Instead of using an amp, I have a cheap adapter that allows me to plug my guitar cable into the 3.5mm audio input port on my laptop. I then use pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1
to route the input to my speakers and play guitar that way. This method has two issues, namely, latency starts off being unnoticeable but slowly increases until there is a very minute but noticeable delay between hitting a string and hearing it through the speaker and a lot of white noise present as long as the guitar is plugged in. I have tried using pactl load-module module-echo-cancel
instead of the former command to a moderate amount of success, but that module sometimes nerfs the notes played instead of the white noise. Is there any way to minimize the amount of white noise present? Would insulating the cables further help? I am using Linux.
Edit: Decreasing the gain of the microphone port helps but then I lose the compressed sound effect, which I wouldn't like to do.