recording instuments

[regarcia]

I recorded for the first time a guitar track usgin my Sonar 2.2 xl through my M-Audio interface. before recording the guitar sounded fine but when i armed the track and finally recorded the guitart sounded very tingy, high, annoying. i tried fixing it by using the graphic eq but that did not work any suggestions.
thanks
ricky

[reverbnut]

if your using direct input no wonder your getting a thiny sound, try recording threw a mic possibly a condenser mic like the C-1, or even an sm58 would prbably be better, if your going with a condenser you'll need phantom power either on your mixer board or your pre-amp, ah the pre-amp you could go as small as an audio buddy fromm m-audio those are great for the price and they have phantom power to, if you want a good reasonable sound you'll have to spend a little money, the C-1 is approx.250.00$ and the audio buddy is 139.00$ i think! marshall make pretty good condenser mics to for around 200$ and the good thing about that you can also use it for voices, good luck amigo!

[billybk1]

Ricky,
Could it be that you have Input Monitoring activated for the audio channel that you are using? When recording audio(i.e. guitar) make sure you have "Input Monitoring" inactive(unhighlighted) for the audio channel that you are recording to. If not, it can alter the recorded audio. You should only use Input Monitoring, when actually using plugins on live input, like the Amplitube, Revalver, Trash amp sims or similar plugs. You also need to be using WDM/ASIO drivers @ sub 5.8msec latencies for best real-time response when using Live Input Monitoring. Most MME drivers will not work right with Input Monitoring.

HTH,

Billy Buck

[This message has been edited by billybk1 (edited 06-26-2003).]

[regarcia]

Thanks guys i appreciate the info will try
Thanks