Easy Guitar Recording

You’ve practiced, you’ve improved, you’ve jammed, you’ve perfected your playing? Now it’s time to take it to the next level and record your music.

You might have seen pictures of professional recording studios with an endless amount of recording equipment. Don’t be intimidated; they also brew their beer with (dirty) water.

How

Professionalism is not necessarily about having the most expensive equipment at hand. It’s rather the mindset of making every detail count with the means you have at hand.

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First, you'll hear the dynamic mic (MTP 440 DM), then the condenser (LCT 640 TS). We've also added samples using the amp with a load box and a Greenback® impulse response. The last two samples feature a guitar sim that comes with Logic.

Of course, infinite power is always the gateway to an endless history of tinkering and tweaking around, mostly at the expense of the time one should spend on performing or practicing our riffs. If you don’t (yet) know what I am talking about, good for you. Here’s what you’ll need for most guitar recording scenarios.

First, you can mic any speaker cabinet regardless of its size. If you are using a single mic, you can only record one speaker anyways. It's also good to know, that the speaker choice has a bigger influence on your tone than the size of the cabinet.

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Start by pointing the mic directly at the cone of the speaker at a 90° angle. As this gives you the most amount of treble, you can now gradually move the mic off-axis to reduce high-frequency content until you're satisfied.

Activate the direct monitoring function of your audio interface to listen to your microphone signal without recording. This helps to find the right sound quickly.

When you position the microphone close to the amplifier, the room you play in will not noticeably affect your recording since the direct sound is predominant.

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Make adjustments to the microphone position if you’re not 100% happy. Be creative, and don’t stop until you’ve got the tone you’re looking for.

The microphone is key to your tone as it is your speaker choice! These two factors heavily interact with each other, but since there are a lot of standard speakers, it's easy to grasp what works with what.

A typical choice for a single mic setup is a dynamic microphone like the MTP 440 DM . I personally also like the Sennheiser MD421 but found that they sound very similar to the DTP 340 TT, which is just less expensive. The classics like the SM57 or E906 are solid choices as well.

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If you have problems with high volumes or the room acoustics, but still want to use your favorite microphone-speaker combination, you can use an isolation cabinet. An isolation cabinet (iso cab) allows you to mount your favorite microphone speaker combination inside a box.

An iso cab is perfect for home recording enthusiasts that want to have the “real deal” but are not able to crank the volume as they wish.

You can find several tutorials online on how to build your own DIY solution, but they're also manufacturers offering a professional solution, e.g., Grossman, Randall, etc.

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The guitar recording world has come up with a new and very effective way of combining the analog and the digital domain.

Today, you can use your amplifier and the tone you’ll get from it and combine it with digital fingerprints of a room-microphone-cabinet combination widely known as impulse responses or IR.

The (reactive) load box replaces the speaker and emulates its impedance. This ensures that the amplifier reacts to your playing as if it would normally do.

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It connects to your amplifier via a standard TS speaker cable. The signal can then be sent to your audio interface and recorded in your DAW.

Please make sure that the load box matches the impedance of the speaker that you usually use (4, 8, or 16 Ohm). Use a “reactive” load to keep the natural playing feel. Never ever use a tube amplifier without a connected speaker cabinet or a load box.

But you’ll need one more thing to make the signal also sound like a speaker. This is called the impulse response. You can either use a specific device to load an impulse response or you can do it in the DAW.

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In the guitar world, the impulse response is the result of a measurement taking three things into consideration: the room, the speaker, and the microphone (position).

You can find a lot of free IR loader plugins on the internet. Just insert the plugin on your audio channel and insert the .wav file of your impulse response. There is a huge variety of impulse responses provided by enthusiasts or highly professional studios specialized in producing the recording best experience. The following recording chain is for using an IR with a load box setup.

Make sure that the input on your interface is set to Hi-Z, which stands for high impedance. Some audio interfaces feat. a dedicated guitar input.

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The quality really has improved over the last couple of years, and many of my friends use software-only guitar recording chains, e.g., Neural DSP, Bias FX, or the Line6 Helix Native plugin.

In the beginning, these things can seem a bit overwhelming. But the most important thing is just to get started and try them out. With a few adjustments, you will quickly get a good sound. The technical possibilities that are available to us today go far beyond what we are used to from our favorite albums.

How

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Recording

An electric guitar is capable of a wide range of sounds. And, is unique in that the amplifier and the speakers are as much a part of the sound as the instrument itself.

This means that to record the “true” sound of the electric guitar, you ideally need to capture the sound coming from the speakers with microphones.

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The concept of recording electric guitars is completely different from that of recording acoustic guitars for multiple reasons. The frequency and dynamic range are different.

Nowadays, pretty much everything is recorded digitally. Mostly because of the convenience as well as the fact that it requires a lot less hardware in comparison to traditional analog set-ups.

In my opinion, the sound quality is not affected if you decide to record digitally. Just make sure all your recording equipment is up to par and you should be good to go.

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I should point out that if you are going to be recording electric guitars digitally on a computer, then you will need a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).

This is the software that allows you to capture and mix your recordings. I personally use Reaper. It is just a personal preference, however, Some of the most popular and best DAW for recording guitar include:

In order to take an analog signal and convert it into a digital signal, you will need an Audio Interface. If you are just going to be recording one thing at a time, then I recommend an interface with a few channels.