all right i've got my guitar connected at the moment and this is part four to the recording
a song with a budget audio interface series and today i'm going to be recording my guitar which is
a squier guitar it's nothing too fancy a budget guitar and i'm recording it into my behringer um2
and we're going into tracktion waveform plus i'll use a free guitar amp sim i'm zane welcome to
simple green tech and just so you know there's links to all of the software that i'm using plus
the behringer um2 down in the description in case you want to get any information on
any of this stuff but right now let's jump into tracktion and start recording all right so here's
the song that we've been working on and i've re-recorded the bass guitar so it's no longer
a scratch base i didn't want to do a separate video on that as we've already recorded bass
but this is just the final bass hopefully that's going to be in the song and that's this track here
this is the old scratch bass up here and what i'll do with that is i'll actually right click
on it and shrink the track so it's kind of out of our way it's muted and no longer relevant
so what i need to do right now is create a new track and this will be for recording our guitar
so i want to switch this to input 2 i'm going to arm it for recording now i usually name my tracks
before i'm recording them that way it gives the actual wave file the name of that track
so i'm going to name this guitar one and i'm actually going to record three different rhythm
guitars for this song and i'll talk a little bit more about that later but right now i'm
going to add amplitube as my guitar amp sim and you can get amplitube custom shop which is free
i'm just using the amplitube free presets so this is going to be available to everyone
and i'm going to use this big 800 rhythm preset for guitar one so here's what the
song sounds like just in case you forgot or you didn't tune into any of the other videos
so i've got the track armed for recording
our levels are decent and just need to hit the record button i'm going to try to record
the full length of the song so i'll probably cut off the actual recording and then come back
when the full recording is done is going to take me a few takes i'm sure
all right it took a few takes but i have the whole song recorded for the first guitar part
all in one take right here it's a pretty basic song so it was fairly easy to do here's
a bit of what it sounds like i'll start near the end of the chorus section here
so now what i want to do is record a second guitar in so i'll create a new track
i'm just going to call this guitar 2
and then i'll just copy this down by holding ctrl and clicking and dragging amplitube down here
but this time i'm going to switch up the preset that i'm using so i'm still going to use the
crunch but this time i'm going to go with the light crunch here which is a different amp model
altogether so now i'm going to unarm guitar 1 and arm guitar 2 but i also have to change the
input to input 2. and again we're ready to record i'm actually going to mute guitar 1 so i don't
hear that i'm just going to hear this guitar track with the other so let's start recording
all right so i've recorded guitar two and there's sections where the strumming is slightly different
from guitar one and what i'm going to do is i'm going to pan guitar 2 all the way to the
right and we'll pan guitar one all the way to the left so let's listen to how these sound together
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and i appreciate it so much now let's get back into tracktion and now i want to record a guitar
3 in and guitar 3 is going to be slightly lower than the rest of the guitars but
it's going to be down the center just to fill the center area with a guitar and in
case somebody's listening on a mono device like maybe a smart speaker or
bluetooth speaker or something like that so again just add a new track name this one guitar three
set it to input two arm it for recording and again i'm going to copy amplitube down onto
guitar three and i'll choose another preset from the free presets here all right so i have my third
guitar recorded in here and guitar one is panned all the way to the left guitar two all the way
to the right and guitar three is going to be right in the center but it's going to be at a much lower
volume it's just to kind of fill the center area with the guitar a bit in case somebody's listening
on a mono device and it also fills it for stereo devices as well but what i'm going to do now is
i'm going to click and hold ctrl on my computer keyboard to select all three of my guitars then
i'm going to right click here and create a sub mix containing these three so now this one sub mix can
control the volume for all three of the guitars at the same time so let's hear how it sounds
all right that's not too bad and what i can also do is add eq and compression to all of the guitars
right on this one sub mix track so i don't have to do it to each individual guitar but i'll get
more into that in the mixing video in this series now if you want to continue on with the recording
a song on a budget audio interface series click the video on the screen right now and if you liked
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon