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Re: guitar audio signals

#18567
From: Bjorn Lisper
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1988 00:09
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In article <8948@ism780c.UUCP> gary@ism780c.UUCP (Gary Swift) writes:
>In article <22670@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> lisper@yale-celray.UUCP (Bjorn
>Lisper) writes:
>>In article <502@m10ux.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
>>>
>>>Do turntables put out the same  audio signal as electric guitars?
>>
>>Plug your guitar into "AUX" at your amp. I've been doing this with various
>>keyboards when I've been playing with them at home and it works just fine,
>
>Were your keyboards (pre)amplified?  I've tried this with a
>(nonamplified) electric guitar and it didn't work, but it *did*
>work by going through turntable inputs.  I don't remember the
>sound quality though.  My experience is that the signal from
>an electric guitar, a microphone, and a phonograph are similar.
>(Hmmm, I wonder if you could plug a microphone into the phono
>jack?)

Hmm, my experience is from a Farfisa electric organ (yeah, the good old one)
and DX7. Both run well through guitar amplifiers as well as through AUX.
From this I assumed that a guitar probably also would sound fine through
AUX. Apparently I was wrong.

Bjorn Lisper
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From: lisper@yale.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: guitar audio signals
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Date: 10 Feb 88 00:09:08 GMT
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