Electric guitar to laptop

Fingers Mcginty

Howdy folks. ..heading abroad for a few months and will be bringing the geetar and laptop (non apple)
I was gonna bring my wee yamaha thr10 with me but to save on space I want some sort of interface I can plug my guitar in thru the laptop and get to sound good without having to make too many tweaks.
Tbh I don't need many effects at all. Just a good overdrive tone I can play along to youtube backing tracks etc and listen through the phones.

acous

You probably want a usb audio interface, here's a list of some: https://www.thomann.de/ie/usb_audio_interfaces.html. You're probably better off to get one with built-in headphone output. Otherwise it will route through your laptop's sound chip, adding latency, which sucks.

You'd also need some kind of guitar fx software like Amplitube or Guitar Rig. You can get free versions of both I believe, which come with a few basic effects.

Fingers Mcginty

acous wrote: »

You probably want a usb audio interface, here's a list of some: https://www.thomann.de/ie/usb_audio_interfaces.html. You're probably better off to get one with built-in headphone output. Otherwise it will route through your laptop's sound chip, adding latency, which sucks.

You'd also need some kind of guitar fx software like Amplitube or Guitar Rig. You can get free versions of both I believe, which come with a few basic effects.

Yup latency would wreck my head. I suppose something like a modern version of what the pocket pod used to do.

Air_Bass

I have a set up for at home very similar to what you are describing.
It's guitar into Harley Benton American TrueTone (€30 on Thomann) into my USB interface (M-Audio M-Track) into my laptop.
The TrueTone acts as a DI/Amp simulator and has a great range of tones and plenty of drive.
Headphones plugged in to interface so no latency either.