<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>David,<br><br>I would consider using a DI box.. You may also wish to consider miking an amp, even an SM57 sounds great. A nice recording amp with a powerbrake will sound like a stack at full blow on 2.
<br><br>as for splitting the signal, it's a decent idea, in a perfect guitar setup you want to record a DI box and a mike on different tracks so that later you can go back and 'reamp' or 'remike' your dry signal by running it through an amp/mike and rerecording it if the original amped track proves troublesome.
<br><br>if you have noise contraints, I'd suggest at the very least a DI box. <br><br>best<br><font color="#888888">bradley newton haug</font><div><br><br><br>
On Nov 27, 2007 11:51 PM, David Haggett <<a href="mailto:david@haggett.demon.co.uk" target="_blank">david@haggett.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Should I have something in the chain to match impedance, or is the clipping<br>just because my pickup signal is too high? I can eliminate it by turning the<br>guitar or the pre-amp down but this can lose tone.<br><br><br>
Second Question<br><br>The mic input feeds to Alsa PCM Inputs 5 and 6, but of course is just 2<br>identical streams. I have been recording the guitar to a stereo track using<br>both channels but wondered whether there was any benefit in doing this, or
<br>whether it would be better:<br> * take a single input and split it to a stereo track?<br> * take a single input and record it as a mono track?<br> * take a single input and feed it to a mono-stereo plugin and record<br>
it as a stereo track?<br></div><font color="#888888">__</font></blockquote></div><br>
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