Hooking a Bass Guitar to My Compy

What would we need to accomplish this? Is it even possible?

  On 4/23/2010 at 7:42 PM, Sprigg said:

What would we need to accomplish this? Is it even possible?

Let me google that for you

yeah, there are many ways to do it.

first you will need some sort of software that will allow you to record/edit/sequence. hopefully you have this already.

next you will need a way to get the signal from your bass to your computer. this can be done through a mixer, recording the signal from your amp with a microphone, or with a USB/Firewire device (this is probably the easiest solution). something like this would work just fine, and would cost you between $100 and $200, which isn't bad.

you can go direct in and use VST's for amplification, or if you have a nice amp you can pass through that.

another solution is the mixer. you can get a cheap behringer for under $100. be careful though, as far as mixers go - you get what you pay for.

That thing looks pretty good, and from what little I've played with my M-Audio Oxygen 8, I like their products a lot.

Thankya very much, devil! Now, I pray that my shit soundcard can handle this.

  On 4/23/2010 at 8:24 PM, Sprigg said:

That thing looks pretty good, and from what little I've played with my M-Audio Oxygen 8, I like their products a lot.

 

Thankya very much, devil! Now, I pray that my shit soundcard can handle this.

no problem

if you are havin trouble with your soundcard, you could just replace it with a direct-in card like the delta 1010 instead of getting a mixer or a USB interface:

i used to have one and it worked great. they go for about $150 i think

i'm gonna get slated for this, but i've been known to hook the output of an electric bass guitar into the mic input of a laptop and record it without the amp. you really get a massive sub bass sound.

then add effects/digital tube amp distortion afterwards.

Whoa... I"ve been thinkin' about an external sound card type thing... cuz mine (and my driver) don't allow me to 'record what i hear' in any program

Margaret-- what would connect from the bass to the itty bitty little mic-in port on my laptop?

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Whoa... I"ve been thinkin' about an external sound card type thing... cuz mine (and my driver) don't allow me to 'record what i hear' in any program

 

Margaret-- what would connect from the bass to the itty bitty little mic-in port on my laptop?

One of these: http://www.optimization-world.com/img/prod/quarter_inch_f_to_8th_inch_m_medium.jpg

http://www.optimization-world.com/details/prodid/343.html?_g=G-343

Beautiful. Thank you, sir.

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be careful you don't over load your motherboard. Basses are highly resonant pulse-wave tensor modulation sources and can very easily fry your computational center wave structure.

this is completely impossible. give up now.

  On 4/25/2010 at 5:20 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

be careful you don't over load your motherboard. Basses are highly resonant pulse-wave tensor modulation sources and can very easily fry your computational center wave structure.

  On 4/24/2010 at 8:40 PM, thepilot said:

nigger-rigging 101.

wtf is this shit?