recording guitar

well... when i connect my guitar to my sound card(creative sblive),the sound comes with some distortion and disturbance,even when its cean tone,i connect my guitar troughg effect processor then into sound card.
......when i lower the volume of guitar the sound become lil bit clear but become too dull to reacord,
......the distortion is also not giving a powerful sound through a sound card
......should i use an amplifier before connecting directly froma effect processor to sound card imean.
guitar-effect processor-amlifier(e.g create gx30)-sound card.
will thge sound improve.
or sholud i adapt any other method

hummmmmm dont u think that will disturb the quality,like there will be humm and some sorrounding sound coming.

ORIGINAL: jaxxxkhan

hummmmmm dont u think that will disturb the quality,like there will be humm and some sorrounding sound coming.

Nope. that's how 99.99% of guitars you'll hear in CDs and on the radio are, have been, and always will be recorded.
The room sound gives it a fuller tone.

If not yet using, you can also try if Asio4All improves anything.

Junski

hummmmmmm.thanx for the coments.i have asked the question ,coz i want to record good remaning in my currnt set up......i know i ll not face any problem if i have the best sound card the best guitar the best amp.....one should do his best by remaning in a cuurent setup.

For those of us who do not have the option of crackin an amp up and recordint it that way, which is preferable, there is products like Line 6. As soundcards the Line 6 product drivers are questionable. (unless you happen to have a setup that works well and very few seem to)
There are good quality soundcards out there cheap enough and have DI inputs that work well for the guitar. I USED to use SB audigy and was not happy at all with it. Good luck.

I'm using a Line 6 POD XTL as my soundcard via USB and it works great. I record all guitars, bass and keyboards through it, as well as feed my powered monitors.

HUMMMM..... WELL I USE PROCESSOR ZOOM 505 II .MAY BE IT IS THE PROBLEM...BUT I HAVE SEEN A GUY WHO GOT PROCESSOR DIGITECH GNX 2 AND SOUND CARD SB LIVE ,HE ALWAYS RECORDED DIRECTLY ,I MEAN DIRECTL FROM EFFECT PROCESSOR TO SOUND CARD,AND THE OUT IS AWSOME.
BUT IDONT KNOW IN MY CASE ITS NOT WORKING WELL,IN EVEN IN RECORDING LIVE SOUND THROUGH SOUND CARD IS NOT COMMING GOOD ,EVEN THE CEAN TONE THROUGH M EFFECT PROCESSOR IS COMMING DESTORTED FROM COMPUTER SPEAKE LIVE.

You can record decent guitar tracks using the SBLive! I used to do it many, many moons ago by first going thru my POD, then into the Live card. The trick is in setting your volume levels on your EFX unit and in the SBLive app. so that you're getting a good strong balance between the two and not clipping in your audio app. Also make sure you're connecting to the right input on the card. I believe there is a line-in and a mic input. Make sure you're using the line-in.

You'll always get a better guitar sound by mic'ing your amp, but if you don't have a mic, you can always go direct as above and touch it up with a nice little perfect space guitar amp preset.

ORIGINAL: jaxxxkhan

thanxxxxxxxxxxx lolz but but when i conect through line in ,and when i record the sound ,the sound is recorded in mono chennel ,may be my processor produces only mono line in out put (zoom 505 11),is there any processor who produces sterio line in out put.what about .behringer v-amp-2, should i buy it .

First: Most sound cards do record stereo line in but you need a stereo line in plug. For consumer cards it is usually a tip ring sleve sort of deal.

Second: Rarely if ever record a guitar in stereo. You want mono. Stereo is ONLY for a live performance where you wnat the stereo its uncapturable ambience. Or for a recording that will be mostly unedited. It is well nigh impossible to do decent work in a multitrack environment using stereo tracks. The music Industry prefers by a long shot to record all instruments in mono and then pan them to their final position in the stereo field adding stereo effects under stronger control.

A stereo track has to be perfect exactly as is for the whole mix or it becomes unmanageable.

ORIGINAL: Elvenking

Hey ooble...I respect a lot of your comments....and your a good source of knowledge....

However, being a DI recorder myself...I will have to submit some contention with the 99.99% figure. Hhehehehhee..

Yeah, I know - You're the 0.001% lol!!

ORIGINAL: Junski

If not yet using, you can also try if Asio4All improves anything.

Junski

Or, if you prefer, you can try the kX Audio Driver for soundblaster products:
Official kX Project Site

jaxxxkhan

There are many of us who would not use an SBLive in our DAWS who have nevertheless used them in the past and have gotten them to work fairly well without significant distortion. I think the suggestions regarding using different drivers, the KX one for example, may work. You may also want to make sure that the Creative drivers are loading properly. Last time I used one of the cards some years ago I had to uninstall and reinstall the whole thing before everything worked well.

Richard