After recording an electric guitar you have plenty of options to affect the tone as the amps have eq and fx pedals to compress etc.
Recording electric guitar on garageband.
Plugging your guitar directly into garage band through an audio interface obviously won t get you the best sound ever but it s not bad and it s very easy and worth exploring.
Record sound from a microphone or an electric instrument.
Today we record some rhythm lead and bass guitars in our complete a song challenge.
Connect the electric guitar to a channel on the audio interface or the adapter cable using a standard 1 4 inch tip sleeve instrument cable.
For example or an electric instrument such as an electric guitar connected to your computer to an audio track.
We ll look at recording your amp with a microphone sometime soon.
The time has come to record guitars.
While many would argue that the only way to accurately capture an electric guitar performance is by mic ing up your amplifier and hitting record in my latest video i share 3 ways that you can directly input your guitar into your mac so that you can record it in garageband.
How to record your guitar in garageband.
Move the playhead to the point in the ruler.
Even though you re recording guitar click the microphone icon to open an empty audio track and check the box that says i want to hear my instrument as i play and record.
If you want to record feedback on the electric guitar you will need to connect the output to your speakers and boost the main volume.
In this 9 chapter guide we discuss everything related to using an acoustic and electric guitar with garageband for both amp modeling effects processing and recording.
To record through a microphone click the in the top left corner of your track list to create a new track.
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Covered in this video.
Select the header of the audio or guitar bass track you want to record to.