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I haven't tried that. I figured 0.0 gain should be fine, but hey, maybe I'll like the sound better with something negative.

Alright, I picked the Orchid Micro for my DI box and plugged it in and messed with guitarix's Ardour plugins. Right away, I noticed using a DI box made my bass's sound infinitely more, I guess, "present" in my computer rather than distant, and so so malleable by the effects at my disposal....

emarsk--That is a really good idea. I'll do it the next time I have someone in here with me. bazsound--I'm not sure, because the knobs on my bass aren't labeled. Should I just try turning them all down and turning up the gain on the computer? If it's going through Guitarix, should I turn up the pre-...

Yeah, I was researching them and ran into Radial's stuff as well. So, if I'm only going to use this for recording an electric guitar, bass, and keyboard, do I need the transformer? It seems like I'd be sacrificing sound for safety with one. Should I spend some more money on a Radial Pro48 (like the ...

So, when I mentioned I didn't know much about the Guitarix effects, I meant it--I didn't even know about the Amp Impulse, Cabinet, Impulse Response, and Tonestack modules or what they could do until I tried reading the wiki just now! I've checked /usr/share/gx_head and I suspect these IR files are a...

At first, I didn't use software monitoring in Ardour, and that didn't improve the sound of my other bass. I'll try it on this one. I use SB as output because I have a very makeshift-yet-great speaker system, and I haven't bothered to learn how to plug speakers into my M-Audio card, or even if I can....

Right! Here are some examples.

So, I finally got myself a Fender Precision bass, and while it sounds a lot better than my last one, it still isn't as amazing as I hoped. I'm running an M-Audio Delta 1010LT, JACK2, Ardour, and Guitarix. Going directly from Guitarix to my speakers, it sounds amazing, but once I plug it into Ardour,...

What kind of program would be best for an extreme level of sound manipulation? A sampler? I have jsampler installed, but I haven't checked it out and I don't know if it's the best for that. Or is it petri-foo?

Thanks! I think I should be able to figure it out from here. I thought it had something to do with importing audio files into Rosegarden, but I guess I need to learn Qsynth. A college class I started between now and when I first made this topic has actually taught me how a synth works, so Qsynth mak...

Funny story about that--my parents named me after Jimi Hendrix, but had James be my legal name for some reason. In middle school, I had a teacher who gave me this nickname because of that song, but it wasn't until a few years later that I got into the Beastie Boys myself. So I guess you could say it...

I've read the Rosegarden manual and looked around the program itself, as well as Googled and searched this forum, and I can't find what I'm looking for or figure it out myself (and I might be looking in the wrong place for all I know). I'm 100% new to MIDI, synths, and everything else Rosegarden doe...

Hello, all. I've been a musician for a long time (bass, guitar, and learning piano), but I'm just now getting into writing music. Thanks to school, I actually have plenty of experience working with Pro Tools and condenser mics, so I didn't start out completely in the dark when, over a month ago, I b...