio interface.


  • #3
    Sandvich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭Sandvich


    Get an Amplug and a cheap Behringer Interface maybe.


  • #4
    sponsoredwalk
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    Yeah, is there anything cheap in Ireland, perhaps town that anyone has or can recommend?


  • #5
    refusetolose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    sponsoredwalk wrote: »
    Yeah, is there anything cheap in Ireland, perhaps town that anyone has or can recommend?

    try richer sounds, they should have something to do the job


  • #6
    Paolo_M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Paolo_M


    This is probably your best bet, but you may find one input a bit limiting down the line.


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  • #7
    Paolo_M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Paolo_M


    This is probably your best bet, but you might find one input a bit limiting down the line. Of course this also requires and microphone, you'll to pay more for an unit with a high impedance instrument input


  • #8
    sponsoredwalk
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    Great, thanks a lot for the suggestions. Keep 'Em coming I'd love any other idea's as I'll have to wait 3 weeks before I buy one. :DGratias Tibi Ago:D


  • #9
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    Just curious, has anyone ever used a cable with a usb connection at the end. If I were to connect the guitar jack end to the headphone port in my amp (which is levelled out nicely by my 8-track) and the other end into my pc, would it be better than what I do now (into the mic port lol). The only problem is the hiss and kinda weak quality which means a lot of iffy mastering on audacity...


  • #10
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Mic up your amp, lead your mic throw a mixer into your laptop.
    I imagine this will get you the most natural sound?
    Probably cost quite a lot though.


  • #11
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    sugarman wrote: »
    Get an M-audio Fasttrack interface, very basic but works a wonder with almost everything. I use it with M-Powered Protools and Guitar Rig3 no bother.

    They go for around €100 mark, you should be able to sus out a secondhand one on adverts.ie or wherever for about half that.

    i second this


    does the fast track use usb1?

    ive an mbox and shocked that it still uses usb1!


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  • #12
    sponsoredwalk
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    http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/04/lighsnake-usb-guitar-cable.html

    It Exists!!! And, what's even weirder, there are usb guitars... And I've found that people mod their guitar so it can connect to a pc. Weird stuff, only found out all this today. Certainly a day of revelations lol.

    Yeah the fast track interface looks good, idk from the display pics I haven't seena wire to go from the box to the laptop via usb but I assume there is one lol

    What worries me however is that I don't like to use windows when recording. I use ubuntu linux and I was warned about drivers not working. Now I've heard this about a LOT of stuff when I say I'm using linux, always about drivers etc... yet I've never had a problem. Even today I had a problem connecting a new usb modem TO WINDOWS (always driver problems) but on linux it worked without so much as a murmur...

    idk if anyone uses linux equipped with hydrogen and audacity (and maybe rosegarden) to record, it's probably all pro-tools with you serious people :P


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