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A couple of Home recording questions
Hi,
Sort of new to home recording. Attempting to record the guitar. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Basically, I have a cornford mk-50h stack (stacked amp), which I use a THD Hotplate (power attenuator, basically quitens the stack down by sitting inbetween the amp head and the speaker cabinet). The THD hotplate has a line out which I used to record. Recording wise I am using a Midiman M-audiophile 2696 and cakewalk sonar 3 (p1.7 128 RAM - upgrading to a p3.0 528 RAM soon) Problem is, when I record clean guitar it sounds ok but when I attempt to record distorted guitar, it just sounds bad and fuzzy (not malfunction bad, but just low quality almost like it is a real cheap distortion effect- which its not!). I'm not overloading the soundcard inputs or anything like that, and there is certainly nothing wrong with the equipment nor is it cheap/dodgey equipment. I'm guessing its because of the whole using line out thing. So would buying a microphone be a good idea(not certain, but I heard the shure 57 was good to start with), and hopefully I can then get the distortion sounding on the recording as it should? - or is it another general problem with my setup? Also, when I do record something, I always get my vu (i think its called, the sound input level meter) db level in the green range (occasionally it might dip into yellow, but only just). However, whenever I play it back it is ever so quite. Much much quiter then any music I may have on my system. Is there something I am doing wrong? All levels are set to normal in the recording software, i.e. its mixer is not quitening it (unless it does it by default). Also, a little on the pc, p3.0 528 RAM is that good enough to record to a descent quality (i.e. low latency etc, 41 up to 91k 24bit), or would 1 gig of RAM be ideal. Sorry for the long post and loads of questions, been playing for 10 years and am becoming more and more enthusiastic towards home recording but I cant seem to get the recording to sound good - I realise I wont be able to get the polished result of what is on a cd, but I though I may get closish to that. I have heard clips people have home recorded that sound good/proper, but none of them were mine! Also generally speaking, how would a pc setup compare to proper recording deck/machine? Any help would be most appreciated and thanks in advance for any help, Jon. |
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