[LAU] Interfacing an electric guitar

[Robert Edge]

Well, the mic pre on that card sounds like shit, so no I would not consider
that obvious at all.  I go out of my way to only use the line inputs on my
1010LT.

But whatever,  best of luck.

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:44 PM, fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Of course the DIbox XLR output is used!
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>  *De :* Robert Edge <thumbknucklerocks at gmail.com>
> *À :* fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr>
> *Cc :* "linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org" <
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> *Envoyé le :* Dimanche 19 juillet 2015 18h13
> *Objet :* Re: [LAU] Interfacing an electric guitar
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> When going direct from guitar to computer you will want to be using the
> XLR inputs on the 1010LT, probably with the jumpers in the highest gain
> position.  The output of an electric guitar is quite low and you are going
> to lose even more with the insertion loss through the passive direct box.
> I don't think it will drive the RCA jacks in a satisfactory manner.
>
> re using a guitar amp in the chain: I've never had much luck with the
> headphone jacks on.  If you have a line out or effects send they might be
> worth trying instead.
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> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:06 AM, fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>  *De :* "jonetsu at teksavvy.com"
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> Hello all,
>
> Just got an electric guitar.  First time.  Now putting on a new set of
> strings.
>
> Got a 1/4" wire and a passive direct box that's already used for a
> Wavedrum.  Got also a small guitar amp with an headphone out jack, as
> an option.  The audio card is a M-Audio 1010LT.
>
> Can I simply take the 1/4" wire from the passive direct box and connect
> it to the guitar ?  I believe there's a guitar processing app out there
> called something like rackarrack or such.  Does this work through jackd
> as in doing the audio routing using qjackctl ?
>
> Alternatively if I want the amp's sound and processing, I can simply
> use the amp's headphone out, although I'd like to try the computer
> based only interface and processing.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Hi happy Canadian guitarist :)
>
> IMHO, best chain for the hardware you describe is
> guit>DIbox>1010LT>QjackCtl>Guitarix>QJackCtl>1010LT>guit amp
> if you only want to play guitar with Guitarix FX & modélisation?
>
> TIP: don't forget to put a hard limiter before Guitarix out, this (very
> nice)
>        software (available in french)))) is able to produce very hard
> level...
>
> HTH, have fun!
> Fred
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