I'm pretty new to all this recording business and I'm having problems recording a decent electric guitar sound.

I'm running a cheapish (£90) Stagg MCO 5BK through a Tascam USB 122 into my Laptop but the recordings sound very distant and flat and lack any real punch. It's especially bad if I'm using distortion. Single clean notes aren't too bad but anything else is nasty.

Well, I did it - I took the plunge. My Aurora 8 arrived Friday and I'm itching to use it.

I have a classical guitarist coming by to work on an existing project this next weekend. I've requested that he bring his instrument and I'll see what we can track and use for demos. (Though, it will be in my home and the acoustics will be a tad limited.)

Being that this is a budget gear forum,I would like responses to be within the $100-$150 range. Yes, the more expensive the better, but I record as a hobby (stress relief), not professional. Personal experience would be great. I will be using this in a DAW set up running Adobe Audition 1.5 going straight into a Audiophile 2496 soundcard.

Thanks

hi guys, ive been contemplating buying myself a classical guitar to have in my room since i wore out my old one and now i need one for a couple of recordings were doing. so i figured id ask here first. any brands you could recommend that you think are well made, great sounding guitars? I'm thinking of spending about 400$ average. what do you suggest?

Juan

I'm trying to put together a PC for son - could sure use some help as i know nothing about PC's or even worse, DAW's.

He's very keen on being able to record his electric guitar on it, so this the performance priority for the PC ( sort of an ' all purpose " low - end DAW PC )

So, far I've only locked in only a couple of specs;

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but it doesn't really fit anywhere 100%.

Hi, I know that this isn't really relevant to recording guitar as such - however I know that the pool of knowledge here at RO is ENORMOUS!

I have this guitar (which I'm led to believe is quite rare- however I may be wrong)

BUT, the guy who had it before the guy I bought it off, modded it to sh*t, badly.

How come when i use a normal Sennheiser vocal mic, to record a guitar amp. when i strum really hard it like makes distorted crackling noises. is it the wrong type of mic i am using?

Setup i am using for this.

Sennheiser e825s
into a
Behringer ub1832fx-pro
into my computers AC'97 soundcard.

What kind of compression settings do you guys use on crunchy distorted rock guitars? For instance take a song like Vertigo by U2, not really a heavy song or a band, but it's still a killer guitar sound.

What attack, release, thresholds etc settings would u use?

Hi!

What do i need to say in a electric shop that i wan to buy a cable that can handle the power of my guitar amp to my speaker? Isn't the same as the cable that runs the signal from my guitar to the power amp...

Regards,
Murdock