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i couldn't find the hole on my acoustic guitar to plug it into my computer.

>Is anyone else recording music at home?
I do field recording, which is technically not exactly at home. Does that count? I'll see if I have some decent recordings left.
With sensitive mics, recording and then listening carefully makes you more aware of surrounding sounds. Never noticed ambient sound pollution before. Couple of times cars from the road nearby fuarrrked up good records of birds, or crickets in summer spoiled intense traffic recordings.
>couldn't get rid of a chirping sound, tried the same with my keyboard but it would send a lot of noise even when the instrument was turned off
Post pics of your guitar. Is there any control board near the output? Pick ups come with pre-amp, see if you can change volume there and see if it change chirping. Keyboard noise sounds like AC adaptor that transduce hum on synth circuit. Also connecting cables could be noisy. Anyway, nice to see someone using real instruments, as majority of home music now is made in DAWs.

My setup: Tascam DR-05 and surroundings, including steel sheets, pipes and other garage garbage

>>2563
>Does that count?
Sure, it's the same spirit. I love field recordings that involve thunderstorms.
There are moments when I'm listening to music and a car passes by with its engine humming at the same tone as the music, or a bird's chirping sounds one octave higher than some truck's claxon and it makes for an "I wish I was doing a field recording right now" moment.

>Post pics of your guitar
Here, one like the one in this pic, mine's like five years old, played live with it but this is my first try on recording.
Tried turning the potentiometers all the way down one by one, tried a different cable, a different 6.5 to 3.5 adaptor, and fiddled a bit with the software but the chirping stayed. I don't think it's the guitar's fault because the keyboard chirps too, maybe it's the computer or some program because both instruments sound fine when plugged directly to an amp, but connecting the amp's headphone output to the computer brings new noise (sample attached) even though guitar -> amp -> headphones works great. Tried to record using ardour but couldn't get it to work, it's more complicated than audacity.
I suspected the AC adapter could be crapping up the keyboard's signal, too bad I'm not into noise.
Thanks for the ideas, I'll keep trying.

>>2564 here
Found that Audacity's noise reductor can deal with the keyboard's noise and even turns the chipping into an actally enjoyable background sound.
Recorded something, here it is.

>>2568
that chirping is lovely actually. nice playing lainon

>>2564
Nice guitar. How long have you been playing guitar?
>and fiddled a bit with the software but the chirping stayed.
>guitar -> amp -> headphones works great.
If it sounds normal on amp, that leaves only computer. Find something else to record on.
>>2568
This chirping is pretty good texture. Liked the whole piece - you could really do good ambient if you use midi + some modular synth on computer.

Here is one of the old recordings.

>>2569
Thanks! Yeah, that sound was a cool surprise.

>>2574
>How long have you been playing guitar?
5 years, I think.
>This chirping is pretty good texture.
It turns out it was audacity's fault, or one of the programs it uses. Recorded the guitar with ardour and it semi-worked, couldn't get it to play it back to me, instead I exported the audio and filtered the mic's/cable's noise with audacity and it came out a lot better, no chirps.

Glad you liked it, I'll try to find a midi cable and learn some ardour because it's full of stuff I don't use.

>Here is one of the old recordings.
Nice, are all sounds from the same location?

Just did a Guitar Improvisation!
May post more if you want to...

>>2576
This was chill as fuarrrk. Do you have a soundcloud or other music sharing account?

>>2576
That was great!

>>2576
Nice! What equipment are you using?
Added a second guitar track to yours.

>>2575
Use computer to process guitar too. Some modular chain like this: EQ -> distort -> echo -> filter -> flanger -> reverb -> output + mix some original signal. Would be nice along with ambient synths.
>Nice, are all sounds from the same location?
Yes, all from one location. Recorded on a bridge going over railroad, near train station. It's a cargo train passing below the bridge, with few cars passing behind recorder.

>>2576
I liked first third of track most. Wish you did not break first speeding-up variation and just played more in such way. Still pretty good.

Here is some more.
This time not an acoustic song, but rather what I like to call short impressions, as they are not really songs.

>>2577
>>2578
thanks,
I don't have a place to share music currently and only plan to establish one when I have a real body of work.

>>2579
I am using a Yamaha FG700MS Guitar and a MXL 2006 Mic there.
Here I am using my epiphone sheratone II as a guitar and various vst synthesizers.

>>2580
> Wish you did not break first speeding-up variation and just played more in such way.
I know what you mean. I got kind of impatient somewhere, since improvising slow pieces can be quite taxing on your concentration, and keeping them interesting enough is pretty hard even when you don't make it up on the spot.

>>2576
I really like this, when you get a few tracks you like, post them.

I got a reverb and delay pedal today and made this ambient track with my bass guitar recorded on a Zoom H1.

Another one I just recorded.
On a sidenote, I just realized I really need a synth/vst suited for more normal sounds..

>>2582
Liked the first one, loved the second one. I'd be up for some long impressions when you put some music up somewhere.

>>2606
Sounds great, I wouldn't have guessed it was a bass.