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I need a lot of assistance here. My equipment in question is a Marshall G50RCD (solid state 50W Park Combo), a Boss GT-6 floor processor, and of course, my uncooperative computer.
Every time I try to record direct into ANY of my computers, it sounds ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS. Even just playing dry direct (without my amp or processor) sounds horrible. It's just the guitar and patch cord into the microphone jack on the back of my tower, and I get OVERDRIVE! How on EARTH?!?! And I'm using the crappy low-output stock pickups on my RG560! The Duncan Designed pickups on my KE3 also give overdrive. HOW?!?!?
Choosing an acoustic simulator on my GT-6, I get overdrive when plugged direct. Choosing any of the "clean" tones will give me overdrive when plugged direct. Selecting the clean channel on my amp, and direct into the computer, will give overdrive. Anything cleanish will give me overdrive when plugged direct. And the overdrive is HORRIBLE too.
In the distortion channel on my amp, or any of the distortion tones on my GT-6, I get TOO MUCH overdrive, and the result is a VERY fuzzy buzz. It's no longer the fat articulate singing warmth it once was when I would normally play my amp in the boost channel or playing my distortion tones on my GT-6.
Remember, everything is normal when played with the amp or played with the amp/GT-6 together, but I get unwanted/excessive overdrive when playing dry direct into the computer, or through either of the amp's two channels, or through the GT-6.
Is it a problem with my sound card? The GT-6 is supposed to sound amazing recorded directly into whatever.
A little note on the GT-6: There's a little output jack on the side of the chassis that is labelled "Digital Out", and it's very narrow, and it won't accomodate the patch cord (obviously) but it also won't accomodate a computer-mic-sized wire. Okay, you know your computer mic goes into the back of your tower through the little red input jack on the sound card? It's thinner than that. Therefore, I can't use this "Digital Out" jack on the GT-6, whatever's that's for. I'm currently using the patch cord sized output jacks on the chassis to plug into my amp or into my computer.
Maybe I'm using the wrong jack on the back of my computer tower. I'm supposed to use the red microphone jack, right? There's green one for the speakers and a red for the microphone. There's also a blue one which I have no clue what it's function is. Enlighten me!
The obvious solution was to turn down the volume knob and adjust the tone knob on my guitars to limit the input, but I lose a lot of tone, obviously.
The other obvious solution, especially with my GT-6, was to turn down the preamp gain knob on the GT-6 and the preamp master level knob, but that would mean I have to totally re-sculpt my beautiful tones that took me figuratively FOREVER to achieve. And still, turning down those knobs meant a huge sacrifice in tonal quality. The distortion tones especially turned into such sterile sounding fuzzes.
All your help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Otherwise, I'll have to do the old fashioned way of putting my microphone in front of my amp's speaker, which sounds alright. But I really would love to make use of digital when I have the capability to record direct.
Before you ask, my sound card is a Sound Blaster... not sure which version, but I think it's a basic version, and it handles my computer audio needs alright.
Post away. I REALLY would love to record stuff, but I'm stuck at this obstacle.
Thanks in advance, as always! [img]graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]
Every time I try to record direct into ANY of my computers, it sounds ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS. Even just playing dry direct (without my amp or processor) sounds horrible. It's just the guitar and patch cord into the microphone jack on the back of my tower, and I get OVERDRIVE! How on EARTH?!?! And I'm using the crappy low-output stock pickups on my RG560! The Duncan Designed pickups on my KE3 also give overdrive. HOW?!?!?
Choosing an acoustic simulator on my GT-6, I get overdrive when plugged direct. Choosing any of the "clean" tones will give me overdrive when plugged direct. Selecting the clean channel on my amp, and direct into the computer, will give overdrive. Anything cleanish will give me overdrive when plugged direct. And the overdrive is HORRIBLE too.
In the distortion channel on my amp, or any of the distortion tones on my GT-6, I get TOO MUCH overdrive, and the result is a VERY fuzzy buzz. It's no longer the fat articulate singing warmth it once was when I would normally play my amp in the boost channel or playing my distortion tones on my GT-6.
Remember, everything is normal when played with the amp or played with the amp/GT-6 together, but I get unwanted/excessive overdrive when playing dry direct into the computer, or through either of the amp's two channels, or through the GT-6.
Is it a problem with my sound card? The GT-6 is supposed to sound amazing recorded directly into whatever.
A little note on the GT-6: There's a little output jack on the side of the chassis that is labelled "Digital Out", and it's very narrow, and it won't accomodate the patch cord (obviously) but it also won't accomodate a computer-mic-sized wire. Okay, you know your computer mic goes into the back of your tower through the little red input jack on the sound card? It's thinner than that. Therefore, I can't use this "Digital Out" jack on the GT-6, whatever's that's for. I'm currently using the patch cord sized output jacks on the chassis to plug into my amp or into my computer.
Maybe I'm using the wrong jack on the back of my computer tower. I'm supposed to use the red microphone jack, right? There's green one for the speakers and a red for the microphone. There's also a blue one which I have no clue what it's function is. Enlighten me!
The obvious solution was to turn down the volume knob and adjust the tone knob on my guitars to limit the input, but I lose a lot of tone, obviously.
The other obvious solution, especially with my GT-6, was to turn down the preamp gain knob on the GT-6 and the preamp master level knob, but that would mean I have to totally re-sculpt my beautiful tones that took me figuratively FOREVER to achieve. And still, turning down those knobs meant a huge sacrifice in tonal quality. The distortion tones especially turned into such sterile sounding fuzzes.
All your help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Otherwise, I'll have to do the old fashioned way of putting my microphone in front of my amp's speaker, which sounds alright. But I really would love to make use of digital when I have the capability to record direct.
Before you ask, my sound card is a Sound Blaster... not sure which version, but I think it's a basic version, and it handles my computer audio needs alright.
Post away. I REALLY would love to record stuff, but I'm stuck at this obstacle.
Thanks in advance, as always! [img]graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]
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