recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud

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2011/08/13 17:28:24 (permalink)

recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud

hello

i am using a samson mic on a stand and placing it in front of my guitar amp to record onto MC5.

My mic goes into my sound card jack at the back of the computer.

When i play my recording back on MC5,  the guitar sounds very distant, and i can only make it louder on playback by highering the
gain in MC5, but this creates more hiss..

am i doing something wrong? i want to record  a loud guitar sound..


thanks


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    Beagle
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    Re:recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud 2011/08/13 18:18:31 (permalink)
    the onboard soundcard is not going to give you good results, remember.  is this the same mic you talked about before too?  it's not going to be great either.
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    Re:recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud 2011/08/13 22:55:36 (permalink)
    using the soundcard in the computer will not give good results since they do not have preamps built in.

    A dedicated audio interface (depending on the model) will generally have nice pre's built in.

    And what is the mic model number that you are using?

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    Re:recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud 2011/08/13 23:08:19 (permalink)
    How high is the recording level?
    If it's too low, like -46 or something equally faint, you can A. turn up the amplifier or 2. raise the recording level. I don't know how that is done with a USB mic. Check the manual.

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    Re:recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud 2011/08/14 07:20:19 (permalink)
    thanks for all your help
    so are you saying if i get one of the soundcards that Mr Beaglesounds reccomends then i will have no background hissing at all? or is the hissing something  else.

    just curious

    the Samson mic is  a Q7
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    Re:recording my acoutic guitar but the sound is not very loud 2011/08/14 08:30:01 (permalink)
    Hissing can be a lot of things and if you get a condensor mic you'll still get some if you don't have the mic and preamp setup correctly, but gernerally speaking the hiss should be mostly eliminated from a good recording soundcard and mic.

    yeah that's that same mic we were looking at before - it's not the best mic for recording, IMO.  I know you said you didn't have a lot of money, but I really think you'll be happier with the results if you get something like we were discussing in the other thread.

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