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From: gary@ism780c.UUCP (Gary Swift)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: guitar audio signals
Message-ID: <8948@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 02:31:23 GMT
References: <502@m10ux.UUCP> <22670@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@ism780c.UUCP (Gary Swift)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <22670@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> lisper@yale-celray.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper) writes:
>In article <502@m10ux.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
>>
>>Do turntables put out the same  audio signal as electric guitars?
>
>Plug your guitar into "AUX" at your amp. I've been doing this with various
>keyboards when I've been playing with them at home and it works just fine,

Were your keyboards (pre)amplified?  I've tried this with a
(nonamplified) electric guitar and it didn't work, but it *did*
work by going through turntable inputs.  I don't remember the
sound quality though.  My experience is that the signal from
an electric guitar, a microphone, and a phonograph are similar.
(Hmmm, I wonder if you could plug a microphone into the phono
jack?)

The easiest way I've found to play an electric guitar through a 
stereo system is to plug it into the mic jack of a tape deck, put 
the deck on record, and hit the pause button (unless you want to 
actually record what you play).  You can put special effects 
boxes between the the guitar and the tape deck too.  With the 
right "Y" cables, plugs, adaptors, etc., and a second tape 
player, you can construct a rudimentary "recording studio" 
capable of mixing and overdubbing.  

Special attenuating cables allow you to pipe the (amplified)
output signal from one tape deck into the mic jack of another.  
Otherwise, you need to play the first tape through the speakers 
and rerecord onto one track of the second tape via microphone.  
This method looses a lot of fidelity with each generation though; 
about three is the limit.
-- 
I alone am responsible for my opinions.
Gary Swift, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp., Santa Monica, Ca., (213) 453 8649
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