Recording from a guitar to PC

p4radox

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A friend has asked me for assistance with recording from his guitar to his PC. He has an electric guitar, a "mixer", and onboard sound. He tells me that at the moment he is plugging his guitar into the mixer, then the mixer into his PC via a USB cable. Apparently he's experiencing about half a second's delay from playing a note to it being picked up by Cubase/Soundforge.

Someone told him that it was to do with the fact he is using onboard sound, but this doesn't sound right to me as he claims to be using a USB connection.

He has a budget of ~£50 to either buy a soundcard or whatever is needed to record his guitar on his PC. Can anyone offer any assistance? I know nothing about this kind of stuff. :p
 
p4radox said:
A friend has asked me for assistance with recording from his guitar to his PC. He has an electric guitar, a "mixer", and onboard sound. He tells me that at the moment he is plugging his guitar into the mixer, then the mixer into his PC via a USB cable. Apparently he's experiencing about half a second's delay from playing a note to it being picked up by Cubase/Soundforge.

Someone told him that it was to do with the fact he is using onboard sound, but this doesn't sound right to me as he claims to be using a USB connection.

He has a budget of ~£50 to either buy a soundcard or whatever is needed to record his guitar on his PC. Can anyone offer any assistance? I know nothing about this kind of stuff. :p
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This is a latency issue.
He needs to go into the USB audio interface's control panel and make sure the latency is at a low setting.

It could also be a problem with the software he's using to record stuff.
If the USB interface supports ASIO, then this should be checked in both the interface's control panel and in the audio recording software.
 
I don't get a noticeable amount with my Audigy 2 so your freinds can probably be fixed anyhow as suggested (and if not the M-Audio 2496 is a suitable card). However, a failsafe way around it is to plug your headphones into the mixer socket, so at least what you play is heard right away. The recording will still be delayed, but you can shift it back afterwards easily (my card has some delay recording but its not much of an issue).
 
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Thanks Ozzie, I'll pass that on to him as well. It does sounds pretty good, but I'm not a guitar player so I don't really know what all this is about :).
 
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