Dynatube has insanely high noise floor!?
Isn't it inherent to compressors and distortion effects to amplify noise levels?
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As I said Atom I've not had this problem with other devices and thats with either vocal or guitar (without DI up untill recently). But yes your right voider , that gain staging has to be watched carefully. I don't know if this is the case for real world guitar rigs but in my case the amount of wiring and connections (unbalanced) has probably got alot to do with it.
A real amplifier has one or more high impedance inputs for best matching with the guitars' pickups.
You would need to substitute this environment in a computer setup for best S/N-ratio. Depending on what kind of interfacing you have you can either just plug the guitar straight in or through a DI+Pre-amp-stage.
You would need to substitute this environment in a computer setup for best S/N-ratio. Depending on what kind of interfacing you have you can either just plug the guitar straight in or through a DI+Pre-amp-stage.
a good example for the effect of 'damping' the guitar by relatively low input impedance 
A budget solution could be the M-Audio AudioBuddy (80 bucks), which has 2 mic/instrument inputs and both symmetric/asymetric line outs plus phantom power for condesor mics.
For guitar and vocal it's exceptionally good (considering it's price), but strangely it seems to lack definition for bass.
I was very sceptical about the latter statement (which I had read from a reviewer on the net), but it's exactly what happened with my instruments, too - and I would have much appreciated the 'pure' bass on the 2nd line.
the specs don't reflect this at all, so eventually one depends on one's ears - as usual...
cheers, Tom

A budget solution could be the M-Audio AudioBuddy (80 bucks), which has 2 mic/instrument inputs and both symmetric/asymetric line outs plus phantom power for condesor mics.
For guitar and vocal it's exceptionally good (considering it's price), but strangely it seems to lack definition for bass.
I was very sceptical about the latter statement (which I had read from a reviewer on the net), but it's exactly what happened with my instruments, too - and I would have much appreciated the 'pure' bass on the 2nd line.
the specs don't reflect this at all, so eventually one depends on one's ears - as usual...

cheers, Tom