[jgztw2es]

I might be stupid or sound like it. But why does the recorded sound of my guitar on my PC sound nothing like the sound from the speaker in my AMP? My PC is connected by a 3,5 jack on the Line-In. It sounds nothing like the sound I hear.[thumbdown] [surrender]

[IvJlNwum]

possibly the sound card? AND im willing to bet alot of the sound your looking for from the distortion from the amp.
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[XiWm9O9S]

Amp works way differently than your PC, in a nutshell.

[crazuMovies]

It's just that Speakers are designed with absolute minimal distortion in mind and vice versa for Amps. Something like that, I've read about this before somewhere.

[ropinirole]

The amp has gain and EQ controls which transforms the simple waveform coming out of your guitar in many magical ways, whereas your pc simply records your guitar's output directly, without doing anything to it (unless you're using a guitar program)

[nuveem7070]

Try using a prog like amplitube 2 or guitar rig, it can emulate most sounds pretty well, i use them for recording.

[spamkillerj]

You need some kind of speaker emulation, the sound you hear is before it's outputted to the speaker.

You can either use VST emulation (usually from clean) or use impulses that take a sample eq from a speaker and use it for recorded tracks.

[spacecrafty]

What type of amplifier is it? Tube, transistor or digital modeler? If tube it must be recorded with a mic, due to the fact that the speaker colours the sound you hear. In the worst designed tube amps, the line out is placed before the signal reaches the output stage, thus making it essential to use a speaker emulator (Palmer is best) when recording. Even better designed tube amps with the lineout parallel to the speaker do require some sort of load/emulator.

[jgztw2es]

What type of amplifier is it? Tube, transistor or digital modeler? If tube it must be recorded with a mic, due to the fact that the speaker colours the sound you hear. In the worst designed tube amps, the line out is placed before the signal reaches the output stage, thus making it essential to use a speaker emulator (Palmer is best) when recording. Even better designed tube amps with the lineout parallel to the speaker do require some sort of load/emulator.

A VOX tube amplifier. With 3 big jack outputs, Head Phone, 8 Ohm 30W Ext. Spkr, Line Output. Edit: also the volume over line out seems to have very low volume where the head phone output connected to the pc is a bit to loud.

[egexgfczc]

If tube it must be recorded with a mic, due to the fact that the speaker colours the sound you hear. In the worst designed tube amps, the line out is placed before the signal reaches the output stage, thus making it essential to use a speaker emulator (Palmer is best) when recording. Even better designed tube amps with the lineout parallel to the speaker do require some sort of load/emulator.

Actually you can simply take the output directly from the amp output jack (the one where you normally attach a speaker cabinet) into an attenuator (such as Koch LoadBox, THD Hot Plate, and similar), and then directly to a preamp, and then to your soundcard. You can then use an impulse-based cab emulator (such as Voxengo Boogex), and change the cabs like socks until you are happy with your tone You can even run your gazillion watt tube amp at full blast at midnight, and no one will hear anything except you If you have a cabinet impulse from a cranked cab, you'll even get the sweet speaker breakup

And before someone who doesn't know what he's doing: DO NOT DO THAT WITHOUT A POWER ATTENUATOR, you will damage your tube amp.

[spacecrafty]

True, but the HotPlate has fixed attenuation levels. Between the lowest (-16dB) and load (dead silent) there's no choices. -16dB makes for very loud noises at midnight with a 100 watter. The Weber MASS is the way to go.

Or for those who (like me) know how to solder; read the tech articles over at Randall Aikens website and make your own attenuator.

[egexgfczc]

True, but the HotPlate has fixed attenuation levels. Between the lowest (-16dB) and load (dead silent) there's no choices. -16dB makes for very loud noises at midnight with a 100 watter. The Weber MASS is the way to go.

I don't mean the normal way to use an attenuator. I mean that the lineage goes like this:

Amp speaker output -> attenuator -> preamp -> sound card

That way you get the overdriven tube signal into your recorded stuff that you then process with impulse signals There is no sound coming out from the speaker cab (it's not attached), you go directly to the load box, and then out from its line out.

[spacecrafty]

Yea, I got that. But then we can't hear very good what it sounds like. Which is sometimes desireable when using certain playing techniques or pedals. Unless the mixer has monitors, of course.

[egexgfczc]

Yea, I got that. But then we can't hear very good what it sounds like. Which is sometimes desireable when using certain playing techniques or pedals. Unless the mixer has monitors, of course.

Yes, naturally you listen through monitors/headphones It's a little easier to control your speaker volume than a tube amp volume while keeping The Tone