• Using my pc for guitar effects?
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Hi. I have never played guitar before in my life, and I am planning on picking up a Squier Affinity HSS strat with a foreman 15W amp. Now, I've read online that this amp has a great 'clean' channel, but that the distortion is not that great, I've also read that I can connect my Guitar to my pc and use software like Guitar Rig to have a 'amp simulator' with many great sounding effects. Now, my question is: how would I actually connect my guitar to my pc, and would it sound better than with the amp that comes with the guitar? I have a Z87X-D3H motherboard and am using the onboard audio, would I use line-in and a jack converter to plug my guitar in, then apply effects with Guitar rig, or do I need to buy a USB interface like the Rocksmith realtone cable? Which would be better? Thanks in advance. [editline]24th September 2014[/editline] I might get the Realtone cable, as I plan on getting Rocksmith for pc as well, is this a good cable, does sound quality differ from different usb cables?
Guitar Rig has a billion sorts of sounds, and extremely customizeable too.
I bought one of these Behringer - cheap but it does its job. [img]http://www.theusbsoundcard.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Behringer-UCG102-USB-guitar-Interface.png[/img] It's the Behringer UCG102 USB Guitar Interface. I got it for about $70AUD
Does a cheaper USB interface impact the sound quality?
Yes it does. I used to have some cheap USB to guitar plug, like the one Waffles posted. Got a Line6 UX2 now, quality skyrocketed.
And what about using line-in vs using a USB interface? Thanks for all the answers
used a usb interface before, might have been the precise interface but there was a lot of clipping and a really muddy general sound to the guitar using a steinberg CI1 at present, it's okay, does the job for personal and demo recording, here's an example: [media]http://soundcloud.com/george-fitzgerald-5/goin-down[/media]
[QUOTE=rakker;46071184]Does a cheaper USB interface impact the sound quality?[/QUOTE] Yeah, the device posted above doesn't capture much of the high end.
I can warmly recommend you the Line 6 UX2 USB Interface. Comes packed with Pod Farm 2.5 which contains a shit ton of amps and stomp pedals and whatnot. You can also buy more if you feel like the defaults are not enough. cost something like 130€ if I remember correctly.
To give the whole PC effects a little spin, plug your guitar into the line-in, download a driver called Asio4all (this will cancel any latency and act as a simulated interface) and check it out through a demo of Guitar Rig or something. Bear in mind, that when you use asio4all, you cannot have any other programs running that are using your sound card.
[QUOTE=CupUp;46122083]To give the whole PC effects a little spin, plug your guitar into the line-in, download a driver called Asio4all (this will cancel any latency and act as a simulated interface) and check it out through a demo of Guitar Rig or something. Bear in mind, that when you use asio4all, you cannot have any other programs running that are using your sound card.[/QUOTE] This is all due to the terrible, terrible audio drivers in Windows. If you truly want near-zero latency and seamless audio interface playback, go with OS X or Linux.
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