The chain is fine. The guitar goes into a little practice amp with no overdrive. From there a patch cable is connected to the amp (through a 1/2 to 1/4 inch adapter) and goes into the mac's line in port. When I turn on monitoring I can hear the sounds fine. As I said in a later email, I have no clue what I did but it all works now. I just hope whatever I did doen't get undone as I'll not know where to even start looking to fix it again. :)
On 8/13/12, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Could be any number of things. Is your guitar/amp coming through in > general? If you make an audio recording in quicktime does that work? > Just want to make sure the physical chain is working first. If not, > double check that the audio input selected is 'line-in' not > built-in-mic. Also, as the name implies, this is expecting a line level > input, not a mic level. So if your amp is outputting something > pretending to be an XLM mic to intended for a mixer preamp, that's going > to be too weak. You'll need a preamp or maybe choose a different output > from your amp. Likewise, don't be pumping 100 watts of speaker output to > your Mac's line input :) > > CB > > On 8/9/12 10:44 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> I tried exactly that on the advice from another list. The problem is >> that my instrument is not being recorded, or at least is not being >> played back when I play the song after doing a recording. Also, I >> pasted in my mp3, and it plays, but I can't find it in any of the >> tracks. I see a grand piano, my bass track, and a track called "audio >> 2". I got rid of grand piano as I didn't create it and don't need it, >> but what is audio 2, where is my mp3, and why is my bass not >> recording? I hear myself in my speakers (I have monitoring on) so I >> know the setup is physically working, but gb seems to not want to >> record it. I was sent a nice gb tutorial which you and others helped >> to create, but I still can't get this to work right. I know you're a >> gb expert, so hopefully you can shed light on this. Thanks! >> On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Ricardo Walker <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This sounds like a whole lot of work when you can just use >>> Garageband. Paste the audio track in in your GB project, press >>> command option N and select real instrument from the dialog and press >>> enter to create a real instrument track. So, if you press the Letter >>> R for record, the track will start playing, and your real instrument >>> track will start recording. Start playing your guitar, and press >>> space when your done. >>> >>> Ricardo Walker >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>> www.appletothecore.info >>> >>> On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> Here's the problem: I want to record my guitar along with a song >>>> playing on the mac. >>>> Here's what I have: >>>> an amp going into the line-in port of the mac, >>>> the latest Soundflower release, >>>> an aggregate audio device set to use built-in input and soundflower, >>>> audacity, recordPad, and vlc for recording, >>>> vlc, quicktime (modern and v7 as recommended by Chris) for output (I >>>> also have iTunes, but hate it). >>>> >>>> So, given that, how can I do this? The way I see it, I need to >>>> record my aggregate device in my recorder. The problem is piping the >>>> song I'm playing with into soundflower, and still being able to hear >>>> it as it plays so I know what I'm doing. Of course, I don't want to >>>> lose vo speech, so I can't just redirect system audio to soundflower >>>> (besides, I'd lose the song then anyway). Am I misunderstanding how >>>> this works? That is, will I in fact lose audio I pipe to >>>> soundflower, or will it still play through the speakers connected to >>>> my headphone jack? I'm using a Mac Mini, if that matters. Thanks for >>>> any thoughts. >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>; >> http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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