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Geek Culture / Using home PC as a guitar amp/Distortion device

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 04:14
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Hey all... I'm taking my electric guitar and pluging it into my portable amp, then going from the amps headphone jack into my computers line in. That way I'm sorta using my computers sound system as an amp. I'm super cheap though and dont want to spend any money on distortion pedels.

Anyone know of some software that can take the input signal and then distort the output signal to custom settings? Like in real time obviously. That way I can set the EQs, overdrive, and all that other good stuff.

Thanks all soo much!

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Benjamin
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 04:18
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You should consider getting effects pedals for this, software distortion is usually really bad. Of course, the hardware alternative is rather expensive..

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 04:21
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yeah... exactly... im not trying to do anything fancy... i just want something to mess around with.

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code master
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 05:06 Edited at: 31st Mar 2007 06:12
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You don't have to break the bank to get a nice Distortion pedal, check these out. I have one, and I really like it.

A good sounding, slightly destructive DIY Distortion method, when recording the guitar;

Run the guitar through your Amp, then into the Mic input on your sound card. It overloads the input. Viola! Instant distortion. And It sounds good too.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 05:20
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Turn up your speakers real loud and you may be able to create distortion that way.

I have a zoom 505, and they're fun to play around with. Tons of different effects you can mix together. It was about $125 when I first bought it, but I think you can get them much cheaper now.

But Ben is right, software distortion usually sucks. If you have a sound card with EAX you should have some effects you can turn on and tweak a little bit.

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code master
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 06:13
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Yeah, but when you do that you run the risk of breaking something...

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 31st Mar 2007 06:29
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yeah... thats what im like... Overloading inputs what? lol

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I used to do it to my stereo receiver before I got my big ol' Fender amp. An old 70's Sansui and about 200watts per channel. But it had a fuse in the receiver and fuses in the speakers as well, so I never had to worry about anything.

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Saikoro
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Get a program called Guitar Rig. Really nice.


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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2007 16:11
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eh, note that the headphone out is a powered line and normally your line in (and especially you microphone jack) are not designed to take powered input. I would suggest you head down to radioshack (electronics store) and buy an adapter for 1/4 to mic (1/16 ?) size before you end up frying something. As for distortion pedals, if you have a Daddy's Junky music or other used equipment store check it out you can often find some trade ins pretty cheap.

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I used to do that too! I recorded some of the stuff using some cool software. Check out the stuff from MAGIX, they got software for everyone, inexpensive too.
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GatorHex
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Go for hardware fx, by the time the computer signal reaches the CPU and gets processed back out you will have few seconds delay and it'll probably sound not nice.

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