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Should I use pedals for guitar effects while recording?
I wouldn't record using FX unless I was very sure about the end result I wanted and how it would sit in the mix, just to leave my options open since you can't go back and remove the FX. On the other ...
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How to improve guitar tone for recording?
In addition to @frcake's excellent answer, I have a few points:
I have been gigging for over 30 years and I still have trouble getting some sounds I want. One solution that most guitarists go for is ...
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Connecting electric guitar to XLR
Shouldn't be a problem as long as you’ve got the +48v phantom power switched off. Otherwise, goodbye hardware, and hello taser guitar. Still track everything as mono, business as usual. Just using a ...
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How to record voice and guitar with Zoom H6
You will almost always want to use two microphones. Yes, you could do it with one, but it will require you getting it perfectly placed, and it will not give you optimal sound quality for either guitar ...
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How to improve guitar tone for recording?
As a rule of thumb, closer to the center is trebly , closer to the ring is mellower - more bassy.
Electric guitar recording is a world of it's own, many people go to insane extends to hunt the tone ...
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Guitar with a Synth sound and chunky palm muting
This IS a guitar but several other things are contributing to this sound.
The guitar has been double-tracked. The guitar part has physically been played twice (not copy-pasted) and each version has ...
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Connecting guitar to mixer and pc
Everything about your signal chain sounds correct except for the mixer to the pc. It sounds like you want to use your mixer as an interface, in which case you'd want to use the USB to connect to your ...
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What is the effect used here that resembles a distorted guitar?
In the Softare FL Studio you get FL Slayer and you can also install other VSTs like LABS (free) or AmpleGuitar SC (paid) that include electric guitar sounds like in this demo:
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What is the effect used here that resembles a distorted guitar?
It sounds like a distortion effect like Rory Alsop mentioned.
On synths there are a lot of ways to achieve this:
In case the synth does not have effects:
You can increase the volume to get digital ...
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Fiber optic guitar, what is it and what are its advantages?
Unfortunately, the comment format isn't capable of handling my response to this question.
Section 5 of the article you linked lists the supposed advantages of such an instrument. let's go through them ...
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How do I get rid of hum in mixing desk when guitar plugged in?
Looking at the pictures at Thomann, that looks like a cheap switch-mode PSU. They are notorious for a slight 'tingle' when you touch anything connected to them. You can't 'fix' them in any meaningful ...
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Do I need an EQ pedal if I have an audio interface for bass?
You don't need any pedals.
Pedals are all about want not need, especially on bass. Guitarists 'need' some pedals to get specific sounds. Bassists generally don't, assuming your bass & amp [or ...
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Which is better: to get sound from the amplifier with a microphone or to use the REC OUT jack (if it is installed on the amplifier)?
It depends as it is a question of taste.
For an electrical guitar the amplifier is often seen as part of the instrument. The sound you want to amplify very often is the sound coming out of the speaker....
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Can I use a ESI MAYA44 eX to record an electric guitar?
From their website (bold is mine):
MAYA44 eX provides 2 stereo analog line inputs, 2 stereo line outputs, a microphone input with +48V phantom power and preamp, a Hi-Z guitar instrument input, a ...
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Reproducing downsampling effect on guitar tone
Audacity (and probably other resampling algorithms as well) use filters that are steeper than 48 dB/octave. The difference might be audible.
As the goal of filtering in resampling is to cut ...
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Acoustic guitar with 2 pickups, but no internal mixer: what to do to make it mono?
You can wire a TRS at one end to link the tip & ring, then to a regular 'guitar jack' TS at the other.
This is basically how a Rickenbacker stereo sums to the mono jack.
Lifted from Cadfael's ...
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Setting up a Scarlett 3 with an AT2020 microphone output for online calls
Have a look at Audio Hijack & Loopback, both from Rogue Amoeba, same as their consumer-level SoundSource. Both have far more capable routing possibilities. Both have trial periods you can use for ...
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Properly connecting a guitar to audio interface with a pedal
Link them up exactly as you would with a guitar amp -
guitar > pedals > amp/Scarlett.
Analog effects pedals don't have latency. Only once you go through the computer will you see any latency at ...
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Guitar rig settings to get a deathcore sound on guitar
You are off to a good start, but you need more. A death metal set up I occasionally use (can't remember where I got it from originally) is as follows:
Compressor - Volume about 1/2, Sustain about 1/3
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Power supply for guitar effects
The reason for using isolated power is that variations in the voltage provided may impact the processing of effects, particularly when using analog effects. Isolated power prevents the power ...
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How to fix low frequency hum in a Yamaha silent guitar powered by adapter?
Could be any of the three (or most likely a combination):
power supply
UST (under saddle transducer pickup)
preamp circuitry
You already tried out different power supplies, but still that's where I'...
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Is it safe to play/drive a speaker(60w, 8ohm) with a connection from 3.5mm jack
It's perfectly safe. The impedance is fine and the only effect will be the low output level, which you have already experienced. Other than that, it's not the most conventional configuration, but safe ...
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Would a "opto-isolator" help in reducing EMI/RFI from recording guitar?
If the noise is induced in the pickups - eg from your monitor screen or fluorescent lighting, then no amount of electrical isolation will cure it.
The only cure is switching off the offending sources,...
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Would a "opto-isolator" help in reducing EMI/RFI from recording guitar?
You don't have a ground loop as there is no connection between the guitar and the computer chassis (other than via the interface).
You can try using a DI box - this might improve your situation but ...
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How to make realistic instrument sounds digitally from scratch?
It sounds like you're asking how synthesis works.
There are a few different types of synthesis. Historically, the earliest synthesisers did just use electronic components to create sounds. Later, ...
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Guitar playing through PC interface and usb headphones. HELP
Use ASIO driver instead of default Windows Audio drivers. You can try using ASIO4ALL.
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Merging two jack audio sources from guitars and BT from PC into one source
You need an audio interface for the PC with at least 2 instrument inputs to get the audio in to the PC - your Behringer should be fine for this.
Then you need some kind of DAW (or even basic mixer ...
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