Hello all, I’m fairly new to recording and I’m trying to pinpoint what’s wrong with my setup. Currently it’s as such: Gibson SG > Noise Gate > Compressor > Boss Blues Driver > Dream Amp Sim > Steinberg UR22 > FL Studio (clean track no EQ) My problem is that any time I try to add any distortion int…

A DI box makes an unbalanced signal a balanced one and matches the impedance of the guitar out to the preamp in. The DI inputs on many audio interfaces do the impedance matching only. Ideally, a DI input doesn’t change the tone of the instrument.

So not a DI box. I’ve been messing around with my setup and I can’t get anything good out of the distorted guitar. It sounds like any time the signal starts to break up there’s an overlying fuzzy, crackling, static that overwhelms the tone. It doesn’t matter what pedal set up I use, which makes me t…

Well, it is not clear where the problem could come from. Very vague description. Where do you add the distortion sound? Maybe you can send a recording, just some seconds.

I add the distortion sound with a pedal. If I turn the gain all the way down and play a clean signal it’s okay, if not a little pitchy, like the highs need to be rolled off. As I turn up the gain and the signal starts breaking up the crackling becomes very prominent. Won’t let me include a link on …

Recording distorted guitar sounds like static

Steinberg Hardware UR Series

st10ss August 25, 2023, 6:34pm 6

You need to read some more posts to get more privileges on the forum.
Then you can drag’n drop audio files on the post editor to add them here.
No linking needed.