Recording Electric Guitar On Garageband

We ll look at recording your amp with a microphone sometime soon.

Recording electric guitar on garageband.

For example or an electric instrument such as an electric guitar connected to your computer to an audio track. If your computer has an audio input port connect an electric guitar to the audio input port using an adapter cable. Move the playhead to the point in the ruler. 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.

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. To record through a microphone click the in the top left corner of your track list to create a new track. 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.

Today we record some rhythm lead and bass guitars in our complete a song challenge. Electric acoustic vocals apple camera connection kit behringer guitar link ucg102 usb interface blue usb microphone lightning to 30 pin adapter garage band app hardware software for recording guitar on your iphone ipad. Choose built in input as the track s input source. 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.

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. 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. The time has come to record guitars. Record sound to an audio track.

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.