Tracktion Waveform 10 is a solid piece of DAW software in this tracktion tutorial
I'm going to show you how to record your guitar using a free guitar amp simulator
and I'm also going to show you loop recording and then how to edit your
audio by comping takes waveform 10 makes this incredibly easy keep watching
welcome to simple green tech I'm Radio Zane and on this channel I do audio tech
tips tutorials and reviews to help you unleash your creativity today I'm
digging into tracktion waveform 10 doing this tracktion tutorial to show you how
to loop record guitar and then edit your audio by comping takes and if you don't
know what comping takes is I'll get more into that in just a little bit for this
video I'm using my Epiphone guitar I've got a curling cable going direct into my
focusrite 2i2 and I'll link to that audio interface in the description below
just in case you want some more information on it but right now let's
get started all right with waveform open I'm going to add the free guitar amp
simulator plug-in AmpliTube
now I'm going to set the trap to be on input 2 which is the input on my focusrite
2i2 that I'll be using and I'm going to arm it for recording I'm just
going to choose a preset here so we're actually ready to start recording right
now but before we record I want to change a few settings for loop recording
the first thing that we need to do is to set these markers for about 8 bars so
now we have a loop point here and then we want to go down here and click on
loop and that's going to tell it to loop while we record and then we also want
the click track on now you may not have changed any of the settings with your
click track I highly recommend going over to here where it says click track
and then go to pre-record count in length and I use 1 bar you can use
however many but this is so you get a count in before it actually starts to
record gives you a little bit of buffer time and then the other thing I like to
change is to use loud clicks to emphasize bars and we're now ready to
record so I'm just going to hit record and you'll hear the countin and then we
will start recording after it counts in the 1 bar
ok so I have my recording and it looks like just a single track here but if you
click on this little plus sign down here you'll see that I have all of these
takes so I want to show takes and here we are with our takes it looks like I
did seven takes this one really wasn't anything here so my playing was pretty
rusty I haven't played guitar for a while so what we're going to do is
highlight one whole bar here so we have something up here in our comp track now
if we want to change the different bars here say we like this take two bar one
we'll keep that but now we may want to hear what bar two sounds like on this
track here so we just click and drag and highlight it and now up here in our
composite track up here it's changed it to this bar now we may want to change
this bar here to this track and this one to our seventh track
and this one will put back here
and now we have a composite track made up from all of these tanks here
let's hear what it sounds like now my playing was pretty rusty I didn't really
know what to play here so I just kind of came up with something but we're just
looking at the composite track not on my playing ability
so now there was one take there I think it was this one here that I didn't
really like so I'm gonna change that one out now and we'll put this here let's
hear what that sounds like
and then if you don't want to see all these tracks anymore you're happy with
that composite track you can just click the plus again then hide takes and we
just have the one composite track here other things you can do with it are you
can flatten the current comp which would flatten all of these into your composite
track and you would only be left with the composite track it would actually
destroy all of your tanks so I don't really recommend doing that because you
may want to go back and use another take later on so I usually just hide the
tanks you can also unpack all of these tracks to new tracks which mean they
would go into track 2 3 4 5 6 etc and you may want to do that if you wanted to
double up on some guitars and you want to use those takes that's fine if you
want to do that you can really see how powerful this feature can be forgetting
the perfect guitar recording or even vocal recording or whatever it is you're
recording you can use the loop recording and comping technique click this video
here to see my free guitar amp simulator comparison video and click this one down
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