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Creating Professional Guitar Sound on PC
Guitar as an electric signal source, guitar pickup's characteristics. Guitar with pickups produces electric signals according to vibrations of guitar strings. The signal quality and properties depend of type of pickups and many other conditions. But pickups produce electric signals for further amplification and processing so I explain it in details. Single Coil Pickup: Old Fender pickups are single coil units. This compares to Gibson, which started using double coil (Humbucking) pickups in 1957. Single coil pickups have a single slab of wound wire around magnet(s). Single coil pickups are easily influenced by outside noise. This would include 60-cycle hum and fluorescent lights. Signal noise ration for this type of pickups is around 65..75 dB. Humbucking pickup: This type of pickup has two single coils combined into one unit. Each coil is reverse wound so that the hum from first coil cancels the hum from the second. Signal noise ration for this type of pickups is around 75..85 dB. The longer the pickup wire and more turns used, the higher the resistance. Also the higher the resistance, the louder or "hotter" the pickup. But be aware, higher resistance comes at a cost: lose of treble frequencies. This is why single coil pickups have more treble and less output than Humbucking pickups (which use two coils). Hence Humbucking pickups have more mid-range and are "hotter". Also this is why single coil pickups that are wound with tons of wire (to approach Humbucking ohms) don't sound very good. Usually pickups have the resistance around 5..9 kOhms and produce electric signals around 0.1..0.5 Volts. Both resistance and output voltage of guitar pickups are not very bad for microphone or line input of ordinal sound cards. payday loan lenders How do Guitars Monsters make their great sound ? Usually they use the typicall set of audio equipment. As a rule it consists of a tube pre-amp (ADA), analog solid circuit distortion box (Ibanes Tube Screamer or SansAmp), power tube amplifier (Mesa Boogie, Vox, Marshall), special guitar speakers (Marshall, Celestion) and microphone mortgage quote (Shure 57 etc.) placed in front of the speaker. All parts are essential.��������� ������� ������� It is very important to note that guitar signal never is recorded directly from pre-amp or power amp output, but always from microphone.
For the meanest metal imaginable! Levels of grinding gain and singing sustain previously unattainable without the use of powerful tube amps at high volume. Hybrid tube/solid state distortion circuitry gets it all, from subtle overdrive to extreme saturation worthy of the blackest metal. Three-band equalization with a parametric mid to cover the sweet spot between 200-5kHz allows for a range of brutal tones, including the scooped mid sound of Metallica or Pantera. Where other distortions aren't enough, this kills.
Features: Hybrid tube/solid statge distortion circuitry
Three-band equalization with parametric mid control Anonymous enthusiast wants to share excitement about finally discovered secret of elusive warm guitar tone he has sought for years. He has tried all sorts of rackmount preamps, power amps, effects units, combo amps, and so on. He has finally found the secret to a warm guitar sound; this may help others looking for the same classic warm guitar crunch and long, smooth sustain! You can hear the sound examples in RealAudio format, created by Takaaki Yagi on similar set of audio equipments,  Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer Effects Pedal The sound of this set of audio equipment is more of a straight rock sound like old Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, George Lynch, AC/DC, and so on, rather than the modern highly fx-processed sounds of players such as Steve Vai, Satriani, and Petrucci. Of course you could add any effects you wish at the console. Fig. 3. Typical Guitar Speakers. Metallica's James Hetfield: The last time I used a distortion [overdrive] pedal was on Ride the Lightning, and it was hell. It was an Ibanez Tube Screamer like Kirk uses. It really helps his solos cut through, but it puts a shitty coating on smooth rhythm tones, and it was hard to make it not sound like a pedal. You can recognize Marshall distortion in an instant; that's why I shied away from that and went with MESA/Boogies. I basically use the Boogie's distortion with a non-programmable studio-quality Aphex parametric EQ to fine-tune certain frequencies, dipping out some of the midrange. All my speakers are Celestion Vintage 30s."Metallica is the cover story for Guitar Player Sep 1991, which I have. James: "I use a lot of mics... up to 8. I use them to phase-cancel each other, to control the sound like with an EQ but instead of an EQ. ... for the 1991 album, I'm using MESA Boogie amps, with ADA MP-1 tube preamp, but Boogie Simul-class II is the main part of the sound. Cabs: Boogie for clean, cutting stuff, Marshalls with 30 watt Celestion Vintage 30s for warmth." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hardware Digital Audio Effects & Guitar Processors  Rocktron VooDu Valve™ - Tube Guitar preamp plus Digital Processor Digitech, BOSS, DOD, Roland and, may be, Zoom are very good looking things. Guitar Effects Processors have great functionality if you believe in words that manufacturers and magazines like "Guitar Player" are saying! But you understand they are advertisement words only. Note: Professional guitarists use Guitar Effects Processors not very often. Why? The real sounds from the devices are far from advertisement in guitar magazines. At the same time, why we can't find WAV or MP3 files with sound examples of such devices. I have scanned hard Internet and failed to find them, but I have found a lot of sound examples from different analogue solid state (transistors) and tubes based pre-amps, power amps and distortion boxes. Some famous Guitar Effects Processors use analogue and even Tube pre-amps and distortion sections!  Rocktron Prophesy Tube Guitar Preamp with Digial Effects  DigiTech Genesis 3 GeNetX Guitar Desktop Processor 
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Usually, we have "big jeck" or 1/4" jeck at the end of a guitar cable.
At the back side of PCs usually we can see 1/8" holes. So, you need to buy in nearest computer or music shop a 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor.
It costs around $1..$2. Then you can plug in your guitar into the blue color hole at the back side of your PC.
Usually this hole has "Line" title. Don't forget to plug in your stereo headphones into black color hole (with title "spkr")
at the back side of you PC. Now you can tune your sound card audio mixer. Go to the Windows 95/98/2000/XP "Sart" menu at the bottom right corner
of PC screen, choose "Run" option, type "SNDVOL32.EXE" and press "O'k" button. You must see a picture like you can see in
Set up all slieders exactly in the same positions as you can see in the article.
Now you are ready to get some for free software from my site, install and run it.
Now try to play something on your guitar and you hear that your personal computer works like the best traditional effects pedals or stompboxes!
You must know that you can find in the Ineternet hundreds titles of free audio effects softwares for your PC.
It means you can enjoy with the best world distortions, sustains, reverbs, choruses, flangers, delays, equalisers, tube amp simulators
realy for free using only your personal computer!
