noob question: how to hook up guitar rig to pc?

[corganrocks]

Hi all

Im thinking of getting that cakewalk guitar studio but I dont know what lead I'd need to hook up a guitar rig to a laptop. i mean is there some lead that has a standard guitar jack at one end and a usb connector at the other? i dont understand......some genius could answer this in two seconds so please help

[Algiman]

Originally Posted by corganrocks

Hi all
is there some lead that has a standard guitar jack at one end and a usb connector at the other?

No.

To go into a USB input you'll need something in between the guitar and the PC other than the cable. PODs are a favorite choice but there are a few other devices about.

[guitarob]

You'll need an interface of some sort.

I use a cheap M-Audio Quattro USB. They make others as well, both USB and Firewire.
http://www.midiman.net/index.php?do=...bileinterfaces

Someone else will probably suggest another manufacturer.

Simplified, you want to connect your guitar into your rig and send the output from your rig into the interface which then sends it to your laptop.

If you use a PODXT, you can connect the USB out from the PODXT directly to your laptop. You would just need the USB drivers for the PODXT.

What is your guitar rig that you want to record with?

[DaiVai]

If you just want to link up your guitar with a effects pedal you already have you just put a coverter (changes the size of the jack on the lead) on the lead going into the PC and plug it in to the line in or where you would put the microphone in. ope this is of help.

DaiVai

[BeastofLove]

You could always plug your guitar into the amplifier, and turn the amplifier up so it produces sound at a consistant and bearable level. Then have a microphone connected to the microphone input connection of your computer- position the microphone near the amplifier's speaker cone so that it can 'pick up' the sound that you hear in the room. Then record the sound that the microphone is picking up. I swear to God I've seen this work.

I'm just playing with you of course, but it's a combo of: 1) Everyone on the planet using a POD and 'going digital' damnit, and 2) trying to quit smoking so I'm pretty agitated

-Ben

[JESTER700]

Originally Posted by BeastofLove

I'm just playing with you of course, but it's a combo of: 1) Everyone on the planet using a POD and 'going digital' damnit, and 2) trying to quit smoking so I'm pretty agitated
-Ben

I don't get the consternation about the digital movement. In 100 years they'll be wondering what the brouha was about. We don't get antsy over listening to steel string guitars (though classicos likely did when they came out). Then solidbodies... Then solid state amps...

In the end it's all about the tunes and the player. The forest for the trees, m'boy... ;-)

[BeastofLove]

I record digitally, and don't even have any analog recorders anymore.
I listen to CD's, and not records anymore.

I guess I just see and hear so many people using the POD that guitar tone is now homogenized. Like, I'm actually yearning to hear some 'real' guitar. Now, I think for late night recording or demoing the POD and the like are great, sonny. And I guess it wouldn't be an issue if so many folks weren't using it... then I wouldn't constantly be hearing the same 3 dynamic-killing POD presets over and over and over.

So I suppose it's not so much anti-digital as it is pro-amplifier.

-Ben