Distortion pedal effect on guitar in home recordings
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:50 am
Hello.
I play guitar for a band and we've been doing some experimenting with home recordings. I have an effect pedal that produces virtually any effect I could ever need for both studio and live sound.
The way I record the guitar for our home recordings is run a cable from the output on my effect pedal to the mic input on my sound card. I'm half-and-half on the results that I get...
My "clean guitar" (ie: no distortion pedal) recordings turn out superb - couldn't be happier with the sound. The distortion effect sounds great on individual notes, however, whenever I play full-on chords with the distortion effect on, some of the notes become recorded semi-inaudibly. That is, not all of the notes being played in the chord come through as clear as if I turned the distortion effect off and left everything clean.
My first question: Is there some kind of remedy (perhaps an effect, etc.) in Goldwave that I may apply to the distorted guitar recordings?
My second question: Would introducing a hardware mixer between the effect pedals and my soundcard improve or superceed the quality of my current recordings? If so, why?
I play guitar for a band and we've been doing some experimenting with home recordings. I have an effect pedal that produces virtually any effect I could ever need for both studio and live sound.
The way I record the guitar for our home recordings is run a cable from the output on my effect pedal to the mic input on my sound card. I'm half-and-half on the results that I get...
My "clean guitar" (ie: no distortion pedal) recordings turn out superb - couldn't be happier with the sound. The distortion effect sounds great on individual notes, however, whenever I play full-on chords with the distortion effect on, some of the notes become recorded semi-inaudibly. That is, not all of the notes being played in the chord come through as clear as if I turned the distortion effect off and left everything clean.
My first question: Is there some kind of remedy (perhaps an effect, etc.) in Goldwave that I may apply to the distorted guitar recordings?
My second question: Would introducing a hardware mixer between the effect pedals and my soundcard improve or superceed the quality of my current recordings? If so, why?