Recording Electric Guitar On Garageband

How to record your guitar in garageband.

Recording electric guitar on garageband. 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. Select the header of the audio or guitar bass track you want to record to. 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. To record through a microphone click the in the top left corner of your track list to create a new track.

If your computer has an audio input port connect an electric guitar to the audio input port using an adapter cable. 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. We ll look at recording your amp with a microphone sometime soon. Record sound from a microphone or an electric instrument.

Today we record some rhythm lead and bass guitars in our complete a song challenge. Record sound to an audio track. For example or an electric instrument such as an electric guitar connected to your computer to an audio track. Covered in this video.

Move the playhead to the point in the ruler. 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. 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.

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.