How to record guitar?

[renin]

Hello, I’ve been playing for the last 3 months. I’ve an Esp Ltd EC-256 electric guitar. Now I want to record my guitar on my computer. I have nothing except a guitar and a computer. Please guide me through the best and most convenient method to record my guitar playing. All the recommendations are welcomed. Thank you :)

 

[sleewell]

you'll need an interface to get the guitar signal to the computer. and then your computer will need a DAW and probably some plug ins to get the tone you want. you will probably want some way to hear yourself too beyond whatever speakers your computer might have like monitors or headphones. or lots of modelers these days have the interface built in so you can just go from the modeler to the DAW on your computer, that way you can shape your tone via the modeler so you might not need the plug ins.

 

[SymphonicDischord]

Are you PC or Mac? If you’re on Mac, GarageBand is a free very easy to use DAW with built in tutorials that will walk you through your initial setup and recording. What are you playing your guitar through now, an amp?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Hello, I’ve been playing for the last 3 months. I’ve an Esp Ltd EC-256 electric guitar. Now I want to record my guitar on my computer. I have nothing except a guitar and a computer. Please guide me through the best and most convenient method to record my guitar playing. All the recommendations are welcomed. Thank you :)

Hi there!
Do you have any means to amplify your guitar at your recording space at all? And if so, what is it?

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Hello, I’ve been playing for the last 3 months. I’ve an Esp Ltd EC-256 electric guitar. Now I want to record my guitar on my computer. I have nothing except a guitar and a computer. Please guide me through the best and most convenient method to record my guitar playing. All the recommendations are welcomed. Thank you :)

What are you looking to achieve?

Is it just to hear your playing back/practice? are you looping over sections and want to get ideas down? sketching a few riffs to remember later? songwriting? recording guitar tones?

There's a ton of options and different approaches and its really about just choosing the path of least resistance for what you have available and what you're looking to achieve.

 

[sleewell]

he gone lol

 

[Alex Kenivel]

 

[AlbertA]

Maybe just get one of these?

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[[Nathan]]

he gone lol

He went through guitar forums and was like

 

[renin]

he gone lol

I'm here buddy

 

[renin]

He went through guitar forums and was like

This is so funny. Definitely depicting all this situation, but I've been stuck in an errand, so couldn’t come here.

 

[renin]

you'll need an interface to get the guitar signal to the computer. and then your computer will need a DAW

What is a DAW? I'll have to look at it. So a need a DAW, modular, interface and speakers. I've a computer and speaker. I need to get a DAW, modular and interface.

 

[renin]

Is it just to hear your playing back/practice?

Yeah, and also want share my playing with my GF.

 

[renin]

Hi there!
Do you have any means to amplify your guitar at your recording space at all? And if so, what is it?

I've an AMP - Marshall MG15FX

 

[Sascha Franck]

Maybe just get one of these?

Unfortunately a pretty bad recording solution if you also want to use the onboard interface. Incredibly huge recording offset - something you really don't want to deal with in case you're starting out.

 

[Sascha Franck]

What is a DAW? I'll have to look at it. So a need a DAW, modular, interface and speakers. I've a computer and speaker. I need to get a DAW, modular and interface.

DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. A program allowing you to record, arrange and mix digital recordings (both audio and socalled virtual instruments).
You may not need that, though, depends on your needs.
So, do I get it right that all you want is to record a single guitar track or would you also want to record yourself, say, jamming along with a backing track?

I've an AMP - Marshall MG15FX

The easiest way for now would possibly be to connect the headphone out of that to your computers oboard audio interface's input and use a free software such as Audacity to record that.
Would cost you no more but an adapter cable from the HP out to your computer's interface.

That'd be a very simple recording setup - but maybe it'd be fine for a start.

 

[0XI0]

Hello, I’ve been playing for the last 3 months. I’ve an Esp Ltd EC-256 electric guitar. Now I want to record my guitar on my computer. I have nothing except a guitar and a computer. Please guide me through the best and most convenient method to record my guitar playing. All the recommendations are welcomed. Thank you :)

to get guitar into computer you need something with a USB interface in it, a lot of practice amps already has that built in, if it has a big USB jack it probably will send digital into computer. plug guitar into thing, then USB into computer.

once you get guitar into computer you need amp sims. usually amp sims are plugins, plugins are a "plugin" that runs inside a DAW, DAW is host. plugin is symbiote?

there are a lot of free DAWs, most real DAWs have a demo version that you can do a lot with. if you're brand new try ableton live first, it works with clips that are really easy to understand and play around with.

there are a lot of free amp Sims, my favorite free ones are Ignite Amps "The Anvil". https://www.igniteamps.com/#the-anvil

A lot of DAWs have built in Amp sims already, Cubase and Fender Studio Pro have really good amp sims built in.

come back when you have questions about drivers, sample rate, bit rate, latency, monitoring, and whether or not subscription based software is acceptably logical or fiscally evil