Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007 schrieb leslie.polzer@xxxxxxx: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to get my electric guitar connected to my sound card. > > Keeping the card's input gain low keeps away the noise, but > produces a very low signal. I can put Jamin right after that and crank > up the input gain, but there's a maximum to it and I'm not sure whether > that's the right approach. > > Turning up the card's input volume increases the gain, of course, but it > delivers a lot of very ugly noise as well. If I connect a microphone to > the port, I get a high-gain signal without noise. > > The card's an SB Live! Platinum, and the mic port seems to be the only > capture port usable by Jack. The cabling for the guitar is all new. > > I can provide samples of the input signal at the various settings if you > wish. > > Leslie > You cannot do that in a sane way - the output of a guitar pickup needs to be modified (amplified and converted to high impedance) before, otherwise the signal will suffer (treble loss). A guitar amp with line out, or certain guitar FX processors will do, or you can try to find some cheaper device, look for at least a impedance converter(transformer), or an active (battery powered) D/I box with built in amplifier. Edgar _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
