Aug 10, 2005 10:05 am You need an app to record with...two free options are audacity.sourceforge.net and www.kreatives.org/kristal/ then run your processing device into the sound card and record it in the software...
How to record a guitar via X-Vamp on computer?? A newbie begs for your help
Posted on Aug 10, 2005 09:56 am
Lewan
Member Since: Aug 10, 2005
Hi! I am new here and I hope you can help me.
I have:
electric guitar
X-Vamp
computer with shitty AC-97 soundcard
shure PG - 58
all needed cables
recording software (cool edit, cubase sx)
I need:
to be able to record the sound of my guitar after X-vamp processing. I need to hear what I am recording while playing. I want to record several layers so while playing next layer I need to hear the played one and all previously recorded layers.
I know there is a lot of articles on this topic and believe me I have read a lot of it. But I am still confused in the world of preamps, direct injections and so on.
I don't know how should I set up my stuff to get what I want.
Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)
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Aug 10, 2005 10:05 am You need an app to record with...two free options are audacity.sourceforge.net and www.kreatives.org/kristal/ then run your processing device into the sound card and record it in the software...
Aug 10, 2005 11:03 am wait a sec dB,
hasn't he already got cool edit, cubase sx? Btw I still cant see where the problem is..
Aug 10, 2005 11:04 am oh, your right, I guess I have selective reading skills...OK, then, plug in to the sound card, select the sound card in the software, arm the track and record...
Aug 10, 2005 04:52 pm Well the X-VAMP isn't really made for that; that is what the V-AMP 2 and V-AMP PRO(which is what I use) are made for. BUT, it can be done. You just need a mixer.
You have to take the stereo line/headphones out and plug it into the stereo line input on the mixer and then the mixer tape out/recording out (whatever it is called on yours) into your soundcard. There is no way to take the X-VAMP directly to the soundcard without damaging something.
Sorry bud.
Aug 11, 2005 10:50 am Thanks for your help.
I wouldn't bother you if I didn't try some of the setups before...
I generally tried two approaches:
1. guitar---Vamp----(line in in soundcard)
2. gitar---Vamp---amp --- shure mic --- line in/mic in soundcard
In both approaches either the recorded sound quality was terrible (the effects didn't sound as clean as normal) or the sound level was too low.
So I guessed I need one device more :-) and from what I heard it is mixer or a preamp.
Controlchaos - thanks for help. I have more questions about your proposition:
1. should I plug the mixer line out to the "mic in" or to the "line in" in soundcard?
2. if I plug "line out" on my soundcard to the guitaramp will I be albe to hear exactly what I am recording at the time?
3. why actually is the sound coming straight out of X-Vamp that bad that it need the mixer? What mixer does with it? (i know that it adjusts the level of sound or something like that)
Thanks and best regards
Aug 11, 2005 10:56 am 1- The mixer should go to the line in
2- Yes, with any coloring added by the amp itself.
3- It because the mixer is a preamp and raises the level to acceptable levels for the sound card.
Honestly, I have no experience with the x-Vamp, but I had a Vamp once, and now have a POD xt Pro and a Bass POD xt Pro...all those device can record direct to the sound card, why the X-Vamp can't I am not sure.
I would suggest it's a possiblity that your cheapo AC-97 soundcard has something to do with the problems...
Aug 11, 2005 12:13 pm Thanks.
I will check this configuration once more, i will also borrow a better soundcard from my friend - hope it helps.
And if I want to record vocals thru the mic which should I use:
1. mic ---- mic in
2. mic ---- line in
3. mic ---- mixer ---- line in
??
Aug 11, 2005 12:14 pm mic - mixer - line in
...unless the sound device has a decent preamp on the mic input.
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