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White_Devil
Well as you can see from my post below I was havina bit of trouble. But I decided to make my own stuff...

bought an adapter which makes my guitar fit into my pc. Recorded some cool stuff onto my pc and did some bass too, but when I exported it as an MP3, it sounded awful and fuzzy, and distorted.

Is this my graphics card? How do I find out what sort of graphics card I have? And how do I know wether I need to buy a new one? Hope someone can shed some light...
Sphere
I guess you're meaning if it's your sound card?

What input do you use for your guitar, line-in? if so, listen, without your guitar connected, but e.g. connect a mic to it, and put the mic away, and listen if there's a background noise. As you can see in my sig, I've got a pretty expensive, high quality card, but mine has on the line-in, when I connect my guitar, LP player, Stereo, or whatever, a 50dB background noise, which I have to filter out using some specific (in my case Linux) programs.

If you have background noise, you should go search for a filter. for Windows, I don't know one, for Linux, you might wanna try Jack and some programs that come with it, in this program you can set up an entire filter network, input output linkage etc.
Tobb555
how are you connecting the guitar to the soundcard, what does this connector look like? Also make sure that you didnt plug it into the mic inputs becase that will sound bad if you plug just about anything into it. You might also want to fiddle with the sound settings. If you have the inputs turned up all the way and on the guitar then it will distort no matter what you do.
Sphere
I never had that problem, too high a volume will simply always make a magnetic interference, which you'll hear right away is my experience...
I just worked out a really complicated device in JACK... I'm sorry, I can't send it to you, because I lost it with my last format sad.gif
White_Devil
Sorry, meant sound card...

Yeah the only inputs are the MIC input, and the two sterio at the front of the PC. When I put something onto the PC it was fine, I could mix it n stuff (apart from clean, it always sounded awfi;l but I aparrently need a mic for that), but when I "burned to CD" or saved as an MP3, it sounded fuzzy,a dn I could only hear the bass.

I did dort it though. Instead, I covnerted to WAV. file. It sounded perfect, but was big. So, I tried converting to MPŁ using winamp but it didnt work. So I brurned it to a CD-RW, and ripped it straight off as an MP3, and finally, I had it as MP3 sounding Ok. biggrin.gif

Yeah Im using windows. I'm not really skilled enough to use linux or anything. Im also using Nero Soundtrax which...is alright.

I actually recording my own verison of Without You by Warlock (a little known German band from the 80's) which sounded pretty good apart from the clean stuff. All It's missing is some drums. I've been looking for a drum machine for ages but can't find a free one, (apart from one on download.com called "east use drum machine" or something..that was awfull)....My friend recommended using Guitarpro and converting the sound to WAV but the theres no deep sounding kickdrum..nothing really bassy enough...so Im all out of ideas....:S
Sphere
I personally don't use windows (nor linux!) for recording music, if you really want a good result, get a mac, it's the best there is!, I've got one, and it saves me a lot of time and effort, I can simply put in the raw recording from the tapes (using a tape-player to mac input I borrow from uni) and it works wonderful!
Tobb555
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Yeah the only inputs are the MIC input



thats your problem. You need to use the input on the soundcard. not the mic input.
White_Devil
Themic input IS the only sound card input...seems to work alright though...

Just downloaded fruityloops to make some beats...hope i get a decent kickdrum sounds...just need to find a tutorial now hehe.
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