Recording acoustic guitar

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TheJackAttack-

I will be trying everything you say.

RemyRad-
thank you also. Im using Audiacity, Cool Pro, Reaper, and that's it. My speakers are just some best-buy ones. My h-phones are the Sony mdr-v150 and the PreSonus one's from the kit. I can also monitor the output on the g-track. I can use the gate, but it's still not good enough. The filtering, like the Cool Edit's noise reduction is bad. I dont have the quality. Cutting out some frq out of the mix by eq or whatever means did help to lessen the noise, but it's not the sound I want to get...:(

I do not think it's the fan now. Even if I turn off the gain and sensativiy (I tried both G-track and the AudioBox) but I put the volume up of headphones (from comp, g track, and audiobox) I can hear that hiss. It's something in the computer that's making that noise.(you can see it in the daw's input monitor) Like a bad output or something. I will try to turn off the internal sound card (not the bios one, but follwing the Sweetwaters guide), maybe, once again, and stuff. But it's comin' right from the computer. So to hear myself, I need to turn up the volume to hear myself and hiss comes in. There's less problems with the audiobox.The hiss also stays at about -40 to -35 db.

[RemyRAD]

I think you should get yourself a Shure SM 58 and plug that into your audio box and see what you get. You have too amplifications stages feeding other amplifications stages and with that, you've got plenty of noise. So plug a dynamic mic directly into the Audio Box and try again. This is something I do regularly and there is no noise problems with the Audio Box with a SM 58. Your headphones are up too high... I said... YOUR HEADPHONES ARE UP TOO HIGH! There is HISS to be heard in any audio electronics when not adjusted properly. It's OK, these are typical beginner mistakes you are making. You'll get the hang of this soon... I hope?

I'm hanging and I'm hissing. I must be a snake in a tree?
Mx. Remy Ann David

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Well, I really have no option of gettin' a new mic now.

The problem is-I don't know what is the appropriate headphone level. (let's say the knob is just at half. At least where the manual tells it to be). That's one.

Second-if something isn't adjusted properly,than what it is? Something internally is making noise in some part-either the mic (input) or the computer (output). Is the only way fixing that is switching gear? Maybe there's something I could do with the computer itself.

Can you also explain a bit more on the two amplification stages?

Sorry, I know Im kinda a pain-in-the-...haha, but It's just hard to get it. I hadn't had much success. When it shows up, it should be better, with me understanding what to actually do.

p.s. I am kinda doing better with the G track though, like, Im kinda starting to get better a liiil' bit. Haha. Actually, Im kinda starting to get better results. Might not be as loud as I want (about -12- -18 db), but it's almost noiseless. Turning off my internal bios sound card made things a bit better. So, Im gonna try more techniques and tweaking and such.)

Thank you everyone, once again.