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Originally Posted by marinoFret
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Originally Posted by krissovo
If you plug into the mic of the sound card Windoze XP has a microphone boost check box in the sounds settings. If you click on advanced it will bring up the big volume control window, then click on the advanced button for the microphone and it is in there.
You get loads of boost so be careful or you will blow things
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That is a problem. IT BOOSTES TOO MUCH! My speakers are gonna explode! That's why I'm searching for some app where I can do it manually. |
Try plugging your guitar into the "line input" instead of the mic input and use the volume fader for the line input (I mentioned how to do this above) to adjust the volume.
Guitars have a hotter output than microphones and especially acoustic-electric guitars since they have active pickups/electronics in them which will boost the signal to line level. The mic input is designed for very small signals from microphones and anything that is not a microphone (guitar, processor, mixer, line output from an amp, etc) should go into the "line input" on your soundcard. Even if you could get a decent level from the mic input it'll never sound good, because the mic inputs are designed for those cheesy $3 "computer mics" and the preamps are very poor quality. So basically for recording purposes, avoid the mic input at all costs.
-tkr