Recording Electric Guitar Direct

The software method offers great flexibility you can record your part and modify the tone later at the mixing stage.

Recording electric guitar direct.

Decide between mic recording or using a direct box di. Even if i strongly encourage you to record your electric guitars with any of the traditional ways i ve mentioned in the previous articles i must admit that direct recording the performance of a musician is by no means a bad idea. Modeling amps and cabs in the box will tax your system especially as you begin to layer guitars. When running a guitar directly into the mic input of a mixer plug the guitar into a direct box first then plug the direct box into the mixer.

Recording the sound of your electric guitar by miking your amp is a great way to simulate studio quality sound. There are actually at least two ways to do this. However this will require expensive equipment like a quality amp microphone and potentially sound dampening equipment or material. Electric guitar might be the first instrument to come to mind when recording direct.

The first is called re amping which means taking a direct signal you ve recorded through your computer and sending it to an amp where you then record. Tools like spire studio s verb 65 are a great way bypass your amp leaving less in the way between you and getting your ideas down. But the hidden cost is recording latency. We recently wrote about the separate guitar tracks.

Recording electric guitar direct and through an amp. Published in pre mastering tips on. For the sake of understanding some of the more fundamental variables involved in recording the electric guitar we ll first plug directly into the mixer.