recording guitar with m-audiophile 2496 sound card

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Member Since: Jun 25, 2007

hey guys..

so i have my new sound card and it is working in FL studio but i am having probs with sonar5.

The reason i bought the audiophile was because my playback in sonar was crap but it was fine if I exported my recordings. But I had no trouble recording my guitar through my boss GT-8 except fot the dodgy playback.

So now with the audiophile installed i can playback one of my old recordings and it sounds great!! but when i go to record something new with my guitar it comes out sounding really really weird. I can still hear the syncopation of the notes but they aren't hitting the right pitch and sounding really weird..

So i was wondering how to fix this. with my old card i just used a guitar lead to 1/8 inch stereo plug adaptor and then into the input of the card.

This time around with the audiophile i had to use the rca plugs so I used an adaptor to go from RCA's to one 1/8 inch stereo plug and then from that i adapted it to a guitar lead plug which then went into the output of the boss gt-8.

would using all the adaptors cause problems.. i don't want to go fork out more money for leads if i don't have to....

or do you think i have set something up incorrectly in sonar???

any help is really appreciated!!

thanks!

JB

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Hold 'Em Czar
Member
Since: Dec 30, 2004

Jul 04, 2007 12:09 pm

what do you mean by your guitar sounding "wierd"?

Member
Since: Jun 25, 2007

Jul 04, 2007 03:40 pm

its hard to explain the sound... its not a full signal or something and like i said, i can hear the syncopation but the pitch of the notes is off.. i gotta go to work now so i dont have time to explain bettrer... also i can't get the guitar to play through the speakers at all.

so i get no sound from the guitar but when i playback a recording of my guitar it sounds really weird..

cheers!

JB

Hold 'Em Czar
Member
Since: Dec 30, 2004

Jul 04, 2007 03:44 pm

does it sound like a phaser/flanger that's 'stuck'?

Member
Since: Jul 02, 2007

Jul 05, 2007 07:05 pm

xxjohnboy-

It sounds like you have a few independent issues.

The guitar: The way you are bringing the guitar in is not so good. I'm 99% sure your guitar is not stereo so you do not need a stereo connector, and though you have the right adapters the impedance and level are most likely off. The RCA inputs are likely expecting a line level signal, so a DI box would likely help. Check:
themixbus.com/basics/impedance
for an explanation on impedance.

As far as not being able to hear the guitar whilst recording there should be a preference in Sonar that has something to do with "Input monitoring" try toggling this to get your guitar sound would you playback/record.

Ian
www.themixbus.com

Member
Since: Jun 25, 2007

Jul 06, 2007 05:43 am

thanks for the help izzypop... i will do some experimenting as soon as i find the time.. i dont think i even tried using the mono output from the effects unit (gt-8) because i know it has stereo sounds (like delays and stuff)... ill look into that impedence in more detail too!

thanks!

jb

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Jul 06, 2007 09:17 am

This sounds to me like a simple case of the Delta Control Panel not being set up right. I like the M-Audio cards, but their control panel is weird, unintuitive and does weird **** if it's wrong...

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