Simuanalog

[Mutant]

isn't that part of the E-MU 0404/1212M hardware already?

E-MU 0404 not
1212M yes

[stayne]

ah gotcha. i found a Groove Tubes DI box at GC yesterday for 40 bucks. i guess i'll snag it today. i hope it makes a diff!

[stayne]

I just pulled the link to this track from the Cockos Reaper forum and gave it a listen, getting ready to drop you a line and here you are over here! Well I liked your track, very nice, a little hum brings it into the real world doesn't it. Nice playing, nice production.

Thanks. it's nothing really, just some quick one-take pentatonic stuff over a couple of loops. I burned it onto a CD last night and gave it a listen in my car. sounds terrible! way too boomy. i'll get this mixing thing down if it kills me. still using cans, no monitors yet.

[luka2807]

You can believe me that I've got enough experience with shielding guitars myself, all the bla bla - and this Anderson is completely unshielded apart from a very tiny amount of some self-adhesive foil under the tone/volume controls.
There's defenitely no shielding laquer at all.
What they are doing though is using super high quality shielded teflon cables and such, so, in humbucker mode (both series and parallel) noise is not much of an issue.
Pretty dissapointing though - I mean, you'd just expect such things from a 3500+ bucks guitar.

Actually it is not. Your guitar is perfectly shielded if the cables witin are shielded. All grounds from each cable are connected to ground of pots and then grounds of pickups etc... Because pots do have this one EMI "hole" due to design, these small conductive tapes are glued under them.
(All DIY guys: Avoid ground loops here)

It is like you would like to shield coax TV antenna cable. There is simple no reason for that, IF cables are of good quality.

cheers

[luka2807]

I guess it's off to GC again for me then. There are no hi-z or instrument inputs. Just line-in.

Thank you all very much.

Ohh and of course not all Hi-Z DI's are created equal.
Try to get one with as high impedance as possible.
1 Mohm would be nice, 5 Mohm is tops.

actually this is not good advice. Input impedance should not be "as high as possible". It is adviceable to have 5 times of guitar output impedance. I would say 1MOhm is optimum.

[stayne]

one more question before i get the DI box today. what EXACTLY is it going to do for the tone? is it really going to make all that much of a difference? it already sounds decent to me. maybe i'm just overwhelmed by guitar tone lately. is it just boosting the signal a bit?

[Mutant]

one more question before i get the DI box today. what EXACTLY is it going to do for the tone? is it really going to make all that much of a difference? it already sounds decent to me. maybe i'm just overwhelmed by guitar tone lately. is it just boosting the signal a bit?

Quick look at my favorites folder.
Here it is:
http://www.moollon.com/tech/tech_2pas_e.asp

[stayne]

rofl, I'm not even going to begin to act like I can understand all that. seems i have some learning to do.

[Sascha Franck]

I dont understand. Are you saying that soundcards with HiZ inputs are better than i.e. audiobuddy (which also acts like DI by the way) conected to line inputs of i.e. Delta Audiophile?

No, I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying that there should be some sort of Hi-Z input somewhere after your guitar, unless you're using active PUs.
I'm using an Audiobuddy myself and I'm pretty happy with it so far (just that I wish the inputs and controls were slightly less sensitive, I usually don't even have to turn them up more than up to 9'o clock).

[Synesthesiac]

can't remember if this has been suggested but markd, how close is your audio card to your video card?

i read somewhere sometime ago that can lead to noise issues.

[Hink]

Fwiw, I usually prefer a compressor (if used at all) after the preamp/gain stages.
That way, the amp gain will still react fine to my playing (so, lowering the guitar volume will indeed decrease overdrive) whereas with a pre-compressor things are just getting all evened out, which I don't like.

And fwiw, to Hink: There's no need to discuss about sarcasm with a non-native speaker, so I won't get into the details of that here.
And fwiw #2: You always vehemently defend your use of active PUs (which is what our short excurse was about). And I completely fail to see why. I could be nasty now, telling you that your tone really needs some work, but I won't. It'd be a non-debatable debate anyways.
But stay calm, you're not alone. There's another KVR member (that I won't name) constantly telling some things about tone, yet his recordings are just plain awful.

let's get a few things straight here

1. I am not defending anything...I have nothing to defend. What I like has nothing to do with you in any way. I like EMGs...so what? Apparently others do, they seem do good business

2. I don't care who it is, who died and made you boss and the judge what's awful? Shouldn't you be above that kinda talk by now?...Myself I have seen you slander many people that are held in high regard by others and myself, both famous and people here...and I am quite proud to be in that group because you may be good...but your judgement is worthless.

3. You don't get it...when you understand passion, and being passionate about making music you will see the nonsense of judgemental statements like you keep making towards me, but keep at it it really makes me look so bad.

4. You also do not see that by being so obviously biased against me and the fact that I can't do anything right...my tone is wrong, my phrasing is wrong...I have no idea about pick-ups...that makes you the loser in the end, not me...I know that most of what you say aimed at me is crap (I do wonder what the true motive is behind it, but even if you told me I wouldn't believe you) and I ignore it...but you're also talented and smart so I gladly take the free lessons from your posts that are worthy of reading (for which there are many). Fortunately I can weed out the nonsense from the logic because I do not go through life with blinders on, and I can learn because I love to learn.

You on the other hand foolishly believe I have nothing to offer, but I do...I may not be the greatest player in the world, but I'm not the worst either I've helped my share of people out...but I'm not stupid and you act as if I am, which is a waste of time...even if you think I'm the fool...the wise man always listens to the fool too...

FWIW I do not want to be the best...ever...I am not on a quest, There is no brass rings, no magical answer, no right and no wrong. I am on a challenge...a challenge to grow everyday...and I do a pretty good job at it, both in music and in life as a man, have a good day...

[Sascha Franck]

Hink, apart from your phrasing, probably some tonal choices (which I still think needs improvement) and now the active PU issue, I never had the slightest personal problem with you - more to the opposite, because I think you're quite an OK dude. At least as far as I can tell.
Anyways, I can stand with all I said.

[jens]

There's another KVR member (that I won't name) constantly telling some things about tone, yet his recordings are just plain awful.

me?

Fwiw:

I like Hinks playing - it sound authentic too me...and authenticity is the most important criteria for me when it comes to judging 'playability' - but tbh I doubt a bit that you get what I mean when I say this, Sascha...

[jens]

Let me add an example:

a good friend of mine, he's a professional musician (tv-, advertisement- and soundtrack-work), is never satisfied with the guitar-lines his friends can play for him because they're not perfect enough - hence he ends up using virtual-guitarrist instead.

[Lunch Money]

Yuk.