Recording Great Guitar Tones on a Budget new series for beginners

stonevibe · July 2023

I'm just starting a new series on my guitar blog, it might be useful for a few of you, or people you know that are looking for some help.

Especially, if you are new to recording the guitar.

I'm going to start off pretty basic and it will work its way up to some more advanced lessons over the coming months.

The first part covers some handy free software and the following parts will feature a mix of audio recording, and microphone techniques, plus some useful mixing tips and ways to create/record specific guitar tones.

Recording Great Guitar Tones on a Budget - Part 1

I didn't want to write the "War and Peace of guitar recording" in one article, as it would be off-putting for a lot of people, so I'm starting gently.

Also, if anyone has any specific topics they would like me to cover in the future, then feel free to add them here or message me.

BigLicks67 · August 2023

Something on warm/clean amp plug ins would be useful to an IT neanderthal like myself. The ones that come with garage band are pretty harsh sounding to me.

PolarityMan · August 2023

If it was my series it would go.....Wait for a sale...buy archetype: gojira.

PolarityMan · August 2023

Ok so my constructive criticism would be you kinda take a survey of some of the things you ened like a daw and some plugins but you dont actually go through step by step of making a recording. I would prob focus an intro article less on selection of software and be more presecriptive and say..use this, this and this, then here's exactly how you make it work together in a recipe format if you know what I mean.

stonevibe · August 2023

I agree with the how to do it section. Though, first I have found recommending tools to use can be helpful for complete novices. This will be ongoing and so I’ll cover more techniques over the series. Plus, I know a lot musicians that don’t know how to use a DAW and so it could also encapsulate some of this information at some point early in the series.

As my old career was training Logic and setting up recording studios. I’ve experienced a lot of training and helping musicians to get results.

My biggest audience is currently from the USA and I get a lot of traffic also from Europe. The suggestions from you guys is really useful and so I’ll take it all onboard for my next few articles.

stickyfiddle · August 2023

Good idea - seems to be a lot of them popping up lately! So many articles on blogs seem to pop up with the most noddy stuff but no detail on how to actually implement the vague concepts they talk about. Feels like a lot of this content is written more for SEO purposes rather than providing useful resources.

I'm in perhaps a slightly weird position where I've spent a lot of time in studios recording etc etc and know the basics of what to do to get a good recording and make it sound good (mics, VSTs, EQ, compression, adding low-mix parallel effects to fatten stuff, etc etc), but I have little clue how to implement that in a DAW. I'm learning that stuff now so anything along those lines would be fab. Or even just direction to other good resources would always be helpful.

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