Guitar through audio interface?

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I haven't even *tried* a bass amp yet... ;)

I am about to get an m-audio ozonic or possibly an alesis photon X25 or the novation or at any rate one of these controller/midi/audio interface combos. I know these all have inputs with preamps so you can play your guitar through them into your laptop for recording purposes. what I would like to know is whether this is a viable or reasonable option for playing live... I play mostly keyboards in my band but also would like to play some live guitar also, just wondering whether this approach would save me paying for a medicore-to-good guitar amp (or borrowing an amp off the other band..) and maybe getting something different(good) out of it? Thanks.

― P-Dog (p-dog), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

its doable, like plugging directly into a p.a. would be doable. but it would likely sound worse than the worse mic on the shittiest of the shitty guitar amp. not to mention you'd have a lag between playing something and hearing it back. and it's REALLY fucking nerdy.

― awesome little blues monkey (awesome little blues monkey), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it would sound completely shite.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

You could use a hardware amp modeller, i.e. Line 6 Pod, or a software amp modeller, of which I don't know any names, but I've heard there are good ones, and it would probably sound good.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Thursday, 28 September 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

yeah a preamp would be a must unless you're purposefully going for the thinnest tone possible

― millenarian (millenarian), Thursday, 28 September 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, a simple floor multieffects box with amp models, like one o' them $60 Digitech RP series boxes, would be fine.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

hahah, as per craigslist: Tech21 Tri-A.C. This is an anolog amp emulator. It does fender, vox/marshall, and mesa all pretty well. I have been using this to go direct to my churches PA.

― millenarian (millenarian), Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

emphasis mine

― millenarian (millenarian), Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

You're all talking shit, particularly "blues" "dude". His last adendum is very telling. Fuck the 20th century.

― Copy (2) {AWOL} v ECC 28/05/06 (Lynskey), Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

haha

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Saturday, 30 September 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

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