Re: [LAU] Line noise

Hi,

Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007 schrieb leslie.polzer@email-addr-hidden:
> 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

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