This is my first post so be gentle. Hopefully I posted this in correct forum. I have a little dilemma about recording acoustic/electric guitar along with vocals via my GNX3000 by Digitech. Look at the photo to see all available In's and Out's. Image of the back of my GNX3000 Basically I need to record vocals and acoustic guitar at the same time, and I don't want to MIC the guitar. I want to use my acoustic guitar pickup only. I also need to get them on the separate channels onto the PC. My acoustic guitar doesn't have a preamp (just EQ with tuner), but the only preamp my GNX has is that MIC in you see on the left of the photo. Now, I could run DI Box and record acoustic via that, but then I would not have anywhere to plug in vocal MIC. I tried plugging my guitar directly into the "guitar input" (where I plug my electric in) but the sound is so weak and low. I am thinking about getting acoustic guitar preamp, but I wanted to see if there's any other way of recording vocals and guitar at the same time. I can do all of the above with my electric with no problem, but it's just my acoustic/electric (Yamaha FGX720SCA) that I have issues with. I know many of you don't own GNX3000, but it should be same with any other workstations. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance

Do you have a guitar amp for your electric guitars?If so does it have a line out,aux,pre-amp out?If so you could plug the acoustic into that and then take the higher level output from the amp into your device.The amp's aux output should raise the voltage to a decent amount to drive the input of your device. HTH :)

I have Fender Champ 110 so these are ins and outs: Guitar In Foot Switch External Speaker 8 ohms Head phones Will any of these do? But that is a great idea though.

It is a very difficult question to answer. Obviously the best option is to mic the guitar (I'm not sure why you don't want to do that), but it's a hit-or-miss with DIs and dedicated acoustic preamps. I say just try it with what you got and see if you're happy with the result.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I am still not sure how to hook everything up. You said to connect my acoustic guitar to the headphone OUT on my amp. But where do I connect my effects pedal to (see photo above for available connections). Guitar IN on my amp to line OUT on the effects pedal?

Well, I can record vocal via MIC Input on GNX which already has a preamp on it. My question was, headphone has only one 1/4 OUT while my GNX has two 1/4 inputs (left and right). Do I need a cable that has one jack on one end and two 1/4 jacks on other end? Meaning, plug one into the headphone and other end with two jacks into the GNX left and right? Or do I need only one regular guitar cable? Thanks again

The link doesn't work from some reason, but it doesn't surprise me one single bit. I never managed to get a natural sounding acoustic using the built in pickup, no matter how expensive the pickup was. I record acoustic guitars direct wither when I'm particularly lazy and this is just a demo I'm making for myself, or when I aim for that specific plasticy sound (which sometimes cuts great through a dense rock mix), or when hell freezes over. A mic, essentially ANY mic, when properly placed and processed, will get you far more natural results than the pickup.

Sounds exactly like a DI'ed acoustic to me... Regarding the Tech21 box, I have no idea. Never tried the myself, but I'm always skeptical of Harmony Central reviews. Note that this specific model has been discontinued and replaced by the Para Driver DI. I'll ask it again - for the 200$ or so that this box costs, you can easily buy a decent condenser or four... Why do you insist on a direct recording?

If mobility is your concern, I'd look at this: Check out the sound samples on the site, they're very impressive. A pretty decent general purpose condenser mic for less than 100$ would be - for instance - the Studio Projects B1, or something from the MXL series.