Recording Guitars....., Tips and Tricks......and a Question Options

[slowintrepid]

Hows it going, I had a couple questions about recording guitars on my Mac. Basically my I obviously wanna get the best sound I can from my setup so here it is:

1 Bright Sounding Acoustic Gutiar w/ built in fishman pre amp
2.Epiphone SG electric guitar
3. Marshall MG-80 solid state guitar amp

ok so I have my electric going into my amp then the line out of my am into the built in sound card of my PowerMac G5 and it doesn't sound very good.

However I have my acoustic guitar going straight into my computer via the built in pre amp and that sounds just like I was playing it live.

so 1. I wanna know how can I get out the clangy jangley sound from my acoustic (new strings lower gauge) and how can I get my electric to sound better and should I use amp distortion (mines so so) or should I use something like Amplitube

also I feel that this is a fairly elusive subject for s

[visualmusic]

I would have to say I agree with all of you guys. Recording direct isn't the best way to go. The only time I record direct is with my acoustic because it has a decent pick up (the new Taylor Expression System). However, I always record with a condenser mic at the same time so I can blend the two. The direct is always more treble than I need, and I find that the mic does a better job of picking up the bass (depending of course on where you place it).

So on the mix I have two channels that I blend. I tend to throw the bass (mic) to the left, and the treble (direct) to the right so I get a full sound.