FS Project - Fuzzy/noisy guitars

[moxfulder]

Hi everyone -
Everything sounds fine when I record using my FS Project, however, when I'm recording electric guitar, I almost always get this layer of fuzz that muddies up the sound significantly. It seems that whenever my attack (strum) is anywhere above being really soft, this hissy/fuzzy noise shows up. This happens even with clean guitar, no matter how loud/soft my guitar is, no matter what mics I use and no matter where they are positioned, no matter how far below clipping I have the FSP set, no matter what input I'm using. I know it's not the mics since they don't cause this problem on other recording devices.

I'm using a new FSP with Logic Express 8 on a brand new iMac. Again, drums, vocals, everything else sounds fine! And it's definitely not coming through my amp. I can reduce this nasty fuzzyness if I roll off some of the extremely high end, but it's still quite prevalent. Am I missing something? Granted, I'm new to home recording, but this is just baffling! Anyone else experience anything like this? Can anyone help?

Thanks for any help!

[Roman]

are you recording direct to the FS on input 1 or 2 (hi-z) ?

[moxfulder]

No, I'm miking my amp. I've tired using all the inputs, but it's the same problem regardless. I have not plugged my guitar directly into inputs 1 or 2 (mainly because I prefer my amp sound to amp plug-ins), but I suppose I could try that and see what happens.

[Pianojam]

The only thing I could think of besides mic placement and bad mics is maybe there is a sample rate mis-match, or a clock source is not correctly set. That would probably affect all the tracks, but you might only notice it on the guitars because of their timbre.

[Roman]

is your signal too hot maybe? If other soundsources are fine....
I've done pretty good recordings with the FP using mics on guiter....

[thrasher32]

Hmm, I don't know man, I record a lot of guitar on the FSP via mic'd cabinets and they all come out ok, maybe you got a bad unit.

How come most of the problems reported are Mac problems. Maybe someone should spoof the Mac commercials on YouTube lol...