Anyone Want To Help A Recording Novice?

I received Adobe Audition as a gift from a friend to use for recording, but I can't figure out how to record sound. My problem seems to be more general, though, not necessarily with Adobe Audition.

I'll be recording through a Boss GT-10 pedal, but my brother was also going to record his keyboard. We we're going stream the audio through a USB 2.0 cable, but can't seem to get any sound. I was prepared to possibly switch a few settings around in order to have it read the USB cable, but I can't seem to do that for the life of me.

This is what I've been changing:



I can get a sound through Microphone and SPDIF, but it's through the microphone and sounds awful. I've tried putting it on Line-in, which seemed like the best choice, but got nothing. Tried the other methods and still no cigar.

Is there something else I should be looking at? My Audition audio hardware setup page looks like this:



I appreciate any helps or tips you guys may have! In the mean time, I'll keep tinkering and see if I strike gold.

Got My B-day Present

Well, after listening to a lot of advice and getting to use the pedals for myself, I picked up the Boss GT-10 pedal for my B-day.

I'm very pleased with it and I'm glad all you guys here suggested it. The tone is great and you have a lot of tweaking options to play with. I'm still learning how to use it, but I'm having a blast! I love this thing, it is definitely worth every penny.

Thanks for the suggestion, guys. I love it.

Speed + Accuracy Training?

I seem to have a much harder time playing speed licks that are constantly changing between several strings as opposed to ones that tend to stay on two or three strings. I don't really feel that alternate picking is the problem, I just seem to fumble around a bit too much to make great accuracy with that kind of speed.

Does anyone have any warm-up or lesson suggestions to help with this? As of now, I warm up with scales and play them slowly at first and try to build on the speed until I feel that I can't play it accurately. As for learning the songs, I've just been slowing them down and learning the licks by muscle memory and trying to improve the speed.

Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Digitech And Line 6

I've been looking into picking up a multi-effect processor possibly around the end of this month. At first, I was looking into getting the RP350 from Digitech, but now I've also been looking at the RP500. From what I've gathered, the new features on the RP500 give the user more tweaking options and it's only $100 more from musiciansfriend.com

I asked a friend about his opinion on it and he said he's always preferred Line 6 over Digitech. I've heard quite a few people say the same, but I've heard quite a few say the exact opposite, too. I'd love to sit down with both products and test them out, but the closest store that would have them is about a 40 minute drive from me... and with gas the way it is, it wouldn't be pretty.

I was just curious to hear some of the opinions hear about the two. I've seen demos of both and from what I could hear, I couldn't say that one was vastly superior to the other. I'd like to test them both out personally, but it may have to wait. If anyone would like to share some feedback or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.

*EDIT*
Apologies if this is the wrong forum... I noticed the multi-effect subform was gone, so I figured it should go here. Sorry if this should be elsewhere.

Rp350 Question

I've been looking into picking up a multi-FX processor, and I think I've settled down on the DigiTech's RP350. So, I've been digging through some reviews and keep seeing users talking about plugging the output of the pedal into the return of your FX loop in your amp to get best sound.

I don't know if all of the users who reviewed the pedal were doing this, but some mentioned that it did sound much cleaner than simply plugging into the front of the amp. One also mentioned that you could plug it into the "CD IN" jack. Now, I'm a brick when it comes to stuff like this. I have no idea how to plug a pedal into the FX loop of my amp. I poked around in my user manual and couldn't find anything about the FX loop or about a CD IN jack.

A little help, please? I'm using a Crate FlexWave FW120 Amp (FW120). Would I see a huge performance increase by wiring this pedal into the FX loop, or should I just plug it into the front? If I need to plug it into the FX, could anyone give me some pointers?

Thanks.