what i need to record guitar and/or vocals to my PC?

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Plugging a mic straight in always seems to give me a lot of hum. My friend is selling his edirol soundcard which I'm hoping will bring more joy.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

guitar
a voice
a PC

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

what soundcard is it?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

one of these:

http://www.easylaptopshop.co.uk/shopimages/products/normal/griffin-imic.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sound cards considered "harmful".

This:

http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/product_pics/big/fasttrack.jpg

is a decent intro interface.

― Braise: pointed offal. (goodbra), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

without costing you any more, a M-Audio 2496 card with a behringer mixer will give you the added advantage of having decent audio *output* quality as well.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

I agree, but would sub, well, any other brand in place of behringer.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Don't laugh, but literally, I just use this:

http://www.preisvergleich.org/pimages/Logitech-USB-DESKTOP-MICROPHONE_173__2222365_20.jpg

No hum, and you can record voice and guitar and whatnot, easily. With my mac, it's fairly low latency. There's very little bass response, but it sounds really warm for some reason.

Ok, now laugh. :)

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Thursday, 11 January 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

If it makes you feel any better, I've gotten a surprisingly good sound lately out of, well, running my guitar through a multi-effects pedal / amp modeler, out to headphones (cranked loud), and then putting the headphones "on" a Sampson USB condenser mic. Inside a coffee can. As if the condenser mic were a head. For the phones. I have no idea why this would sound more full and strong than just running the signal into the computer, but it does, and it's not just a matter of the coffee-can reverb.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds like an awful lot of work--ugh, I aspire to that amount of indie tinkering. We're still at the below-DIY level of hardware tool usage, despite having very nice software stuff like Ableton Live and Logic. I couldn't tell you what the difference between a condenser and a, well, non-condenser mic (ribbon mic?) is. Do you have any songs that have that weird guitar set-up?

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

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