On 07/06/2014 08:45 PM, Doug wrote:
On 07/06/2014 06:13 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am looking for a simple amplifer program.
I have looked at audacity, but I would have to be 'recording' to get
'playthrough'. There is supposedly a .vst plugin, but I have not
found it yet.
This is for my wife to be able to have a simple amp (using my little
Asus Eee900) for when she is playing her guitar and needs a bit of a
boost.
As a part-time musician, I would suggest that playing guitar over the
typical computer speakers is going to sound terrible, if you make it
work at all.
(It may be difficult to make it work, because a guitar pickup, whether
magnetic or acoustic, is at microphone level, and the computer sound
programs
would tend to resist putting a mic input out thru local speakers, due
to acoustic feedback concerns.)
Thanks for the valuable response.
We have a real old pickup, her brother's from some 30 years ago. I have
a USB sound card (Sabrent) that I was going to use for the I/O, then
some small external speakers. Just something small that she could take
when it was a little larger venue than a living room.
However, there are relatively cheap solutions that do not involve a
computer at all.
The cheapest is to look for a low-powered guitar amp on Craig's List,
or at local garage/yard sales. I have found two, so far, one of which
is maybe 10 Watts
and would work fine. I paid $10 for it. The next cheapest is to get a
student amplifier from a commercial source. Looking at the catalog,
"Musician's Friend"
for last December (the latest one I have) on the inside back cover
there is a Starcaster Guitar Amplifier, "The perfect amp for beginners
with 15 watts
of power." The sale price was $39.99. They claim it lists for $99
MSRP. MF stock number is H96133.
I don't know if this is still available, but something like this
probably is. ON the page, it says, Visit *musiciansfriend.com/dealcente
*(I don't actually use the little amp for guitar, I use it as a
monitor for a record player. I have a 1959 Fender Bassman that I use
for gigs on electric
piano and guitar. Your wife should not try to actually play a gig on a
little bitty amp like I have described.)
Whatever I get has to be RF shielded. We live 600' from a 700' FM tower
with 5 stations at max wattage. A lot of unshield stuff just does not
work in our home (we fought the tower, but there is a 400' near it that
was here before the community was build up).
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