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RECORDING GUITAR USING AUDIOPHILE FIREWIRE AND GUITAR RIG 3

Hi, is it possible to record guitars using RCA ins? Do I need another interface with 1/4 jack ins or something else? I used to have line 6 pod and was using its spdif out to communicate with the sound card spdif in. Everything worked flawlessly for me then. Now I would like to try guitar rig 3. I want to use the sound card as the interface and plug my guitar directly into it.
Any tips?

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  • nikos1995 Jan 25, 2009

    I'VE DOWNLOADED GUITAR RIG 3 AND WHEN I PLUG MY GUITAR IN I CAN HEAR NOTHING... MY SOUND CARD IS :REALTEK HD AUDIO (IT'S ONE WITH MY MOTHERBOARD ) ANY SOLUTIONS ?PLEASE ANSWER BECAUSE GUITAR RIG IS VERY GOOD...

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I've ran the audio in on my sound card to my mixer and had the guitar on the mic in.  I've also ran the line in to a small cracker amp.  Keep it turned down. If I would directly connect it use an adaptor.  I haven't tried using a 1/4 to 1/8 adapter and directly connected to it as I wanted to control the tone. I don't see why it wouldn't work.  Keep everything muted and turned all the way down when you first connect it.  Then start raising volumes slowly  I will try and report back As far as spdif you're just recording analog to digital conversion.  I get more realisitc sound just keeping it analog til it hits my line in.  Have a quality sound card.  Not some walmart special.  I use Adobe Audition 1.5 to multichannel record.  

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