Dec 16, 2004 06:43 pm Level wise it should work, but usually the send output is before the preamp in the guitar amp so as long your not trying to get distortion or other amp effects it should work.
Dan
Using amp's effects loop to send to software studio?
Posted on Dec 16, 2004 05:51 pm
Cougar
Member Since: Nov 08, 2004
I'd like to play my keyboard through my amp and use the effects loop's "send" to send the amp's output to my computer with its audio capture software. The amp has no other "out" that I could use. Is this theoretically feasible?
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Dec 16, 2004 06:43 pm Level wise it should work, but usually the send output is before the preamp in the guitar amp so as long your not trying to get distortion or other amp effects it should work.
Dan
Dec 17, 2004 04:44 pm Thanks for the response. But damn, I wanted to record the amp's ultimate output, including the reverb. It's actually a keyboard amp (Fender KXR-60), but I doubt that changes anything. Plus I want to hear the amp output while recording (so as to avoid any latency lag in the software's "record monitoring" option). So do I need an amp with an external speaker jack that I can send to the computer? (When connecting an external speaker, does the amp's internal speaker still sound?)
Or do I need to reconfigure my system altogether? :^/
Dec 17, 2004 05:44 pm An amp with a headphone output will work. You could also mic the amp vs trying to go direct.
Dan
Dec 17, 2004 07:24 pm Olddog: An amp with a headphone output will work.
Right. But this cuts out the amp's speaker, and I can't hear the amp. Is there a "splitter" cable that I can pick up at Radioshack or someplace that I can run out of the amp's headphone output into both the computer and a set of headphones (or even the "return" of the effects loop?) so I can hear the signal I'm recording the nanosecond I play it?
Question 2: I'm a solo home recording artist, and I might layer up 10 or 15 tracks (using pieces of them at different times during a piece). So I've got to listen to the rhythm tracks as I lay down the solo tracks. If I'm successful in the above-mentioned setup, are the tracks going to sync up OK, or do you expect I'm going to have to "select and move" subsequent tracks some number of microseconds so they'll sync up? The Deck 3.5 software I'm using on my Mac is very intuitive and cut-and-paste friendly, but it's also pretty flaky with respect to latency issues.
Dec 17, 2004 07:28 pm So I've got to listen to the rhythm tracks as I lay down the solo tracks.
I expect to just use my computer's Yamaha speakers to listen to the already recorded rhythm tracks.
Dec 20, 2004 11:11 am Is there a "splitter" cable that I can run out of an amp's headphone output into both the computer AND a set of headphones so I can hear the signal I'm recording the nanosecond I play it?
Dec 20, 2004 11:50 am firstly, I know that you're trying to get information and stuff but posting the same questoin over and over to bump the thread isn't really the way to go about it.
That settled, you can either mic the keyboards amp as you're playing, Run the headphones out to the computer, get a slpitter, or get a mixer which is what I reccomend. But yes, there are splitters you can get at music stores that will plug in and give you two outputs, I use one on my guitar to send it to two different amps. So you'd plug that splitter into the headphone out, plug a instrument cable from one of the outputs of the splitter to the soundcard, and then the other output to your headphones.
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