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So I have an Emu 0404 soundcard and a cheap guitar.

So I tried recording guitar and doing stuff with it on Reaper by connecting the soundcard with a guitar cable. So far so good, but...

I think I'm doing some really wrong here...

Laugh at me if you want, but I'm feebly attempting to get into this remixing for the millionth-ish time here and I THINK I'm starting to have a better handle of these things...

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Not sure what a Hi-Z input is, but I have it hooked up with a guitar cable into the white pci card L input. I'm pretty sure I'm going by the standard 0 db and not over it...

Also, my guitar actually makes regular flat guitar tone albeit in very low volume even on the max volume on my guitar. So I tried recording on Reaper with the recording monitor ON in one track with initial excitement, only to realize that its very disorientating and odd to have two seperate noises coming from the guitar through my speaker and whats actually BEING recorded. Even more so because the noises aren't quite in sync with each other....

So I'm either thinking that either 1. I need a proper preamp or something or 2. I need to tweak my patchmix dsp accordingly...which is something I have no clue about. : d

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you shouldn't be plugging the guitar directly into the soundcard because it isn't line level (the level at which most audio components work at)

you would need a preamp to get it to line level, otherwise you're losing a lot of resolution by recording at low volume then amplifying it digitally

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Not to mention loss of tone do to impedance missmatch (I am not sure on how/why this happens).

Anyways I do it anyways as I am too lazy/cheap/not good enough anyways to buy a recording interface.

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