Korgscrew
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Posted: Jan. 11 2006, 11:52 |
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Yes, you'll be able to amplify the guitar by doing that, but it might not sound wonderful. Mic inputs are the wrong impedance for guitars, so plugging into them will usually give a rather dull sound. That said, it's not entirely unpleasant and it would at least let you hear the guitar; it just won't be a sound that you'll find terribly exciting.
Distortion will sound fairly horrid, and won't do your speakers much good either. Guitar speakers are specifically designed to have quite a limited response, so that the treble frequencies get filtered out; when they're allowed to pass through, the distorted guitar sounds like a wasp stuck in a jam jar. That said, some of Mike's recent recordings have featured that kind of sound, so you may like it.
Feedback is good! Not when your hifi speakers are involved, though. I doubt that you'd stand much chance of getting feedback when playing through your hifi anyway - it would have to be turned up pretty loud.
I would personally suggest buying an effects unit with an amp simulator built into it, if your budget can stretch to it. That would give you a much more usable sound, and would tame the distortion so there'd be less risk of burning out the tweeters on your speakers. I seem to remember it's not always terribly good for cassette decks to leave them in pause for a long time, so the amp simulator would save any problems there too. It would also let you play on headphones, and make recording to the computer easy, if you come to feel like doing that. Best of all, you'd have a big selection of exciting sounds to play with.
I should be working as a salesman...
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. Now I know that, in order to really use the guitar, I need to count about 50-70€ extra on top of the guitar.
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