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[Kevin Freeman]

I have an 850 watt yamaha board that is just begging to be cracked in half

On 8/11/08, Kevin Freeman <chaocoine at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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