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Static when recording guitar by direct input! HELP!

This is really worrying me because I dont really know what the problem could be! I'll explain. The way that I record my guitars is by direct input. Direct input as in I take my guitar cable, plug it into a quarter inch jack, then plug it into my audio interface. That's really the only way I can do it because I just cant afford to upgrade right now.

Static/Distortion when tracking

Hi,

When attempting to track into Reaper with an SM57 through an Echo AudioFire4 interface, anything I play is completely distorted and fuzzy.

The levels during recording look fine.

This seems to happen only when the device is set to ASIO. When it's set to WaveOut, I don't have the problem.

I have all the latest drivers installed.

Any ideas?

Static with Firebox on new Dell XPS Studio 435 MT

I was recording on a 2.6ghz PIV computer with a PCI firewire card and a PreSonus Firebox. It worked fine but the CPU was often overtaxed and gave me some clicks or pops. I just "upgraded" to a much more powerful computer. I ditched the whole hard drive with Vista installed, installed a new hard drive and put Windows XP on it. I'll try to arrange some sort of dual boot thing later on.

Recording Static?

I need some serious help with this! Let me give you a little background and setup info first. I just got thrown into working the sound system at our Church. We just moved to a larger building and were just give a decent sound system. We have a Behringer PMP2000 mixer, two Kustom 215's, a Wireless Audio-Techna Headset Mic, and we are using a laptop to play the music and do our recording.

Removing static from guitar tracks

I have a very nice acoustic guitar track that I put down, but it has a small 1 or 2 second segment with some intermittent static (I think it came from the pickup jack).

I can easily re-record it, of course, but I'd really like to know how I can clean it up. What would be the technique for getting rid of static from a music track?

Thanks