Specifications
Click on the Insert row where you want to insert ReValver
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. Select the plug-in by selecting it from the menu.
ReValver will appear as a mono or stereo plug-in depending on your track. ReValver will be found in the
“Harmonic” sub menu.
Recording the Guitar
Recording a Guitar is not as easy as it might seem, but it doesn’t have to be dicult. If your Guitar is not
powered by a battery (and very few are), then it is generating an electrical signal which is not compatible with
most sound cards.
There are common electrical standards between audio gear, and unfortunately the Guitar falls completely
outside those standards because it is passive. The electrical signal from the Guitar is the result of the
movement of metallic strings over a magnetic pickup, and this is rarely accept able as an electrical source
when you connect it directly to a computer sound card
Connecting the Guitar to the sound card
Here are three ways to connect your Guitar to the computer:
1) The simplest option is to hook it up to the sound card Line-In jack using a suitable connector, usu ally a 1/4”
to 1/8” adapter. The advantage is that you don’t have to buy any additional gear (except maybe the cable
adapter) but the sound is not ideal, probably not even good. The reason for the dull and boring sound is due
to an impedance mismatch.
The sound card input is designed to accept input from electrical devices which have adequate driving signal; a
Guitar does not have enough signal. The input impedance of a sound card is in the order of a few thousand
ohms (kOhm), while ideally, you want it to be around a mil lion ohms (1 meg ohm).
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