1.)Guitar to Computer connection
Actually there is a slight problem. Electric guitar outputs have a difference impendance (1kOhm) whereas microphone are usually between 300-600 Ohms and Line 10kOhms, this means that the sound will not be that good.
Some actually prefer the Line level input.
But the best option is to have a proper instrument input in your sound card or preamplifier.
If you have a any type of floor pedal it's recommended to use that one with the line input (even small distortion pedals can already lift the signal close to line level).
If you have multi-effect boards they all have line-level outputs. Everything that has a headphone output is close to line level.
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2.)Guitar Sound.
If you directly connect the guitar to your computer you will only get an unprocessed an clean sound.
There is a lot software to manipulate the sound on your computer such as Revalver MKII, Amplitube 2, Guitar Rig etc.... (most of them are costly). There is one free one which is really great: It's Guitar Suite something.
For that to work in real time (meaning you play and hear the sound) you need ASIO sound card drivers (if you sound card doesn't have those you can check out this wrapper: ASIO4ALL).
Unfortunately Audacity is not a realtime client so you need to check other programs for realtime sound manipulation.
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This post has been edited by Igorrr: May 24 2007, 10:30 PM