In another forum I read about recording on your computer via the line in and using a program like audacity. I haven’t tried it yet, cause that would require me moving my computer closer to my keyboard, but… I have a distortion pedal hooked up. Is that gonna damage my computer at all?
I wouldn’t have thought so at all, but I’m no expert on computer recording….but generally ‘line in’ inputs can handle plenty of gain, it might just be a case of turning the input gain down on the recording software to stop it overloading, I’d imagine the worst that would happen is it would distort (not in a nice way)
I’m sure some others will chip in soon who are more familiar with this kind of stuff.
The sound card would be the component to worry about. Try to find out what the model number of your soundcard is, and check the specs to see if it’s up to snuff.
You’d probably get better results if you record your tracks to something like the EHX 2880, export the files over to your computer, then mix the files down in Audacity.
I think my sound card is Realtek something or other… I wouldn’t even know where to begin to figure if that can handle the pedal. It’s just a curiosity… So I don’t want to spend money at this point to get better recording equipment, but I’ll keep the EHX 2880 in mind.
