Recording Electric Guitar Direct

Recording electric guitar direct and through an amp.

Recording electric guitar direct.

With the advent of higher quality amp simulations it s easy to get a great sound without an amp on hand. 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. 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. However this will require expensive equipment like a quality amp microphone and potentially sound dampening equipment or material.

The software method offers great flexibility you can record your part and modify the tone later at the mixing stage. 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. But the hidden cost is recording latency. Recording the sound of your electric guitar by miking your amp is a great way to simulate studio quality sound.

Published in pre mastering tips on. 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. 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. Today we will discuss direct recording an electric guitar.

Electric guitar might be the first instrument to come to mind when recording direct. We recently wrote about the separate guitar tracks. You already have an amp you like and some pedals to boot.