help with sound card!

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Member Since: Dec 22, 2005

hi.
i recently installed cubase sx3 on my comp...
i have an m-audio firewire solo device that worked fine until now...
my problem is that i have these amusing distortion sounds with my guitar only when i work with cubase. when i just plug it to the comp it has a clean sound...
i tried changing device settings like the driver settings, chache and buffer sizes and some more but nothing changes...
I tried recording with some other softwares and it does the same sound too...
plz help me!
thanks alot

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Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002


Aug 03, 2007 07:44 am

Do you have any preamping going on for the guitar, or are you just plugging the guitar straight in to the computer? You should have some sort of preamp or DI box in between.

Member
Since: Dec 22, 2005


Aug 03, 2007 08:19 am

I dont have but i dont need.
The firewire solo dosnt ask for it. and i used it like that for a year now until i bought my new computer...

Hold 'Em Czar
Member
Since: Dec 30, 2004


Aug 04, 2007 05:04 am

ok, what exactly are you plugging your guitar into? the line-in on the computer?

never mind, i'm gonna guess you're plugging it into yer m-audio solo...

is it sounding 'glitchy'? if i could spell it it's be 'pluttf pluttf pluttf'...if so, it's a buffer setting (stick to mutiples of 8)

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002


Aug 04, 2007 11:14 pm

I will take a shot at the fact you may be turning the gain too far up on the solo itself and that is causing the distortion. What you want to try and do is use a moderate amount of gain and make up the level with the output level knob. This will give you a cleaner signal.

I am guessing the program before Cubase SXx you might have had to use less gain to get a hot signal into the PC. And now somehow you are not getting the same input signal into the pC without having to boost it up.

Try turning the guitar channel's input gain down and the line output level up a little and see how that works.

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