Recording Electric Guitar On Garageband

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

Recording electric guitar on garageband.

If your computer has an audio input port connect an electric guitar to the audio input port using an adapter cable. We ll look at recording your amp with a microphone sometime soon. How to record your guitar in garageband. 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. 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.

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. 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. For example or an electric instrument such as an electric guitar connected to your computer to an audio track. The time has come to record guitars.

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. Choose built in input as the track s input source. Select the header of the audio or guitar bass track you want to record to. Covered in this video.

Record sound to an audio track.