Guitar software/hardware problem?

[killthenakedcat]

I guess this will be for you guys who play electric guitar out here...I have amplitube 2 and amplitube 2 Jimi Hendrix edition...bot guitar amp modeling software and top notch by the way...anyways heres my problem...i bought a USB audio interface...USB soundcard for better sound quality running from guitar to effects processor to computer thru the interface rather than the line-in or mic-in..anyways I'm having trouble...I will go into further detail if I get some replies from people who know whats I'm talking about because it's rather long and detailed so answer back if you might know..thanks in advance...

 

[george2]

What are the usb audio interface and sound card for a start? Whats the problem with it? It's kinda hard to know what your talking about when the only thing i know is that you have amplitube and some unknown problem with it.

 

[killthenakedcat]

its a cheap Behringer interface... a UCA202 as I am short on cash...well it seems to be that I plug it in it takes over as my soundcard as it should, I have to download asio2ks driver for it and its supposed to be a control panel icon, so I put it in my system32 folder like it says but i doesn't show up in control panel, so I change the settings of the asio2ks by clicking the icon in the system32 folder...

anyways I restart after doing all this to make sure all changes have been saved and I load up amplitube 2. I change my technology setting to asio and set INPUT to asio2ks, CHANNEL 1 to USB CODEC DEVICE, OUTPUT CHANNEL 1 to USB CODEC DEVICE 1 and USB CODEC DEVICE 2 for second channel

I set sample rate to 48000 and Buffer size to 1024 and click OK....I have my guitar running into an effects processor for signal boost which runs into the left output of the UCA202 using 1/4 to 1/8 cable and I have the speakers in the LEFT OUTPUT or the headphones output which would work basically the same and all I get is sound coming from them from Winamp or Youtube when I play videos or anything I hear sound perfectly but when I play the guitar the input monitor doesn't move really and all I get is fuzz from th program...not a lot but enough to hear but no guitar sound comes out...anything else?

 

[george2]

Is the program registering an input? Also your plugging the guitar into the output? Wouldn't it be more likely that you would get sound out of it if you put it into the input?

 

[killthenakedcat]

oh sorry it was a lot of writing so I do in fact plug the guitar into the left INPUT sorry..haha i'm an idiot but it does come from the output of the effects pedal that's probably why I got confused...it's set up right as far as I know...guitar into processor input, cable from processor output to input of UCA202, speakers connected to the output, USB connected to comp of course...

 

[compfused]

OK I don't know if this will help but I had the same problem with some other software (Guitar port) What I had to do was plug my guitar in through the interface plug the interface into the usb slot, run a converter chord thing from the headphones out jack in the guitarport interface into the microphone in port on my laptop, then set the primary input (possibly output I don't remember) device to be th guitar port interface. Also even with the interface I got crappy sound so what I ended up doing was using my mic and the microphone line one on the interface and mic-ing my halfstack, which ended up sounding really good, then I used some production software to clean it up. Hope this helps.

 

[killthenakedcat]

this is gunna be very time consuming and confusing I can tell

 

[killthenakedcat]

I have a feeling I'm not gunna get this UCA202 to work with Amplitube any other suggestions for recording like a mic pre-amp or something other than a mic to record with cuz I'm on low budget

 

[compfused]

Mic-ing the cab isn't expensive, it's probably one of the cheapest alternatives you can find. Guitar port 99.99 (I got the 229 model but it's only for more inputs) and a decent mic is what, 40-50 bucks, The peavey I use is like 39.99, I use it to mic my half stack andto record acoustic stuff, so the audio quality isn't bad at all.