Hi, Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007 schrieb leslie.polzer@xxxxxxx: > 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. Jamin is not the right tool for playing live through it. It has a builtin delay of >10ms which adds to jackd's latency. Use jack-rack for the effects you want. > 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. 1) There is an electrical difference between mic- and line-inputs/-signals. It is _no_ wonder it sounds strange and distorted. You have to use a line-input or even better an instrument input. And the SBLive has line-ins as well and they are usable with jack. And with a LiveDrive you get even more... 2) The mic-input on the SBLive might be better than a mic-input on onboard-cards but it is still crap. 3) Guitars do output a lot of noise. That is way the combo-speakers have a limited frequency-range. :-) The best bet is to use some external (guitar-)effect that has instrument-in and line-out and connect that line-out to the line-in of the soundcard. And if you use hw:0,3 for playback and hw:0,2 for record in jack you get 16 ins and outs and you only have to find the right ones (with meterbridge for example). Hope that helps, Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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