Questions tagged [guitar]
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What's the point of putting electronics inside a guitar instead of just outputting the raw pickup signal?
I'm new to electric guitars, but I understand that all the different models out there have various signal-modifying electronics shoved somewhere inside the body that modify the pickups' signal before ...
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How to improve guitar tone for recording?
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I've been recording/producing for 4-5 years but I've always struggled to get electric guitars to sound the way I want them and I'm wondering what I can do to improve that. (also done ...
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Do I need a DI box to record guitars with a USB Interface for re-amping?
I am currently searching if I should use a DI box to record active electric guitars for re-amping. I currently have a M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB interface. I am planning to record guitars at home and ...
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Electric guitar connected to Mixer doesnt work
Just wondering if someone could tell me why my setup didnt work.
I have an electric guitar and was supposed to play as part of a choir at one of the churches. I have never played at the church or ...
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What are good amplification methods for percussive fingerstyle (on an acoustic guitar)?
I have a guitar with an active pickup built-in. It works fine in normal playing, but when playing percussive fingerstyle (example below), there are two big issues:
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Synthesizing distorted guitar from MIDI
So I've been experimenting with generating music by computer program, and got a thing working with Python and fluidsynth, with a nice-sounding piano soundfont. I want to switch to distorted electric ...
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XLR output vs. 1/4 inch (6.3 mm) output - Which one is better for recording?
I got an Ibanez AEG8E acoustic guitar and a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 interface. The guitar has two outputs, a XLR output and a 1/4 inch (6.3 mm) output for instrument cable. The interface provides both ...
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How to record the sound of an acoustic guitar with a magnetic pickup?
I have a magnetic pickup... How can I use it to record the sound of a guitar to a laptop?
I was told magnetic pickups should not be directly connected to a laptop (and that might be true, because I ...
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Guitar amp sound distorted when miked up
I am trying to understand an issue I have when I record tubed guitar amps on the distortion channel with a standard SM57.
I always feel like my miked sound is much more distorted than the actual ...
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Amplitube VST won't respond to MIDI PC messages from Ableton Live
I have been dealing with this problem for a few months now without any success and I was wondering if anyone has ran into this issue. The scenario I'm about to describe used to work flawlessly ...
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Should I use pedals for guitar effects while recording?
Is sound quality at all effected by using pedals before the interface, as opposed to recording a clean sound and applying effects in the DAW?
I am using a Scarlett 2i4 interface.
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What audio usb interface do I need to play guitar pro with guitar rig?
i'd like to play with Guitar Rig sounds while running Guitar Pro to exercise.
At the moment i'm using Rocksmith Cable with Asio4All to connect the guitar for Guitar Rig, but Asio4All is exclusive and ...
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Connecting electric guitar to XLR
Is it possible and safe to connect my electric guitar to XLR input in my Focusrite - Scarlett Solo?
If so, will I be getting worse signal from XLR than instrument input ?
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How do the outputs on this audio interface work?
I don't know much about audio interfaces and how they work.
I'm looking at the Line 6 AMPLIFi TT and I have have two questions about the outputs.
If an interface has an "AMP OUT" like this one does,...
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How do I get rid of hum in mixing desk when guitar plugged in?
I have an rcf f6x mixing desk, whenever I plug in an acoustic guitar I get a weird hum through the speakers, it seems to dissapear when I kill the bass on the guitar eq and the mixer but obviously ...
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How to protect an amplifier from blowing an internal fuse
At the last gig I played the guitarists amplifier head blew a mains fuse and we didn't have a replacement.
We've learned our lesson about having spare fuses, sufficed to say.
Thankfully we had a ...
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How to achieve this western sound on guitar?
I'm trying to achieve an especific sound on my guitar, and I don't know how to do it. The sound feels like those Wild West themes. I don't know if it's a banjo, or a guitar effect actually, so any ...
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Resonator guitar pickup
I bought an used resonator guitar from eBay, and I found out it has some kind of pickup.
A pickup is a nice-to-have feature, no must-feature.
I have not seen a pickup like this before. It has no ...
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I have this acoustic guitar pickup. What is a good software for it?
I have bought this cheap (10$) guitar pickup for an acoustic guitar, which I have connected it to my laptop's 3.5mm microphone port:
This is for a 14 years old kid.
What program can he use to remove ...
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Can I use a ESI MAYA44 eX to record an electric guitar?
I'm trying to record an electric guitar and apply effects (amp sim, etc.) through my DAW, then play back the result through headphones with minimal delay.
So far, I have been using the Scarlett Solo ...
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Power supply for guitar effects
I recently bought a few guitar effects, and now i want to get myself a good power supply for all of them.
I've read about different parameters and i understand most of them, however what i want to ...
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How to make the most of my FX Loop send/return?
I have a Hughes & Kettner Statesman Quad EL84 tube amp, and one of the nice features it has is an FX send and return. From what I understand, this feature allows me to add effects to the end of ...
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How does direct monitoring work with a directly plugged in guitar in the Scarlett Solo?
I am thinking of buying a Focusrite - Scarlett Solo interface to record my guitar. I would like to plug my guitar directly to the interface and hear me playing while I'm recording, but would like to ...
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Assessing volume and loudness for the sake of normalization without actually hearing the signal?
I'm primarily a guitar player and play through some fancy digital equipment to make me sound less awful. One of the nice things about this kind of gear is you can have many different patches, each one ...
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What is the effect used here that resembles a distorted guitar?
I am building a project for my music technology module in University and would like to know how to imitate this effect. Originally, I thought it was guitar but after having watched a video of the band ...
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Why isn't the classical guitar part of an orchestra?
At least why not in modern orchestras? There is an argument that says it is too quiet so the rest of the orchestra will down out the guitar. However, that is true if we are talking about adding one ...
