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Plug in a guitar or mic - is is that simple?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:46 am
by geoffd99
Hi all
I have checked here for directly plugging in an instrument, I recall that there is a setting on the P2 card for hi or low input; I have 2 x Luna now, only refs here say it is too noisy.
I am away from kit now, just a quick question as I might buy a cheap preamp (Ultragain 200) for guitar & mic input.
Any ideas?
Geoff
Re: Plug in a guitar or mic - is is that simple?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:29 pm
by garyb
there's no mic pre in the card. the input is line level only. you need a preamp.
Re: Plug in a guitar or mic - is is that simple?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:36 pm
by astroman
it depends on your instrument...
you can plug in an active guitar directly (with cable adapter), because the guitar electronic 'buffers' the pickup.
With passive instruments the low impedance of the Scope card will put a heavy load on the pickup.
Imho this will not just steal highs, but also degrade it's tone to somewhat lifeless and muddy.
For passive instruments any pedal will do the buffering (as a workaround).
A proper preamp (or the lineout of your amp) would be a better choices, tho.
The Behringer is a rather crappy piece of gear, not because it's B but because it just sounds like that.
An Art Tube or a small Presonus would be better, a Boss ME50 is a pretty decent preamp, as I would expect the GT10.
cheers, Tom
Re: Plug in a guitar or mic - is is that simple?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:38 pm
by geoffd99
Hi
yes I had read that the Ultragain was poor, a small mixer has mic and guitar inputs, perhaps that is the simplest and most flexible way.
Thx
Re: Plug in a guitar or mic - is is that simple?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:40 am
by pollux
Don't buy a ultragain 200.. I have one and it's noisy as hell...