[linux-audio-user] Plugging an electric instrument

[Hartmut Noack]

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lanas schrieb:
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:59:50 +0200
> Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de> écrivait:

>> I really recommend to buy a small mixer.
> 
> One point that was earlier made here when I was asking lots of
> questions (not that I've quit doing that...) is that there should be as
> few as possible of components in the path so that the sound source goes
> into digital as soon as possible. 

This applies for microphone-preamps and recordingpreamps for Instruments
(that are made to yield a hifi-signal), yet the average guitar-preamp is
designed to be plugged into a poweramp, that propagates the signal via a
speaker to the audience. In my experience the signal of such a
guitar-preamp is not very useable if it arrives the soundcard completely
"unspoiled" (I used to record guits with a H&K preamp some years ago and
  had to buy a cheap mixer with a graphical EQ to get a signal that had
the qualities i would expect from the same guitar plugged into a real
amp...).

But besides all that: TRY! ;-) the best sound, you can get is the sound
you like best. Or as Frank Zappa said to Queens Brain May:

"If you are on stage, it is your show: you decide, what´s wrong or right."
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