When recording...

[Jeff]

Ok, this may sound like a newbish question but here goes:

When you are recording via a computer or whatever else, how does a guitarist send a signal to the computer or board, and still hear himself play? With a computer, I usually go from the headphone jack of my amp, but sometimes that gives an undesired tone, and I can only hear out of the computer speakers. The other way is to use a jack on my processor, but I haven't tried that yet because I don't really like the processor.

Do you just chain up your effects then go directly into the recording device, or is there some other way?

Thanks

[Vaibanez]

A quality set of headphones run out of your sound card is the ticket.

[Jeff]

Where would I plug those in at? Just the line out?

[ardell henderson]

a sound card needs to be "full duplex" capable in order to route the input to outputs for monitoring. Some sound cards are not full duplex (I think this is the right term) able.

the other option is to use a mixer (especially if you have good mic preamps in the mixer board) - plug the guitar into this mixer 1st, then you can use the mixer to route the signal to the PC for recording & you can monitor from the mixer as well.

hope this helps...