20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
6:48 a.m.
On Saturday 20 October 2007, leslie.polzer(a)gmx.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to get my electric guitar connected to my sound card.
Keeping the card's input gain low keeps away the noise, but
produces a very low signal. I can put Jamin right after that and crank
up the input gain, but there's a maximum to it and I'm not sure whether
that's the right approach.
Turning up the card's input volume increases the gain, of course, but it
delivers a lot of very ugly noise as well. If I connect a microphone to
the port, I get a high-gain signal without noise.
I'm not an expert by any means. What sort of pickups does the guitar have,
and is the noise you are experiencing similar to mains hum you might hear
through an amp?
It could just be that the signal from the guitar is too low, or generally
noisy and the digital gain on the card just magnifies the noise. I have a
Terratec DMX 6Fire (has a built-in pre-amp) and have to turn up the pre-amp
quite a way to get a useable signal.
Maybe you could use an external pre-amp and/or noise gate effects pedal before
the signal goes into the card?
--
David Haggett