[thechat] Home recording?

Kevin Freeman chaocoine at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 13:49:43 CDT 2008


Is their a way for me to hook my guitar up to my computer and just
slam it up against the wall with the rock of the day?
Serious that would special.


On 8/11/08, Luther, Ron <Ron.Luther at hp.com> wrote:
> Martin Burns suggested:
>
>>>Have a look at:
>>>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=794809
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks!!  ;-)
>
> I was spinning my wheels Friday afternoon trying to figure out if I needed
> to buy a lightsnake cable or something (and also trying to remember where
> the heck I stashed that old crappy mic I have) when I ended up finding a
> thread very similar to this one.  I'm going to try to run over to Radio
> Shack at lunch today and pick up an 1/4" to 1/8" cord.  (They mumbled
> something about there being two different 1/8" connectors?  Not sure which I
> need, but these cables are supposed to be pretty cheap, so I will just roll
> the dice and buy one.)
>
>>>Or if you actually have a PodXT, with USB out (yes, you really,
>>>really want one. They are magnificently ace), this might work for you:
>
> Yes, I DO really really want one ... But given my issues with loft [1] I
> will, for the time being, make do with the old Korg Pandora unit I already
> have.  ;-)  A very fun, (albeit less 'professionally oriented'), toy!  I'm
> going to try the line out from the Korg into the soundcard and gently
> increase the gain hoping I can pick up a signal in Audacity.
>
>
>>>But I really, really, really need to tell you that Mac+GarageBand+iMic
>>>just bloody works. Not as well as s/iMic/PodXT/ but it works.
>
> Oh Maaaaaan.  Yeah, I've been drooling over that GarageBand thing for quite
> some time now.  That _would_ be great fun.  (Maybe I'll knock around eBay
> later and take a sniff around.)  Hadn't seen the iMic thing before.  Neat!
>
>
>>>Oh, and knocked together in about an hour, including working out how to
>>> play it:
>>>http://colonsay.easyweb.co.uk/~martin/temp/ilrr_intro.m4a
>
> See?  Now that's just fun.
>
>
> The Re-re-inspired,
> RonL.
>
> [1]  LOFT ... It's not just my golf excuse anymore!  ;-)
>
> <L>ack <O>f <F>---ing <T>alent
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