USB Guitar

[jiujitsu_jesus]

How crazy is this (http://www.behringer.com/IAXE393/index.cfm?lang=ENG)?! :cool:

[Akira]

Or you could plug your guitar into your soundcard then use amplitube or something like that.

I don't see what's so new about that.

Oh yeah, the USB thing, big wow. :rolleyes:

[jiujitsu_jesus]

I thought it was cool because you get the USB guitar and the software with stompbox modelling for only A$200 - cheaper than a Squier Strat. :D

[suicidalmoose]

just a cheap copy of the variax which has a similar thing but it runs through a digital coax cable or somn, behringer guitars ... a bit dodgy.

[Akira]

I thought it was cool because you get the USB guitar and the software with stompbox modelling for only A$200 - cheaper than a Squier Strat. :D

Yeah, but the quality at that price is probably ****. :p

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

a very cheap alternative to something that might sound good. tell you what.. run down to radioshack (or whatever you have in AUS) and by a 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor for $3 USD (maybe like $4.50-ish in AUD) and run a guitar into the line in on your computer, download something free like audacity, or kristal, and run your set-up as such:

Guitar ---> effects pedals or amp ---> line in on your computer

VOILA! you just achieved a sound probably of about equal sound quality spending less than $5... you can use the other $195 to buy something more useful for recording, like an inexpensive sound card/audio interface... then your quality will definately be better!

[pure]

i was playing a probably $40 target (store) guitar with a built in amp that had a line out and a usb port. a kid brought it to school and im awesome. so i dont think $200 is worth it if there was a $40 one with a built in amp.

[jiujitsu_jesus]

a very cheap alternative to something that might sound good. tell you what.. run down to radioshack (or whatever you have in AUS) and by a 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor for $3 USD (maybe like $4.50-ish in AUD) and run a guitar into the line in on your computer, download something free like audacity, or kristal, and run your set-up as such:

Guitar ---> effects pedals or amp ---> line in on your computer

VOILA! you just achieved a sound probably of about equal sound quality spending less than $5... you can use the other $195 to buy something more useful for recording, like an inexpensive sound card/audio interface... then your quality will definately be better!

:eek: I have seen the light! Thanks muchly, 6strngs!

[suicidalmoose]

lol, well a lot of these things are pretty gimmicky tho, nothin like the feelin of raw analogue sound being cranked up with heaps of gain on a good quality guitar.

[jiujitsu_jesus]

nothin like the feelin of raw analogue sound being cranked up with heaps of gain on a good quality guitar.

That, my friend, is what I don't have. ;)

And thanks to everyone who posted for telling me about this thing... sorry for starting a thread over nothing! :o

[suicidalmoose]

hehehe. dun worri i always like to see what's happenin in the guitar tech world and it was quite interesting to see that behringer had joined the whole digital guitar race. i think though, digital guitars are going to become like transistor amps, every1 will for the next 10 or 20 years be going on about how traditional electric guitars sound so much nicer and less harsh and so on so forth until such time as digital guitar emulation becomes awesome and then the slow switch will begin.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

hehehe. dun worri i always like to see what's happenin in the guitar tech world and it was quite interesting to see that behringer had joined the whole digital guitar race. i think though, digital guitars are going to become like transistor amps, every1 will for the next 10 or 20 years be going on about how traditional electric guitars sound so much nicer and less harsh and so on so forth until such time as digital guitar emulation becomes awesome and then the slow switch will begin.
blasphemy! I think that, like transistor amps, digital guitars will be a cheap alternative to get a close replica to a sound that they couldn't otherwise afford, but the people who can afford the real deal can and will. (you must admit, tube amps are still highly desirable, it's just that solid states are cheaper, and most people can't afford a tube amp, but if they could, they would)

[suicidalmoose]

but lets face it if you're at a level where u can make use of equipment then you're probably willing to invest money in it. Granted I won't be buying a tube amp in the near future, mainly because i like my guitar to be great rather then my amp (half the time it's just PA systems anyways) so i invest money in guitars instead. And trannies are only just getting as good as tube amps, so I expect USB guitars to take time to replicate the feel and tone and just the feeling of guitars in general.