u/Agitated_Concert_795

I'm doing something wrong

I finally bought a Squier Classic Vibe after wanting one for a long time, but something feels off when I play along with backing tracks.

I'm running my guitar through a Behringer UMC202HD into Carla with amp sims. Even after dialing in tones, my guitar never feels like it's part of the song. It sounds like it's sitting on top of the mix instead of blending in.

I know my playing isn't perfectly tight yet, and the backing track is louder than my guitar, so those are definitely factors. But I'm wondering if I'm missing something in my signal chain, EQ, compression, reverb, latency, gain staging, or amp sim setup.

Has anyone else experienced this? What helped your guitar sit "inside" the mix instead of feeling disconnected?

u/Agitated_Concert_795 — 8 hours ago

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Help Needed - this might seem very trivial but it is frustrating.

I've been preparing DSA for months, but I honestly don't feel like I'm improving.

I'll solve a problem, and if I come back to it a week later, I often can't remember how I solved it. It feels like I'm memorizing solutions instead of actually learning the thought process behind them.

The same thing happens with contests. I participate, but I rarely go back and upsolve because I keep telling myself I need to study the underlying topic from the ground up first. As a result, I end up doing neither.

Has anyone else been stuck in this cycle? How did you break out of it? Did something change in the way you practiced, or is this just a normal phase of learning DSA?

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u/Agitated_Concert_795 — 8 days ago