Guitar chord forum - chordie — Recording basics?

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Russell_Harding) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:37:19 +0000

Wibble been there and done that good luck with it russell

Wibble wrote:

Thank you both for the answers there.
I was just fiddling around with my spare room last night shifting things around (throwing all my old crap out that I really should have thrown out years ago) and noticed when I shifted my amp out of the way there was a line out - so happy days. To be fair, on a bright Orange amplifier you would think I would have noticed the big black jack port marked "line out" a long time ago...

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Wibble) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:55:17 +0000

Thank you both for the answers there.

I was just fiddling around with my spare room last night shifting things around (throwing all my old crap out that I really should have thrown out years ago) and noticed when I shifted my amp out of the way there was a line out - so happy days. To be fair, on a bright Orange amplifier you would think I would have noticed the big black jack port marked "line out" a long time ago...

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Russell_Harding) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:38:48 +0000

I concur with your findings my friend from across the pond, and if by chance the amp dose not have a line out then to get the effects from the amp you will require a mixer of sort to plug in the amp and to the soundcard and your guitar or microphone will go thru the mixer first

arkady wrote:

Hi Wibble
I know this question was aimed at Russ but....
To answer your question it would be yes. If you use Audacity software then it will pretty much record anything you can hear through your soundcard with distortion or not.
It's a good general recording and mixing program.
Ark

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (arkady) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:31:45 +0000

Hi Wibble
I know this question was aimed at Russ but....
To answer your question it would be yes. If you use Audacity software then it will pretty much record anything you can hear through your soundcard with distortion or not.
It's a good general recording and mixing program.
Ark

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Wibble) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:18:02 +0000

So, on the back of that - If I run my usual circuit and use my amps line-out into the 1/8 inch jack for the pc - would it actually record the distortion or not?

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Russell_Harding) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:28:07 +0000

06 Unless you have a line out on your amp you will have to mic it, if you have a line out just put the 1/8 inch adapter on the chord leading from your line out and plug it into your sound card if not place a microphone in front of the speaker and adjust your send volume (you can monitor this on audacity) and make sure the dark red meter bars are not constantly peaked to the right as this would indicate a distorted signal

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (06sc500) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:35:12 +0000

I think the program will be better for recording acoustic and vocals. Is it at all possible to run my guitar through my amp first then the computer?

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Russell_Harding) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:03:33 +0000

yes i tried useing some of the new pluggins the distortion didnt really distort at all so I dont know I use the effects in my digital recorder and just forget the effects with the ecception of a few like equalization and a few more but overall the audacity program works well enough in conjunction with my 8 track

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (06sc500) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:12:23 +0000

I'm just curious as to why overdrive and distortion don't sound like, well, overdrive and distortion on Audacity. It seems all I can get is a clean sound, with stuff like reverb, delay, phaser, etc. Anyone else notice this?

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (riddler) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:51:30 +0000

I have some of these effects im using in adobe audition...not sure if they work in audacity but here they are if you want to try http://www.freevstfx.com/

ps...the vst effects will probably only be sliders instead of the graphic pic you see here...if i remember correctly that is what i read in audacitys site...

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Russell_Harding) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:28:33 +0000

thats good to hear 06 Randy will have to take most of the bows for pointing you in the rignt direction with the pluggins i just downloaded them to and installed them in both of my audacity programs and if your wondering why I have two its because some requests for help with adding tracks are either with the new 1.3.5 version of audacity or the old and strangly enough one wont work on the other hense the two audacity programs, and if your inclined add your name to one of the sections for the instruments you can play and help someone else with there songs if they request it (thats why the mediafire link is there) we are uploading and downloading tracks to be worked on or sending the results of what we added tracks to if you get a chance read the "Idea 2 posts" and you'll see what this is all about. You can always get a myspace account as an "artist" that way you can upload your songs to a player and we can all give a listen if you need any help setting it up or with the design for your profile page let me know and good luck with your recordings

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (06sc500) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:37:09 +0000

Hey thanks a bunch guys I got it to work

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (Russell_Harding) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:40:45 +0000

Thanks Randy I was thinking about giveing it a whirl myself

riddler wrote:

I was able to download vst effects from here http://sourceforge.net/project/download … 0.4.15.exe and get them to work...
after download....when you install it....save it to your desktop and it will create a plugins folder there with all the vst effects(about 90 of them)....open that folders and copy and paste all the files from there into your audacity plugins folder....open up audacity and they should be under your effects list then...

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (riddler) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:20:59 +0000

I was able to download vst effects from here http://sourceforge.net/project/download … 0.4.15.exe and get them to work...
after download....when you install it....save it to your desktop and it will create a plugins folder there with all the vst effects(about 90 of them)....open that folders and copy and paste all the files from there into your audacity plugins folder....open up audacity and they should be under your effects list then...

Re: Recording basics?

null@example.com (riddler) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:01:56 +0000

yeah he will need to close out audacity then open it back up....if it is already running....ill try 1 out myself and see how it goes...im just going by the website instructions right now..

and 06sc500...its no problem...we will help ya all we can....