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Sway Grunt
May 15, 2004

Tenochtitlan, looking east.
I'm having a problem trying to record my acoustic guitar. I've been using a standard guitar cable to plug it directly into my Mbox2 and so far everything has been fine. Since yesterday, however, the sound has begun to distort a bit whenever I plug it in, instead of sounding clean as it has been for the last two weeks. The guitar sounds fine when it's unplugged so I figured it's a cable issue. I bought a new one but the problem persists. I have tried both of the Mbox's inputs and it's the same with both, so I don't think the Mbox is the problem.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I know nothing about guitars save for how to play them.

Here's a sample of what it sounds like (sorry for the crappy host, I don't have a tindeck account yet):

http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=67434

Edit: I forgot to mention it, but the only thing I did that was different yesterday was put a capo on my guitar. However, it does sound like this even without the capo on now; could putting the capo on have messed up something with the neck / pickups / whatever?

Sway Grunt fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Jan 31, 2007

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Sway Grunt
May 15, 2004

Tenochtitlan, looking east.

OptimusCrime posted:

Have you tried a new battery in the guitar?

No, I haven't. I did check if the battery was empty but it's not. I'll go out and get a new one right now, though. I hope the solution is this simple.

Edit: It really was that simple. Thanks! :)

Sway Grunt fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jan 31, 2007

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