About Guitar Recording (volume problems)

Hello all people
Im an old fan of creative like most of us
Right now i still use my Soundblaster Live 1024! Platinum
I got the platinum version to connect my guitar through the amplifier on it and start recording
While i had almost everything solved im left with 1 and only left problem
Even if i get a very good recording quality , is always seems like the volume output from straight from my guitar or through the amplifier (just a little bit moved towards to 1) is toooooo much for it.
I reach the best volume in my recordings but the problem is everything must be put to veeery low all levels included sound cards hardware and through windows software volume
How do u think i should try fix this problem ?

My friend, i understand your problem very well. There are 2 reasons in practical.
1)Your guitar use a electromagnet to transform the string oscillation in electrical signal -as usually- and the high impedance of it not matched with the sound card's line input impedance. You -probably- must have and a little of distortion which you can't hear.
2)The output of your amplifier has to much level -the line output not the speaker output-
able to drive in clipping the line input of sound card. Thus and the very low settings
in your P.C. software mixer.
To solve this, you can use a mini mixing desk between your guitar or amplifier and the
line input of sound card, but the quality of these budget desks is very low as include
many unnecessary controls which included in the software of your sound card.
A second approach, presented in my site at URL http://www.eal.gr and is a single channel
preamplifier -self made- with high quality. Get a D.I. box from the market, and inject the
signal from your guitar or your amplifier to this and connect the balanced output of
D.I. to the input of the preamplifier, adjust the input gain, the output level and finally
route the signal in every channel of your choice by the use of the preamplifier as an
interface to the line input of your sound card.
Message Edited by fotios on 11-30-200608:45 AM

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