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How to connect my guitar to my pc for under £20?
I have a copy of native instruments guitar pro 5, and I've been told I need something like this audio interface in order to connect my guitar to my pc, but it's a bit more than I'm willing to spend.
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Guitar pickups as a "microphone"
I've been thinking about this a lot, since I saw this video link text in fact. As far as I can tell, there's nothing going on with the strings -- he's muting them with his left hand -- which means ...
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How to filter guitar sound to create a backing track
I was wondering if there's kind of a "rule" to filter guitar sound from a track. My idea is to create my own backing tracks, e.g. I did not find any backing track of "Roxette - Listen To Your Heart", ...
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Guitar pedal randomly changes tone to a fuzzy sound - how to fix it?
I have a guitar multi-effects pedal (a Boss ME-70). Sometimes I have a tone dialed in, and then it randomly changes sound to a very fuzzy / fat tone. When it does so, a number (usually around 90ish) ...
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Would a "opto-isolator" help in reducing EMI/RFI from recording guitar?
I am using Reaper with the guitar plugged directly into my interface (Scarlet 2-i2), and I get a decent sound with the TSE 808 -> TSE x50 -> Poulin LeCab -> ReEq. However, I have a high noise threhold ...
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Connecting guitar to mixer and pc
I bought a guitar and an amp, and to connect my guitar to the pc I followed some guides on the internet. Looking for a good setup I got a BEHRINGER Xenyx 302 mixer and a BEHRINGER DI100 DI with the ...
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Listen to guitar using audio interface
I plug my Alesis Core 1 via usb into my PC. It appears as a recording device, if I right click on that and go into advanced and then click "Listen to this device", although I can hear my guitar there ...
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Difference between internal sound card and Audio interface in simple setups
A set up consists of a single instrument that is guitar and a recording software like pro tools along with amplitube as the guitar effects.
Is there a difference between using the internal mac sound ...
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Getting the funk guitar sound from Funkytown
One of the sounds that fascinates me the most is the guitar in Lipps Inc.'s 1980's disco track Funkytown.
The features I like about it are its attack and super rich mid-range.
Any ideas on how it'...
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Reproducing downsampling effect on guitar tone
I've noticed if I downsample my classical guitar recordings from 44100Hz to 8000Hz, the result is a bassy vintage electric guitar sound, which I really like in some songs of mine.
I know because of ...
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Acoustic guitar with 2 pickups, but no internal mixer: what to do to make it mono?
I have a custom Taylor Dan Crary guitar which has two pickups installed. One goes to the left, one to the right stereo channel.
One pickup is for the strings, the other for the body sounds (ie. ...
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Guitar rig settings to get a deathcore sound on guitar
I am trying to make a deathcore sound on guitar rig software for guitar but cannot find something decent.
I tried downloading some presets but either they weren't good enough or they were not ...
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Is it safe to play/drive a speaker(60w, 8ohm) with a connection from 3.5mm jack
Here are the details.
My guitar amplifier is a combo amp which means it has a built in speaker. The speaker is 12 inches and is rated at max power of 60w and has impedance of 8ohms.
The amp also ...
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Merging two jack audio sources from guitars and BT from PC into one source
I am wondering how to solve this problem:
My flatmate plays bass guitar and I play electric guitar, we live in a block of flats so we have to use headphones. We would like to play together, ideally ...
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rhythm guitar sound on 'only tomorrow' (my bloody valentine) (pedals?amps?guitars?mic placement? etc.)
i'm mostly active on stack overflow, but as i like the overall platform/concept so much i figured i'd give this here a try!
basically, my question is in the title, and here's a link to the song:
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Is the perceived power of 2x60W the same as 1x120W?
I have a guitar amplifier which is rated at 120w (solid state). It has two outputs (A & B) both of 60W each.
If I were to run both of these outputs into a 2x12 cabinet in stereo (output A to ...
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Recording guitar and vocals (condenser mic) simultaneously
I'd like to ask if running a condenser mic on an interface with 48v phantom power enabled (such as the focusrite pro14) at the same time with a guitar in the other input, causes any issues. There is ...
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Overdrive Pedal DIY parts
So I am making a DIY overdrive pedal, and was wondering if anyone has any good parts that increase the quality of sound created or give it a more "overdrivey" sound. So, if anyone has any basic ...
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Is it worth using guitar effect pedals on a DI signal?
My current recording set up is a guitar going into a Line 6 GX interface, into SONAR Artist. I use the built-in amp sim (TH2) to get my sounds. It works fine for demoing but that's about it.
My ...
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How did the band America get the distortion for the guitar solo in Sandman?
I've been listening to this song for years and have never been able to figure out how they got that distortion sound during the solos. My only thought was that maybe they mic'd an unplugged electric ...
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Is it possible to create an IR (Impulse Response) file for use as a Low Pass Filter?
Is it possible to create an IR Impulse Response WAV file (FIR speaker cabinet frequency response profile) to simply remove top end from the frequency response of a guitar amp modeller? It requires a '...
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Connecing a stereo reverb pedal into two separate amplifier fx loops
I am using a dual chain Acus acoustic guitar preamplifier equipped with 2 separate FX loops for each channel.
https://www.acus-sound.it/en/preamplification/16-stagepre2-di.html
I would like to connect ...
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Multitrack recording on mackie pro fx 12v
I'm trying to figure out whether this mixer model suits my needs.
I have an electronic drum kit, and an electric guitar which I want to record.
The drums need left and right input. The guitar needs a ...
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Synthesizer models for (rapidly) re-excited strings like guitar?
In piano a sting is typically dampened (safe for pedal use) from one note to another that sound banks with a large number of individual recordings are used in commercial quality piano synths.
I do ...
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