I recorded a lead section on my acoustic guitar directly through my pre-amp and I can't get rid of noise that sounds like reverb/echo. I've used the "Remove Silence" feature but that doesn't help. Anyone ever have this problem? How do you get a smooth acoustic sound without all the noise? Thanks!

How did you record it?  Microphone or DIed?
 
If DIed, what sort of transducer does it have?  Underbridge piezo, mic in body?

Is what you are hearing a delay or a reverb? 
Those describe entirely different "sounds" . 
A delay could be easily explained by you somehow re-recording the output of your interface back into the input. 
Possibly your interface has a software mixer? 
Reverb can only be created by adding that effect with an outboard possessor or a Plug in. 

I recorded directly into a DAKING Mic-Pre One. The sound I'm hearing sounds like reverb but I have no FX on the track. Weird. Must be some gremlin in the system. Guess I'll have to redo the track. Thanks for your thoughts on the matter. Mike

Do you have any FX and/or Sends that are being routed to? If so you will need to address them either through by-passing or removing.

Regards,

Bear with me. Some people are gonna tilt their heads sideways at this one, but I swear it is true. I have been recording acoustic tracks for too long to tell and this one problem does crop up from time to time. Some guitars are really bad about ringing harmonics! The test is to strum the chord fairly hard and immediately kill or mute the strings from sounding. In a lot of cases, you can hear harmonic ringing after the muting of the chord. The most often found place that this happens is the portion of the strings between the nut and the tuning pegs. The main fix for this is to get a small piece of material such as felt and weave it between the strings to dampen those vibrations. If you record direct this problem tends to get very pronounced. A quick fix is to stick a guitar pick in between those strings. Picks tend to be stiff and cause tuning problems. I prefer a piece of felt or just tie a do-rag around the headstock just behind the nut. Not sure if this is the problem you speak of. I just know that I have had to do this from time to time even on my own guitars. Hope this helps.

Sidroe, You're absolutely right--it was harmonics all along! Playing lead on strings 1 and 2 produced harmonics in my lower strings. I dampened the strings as you suggested and it worked! Thanks very much!! Mike

Some guitars are really bad about ringing harmonics!

It's not just acoustics. I've an original style Gibson ES135 which has a tunomatic bridge and trapeze tailpiece with several inches of string between them, and a pretty lively body resonance (the centre block is a very light balsa-like wood, not Gibson's usual mahogony). Resonance in the strings between bridge and tailpiece can show up through the pickups in all kinds of unlikely ways.

If its harmonics, you wont get rid of it. Try using different strings, mics , mic placement, rooom and guitars to fix the issue

Cj

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If its harmonics, you wont get rid of it. Try using different strings, mics , mic placement, rooom and guitars to fix the issue

Cj

Or just tie a bit of cloth round the head, tailpiece etc., like Sidroe suggested..