Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 Mic Input (not Linux specific) - Linux-audio-user

28 Nov 2007

David,

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.

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.

if you have noise contraints, I'd suggest at the very least a DI box.

best
bradley newton haug

On Nov 27, 2007 11:51 PM, David Haggett &lt;david(a)haggett.demon.co.uk&gt; wrote:

 Should I have something in the chain to match impedance, or is the clipping
...
  just because my pickup signal is too high?  I can
eliminate it by turning
 the
 guitar or the pre-amp down but this can lose tone.

 Second Question

 The mic input feeds to Alsa PCM Inputs 5 and 6, but of course is just 2
 identical streams.  I have been recording the guitar to a stereo track
 using
 both channels but wondered whether there was any benefit in doing this, or

 whether it would be better:
  * take a single input and split it to a stereo track?
  * take a single input and record it as a mono track?
  * take a single input and feed it to a mono-stereo plugin and record
   it as a stereo track?
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