Having received the very latest Guitar Rig 4 release last week I have been playing and recording at every opportunity. It is amazing just how easy it is to get the power of a professional guitar application to work seamlessly with Apple’s Garageband multitrack recording application. I have decided to show just how quick and easy it is to start your own home recording studio using Garageband in a short video tutorial. Read more
Not too long ago guitarists had to rely on arrays of individual stomp boxes or expensive rack equipment to obtain the guitar tone of their dreams. Furthermore recording guitar tracks was a complicated business with carefully placed microphones and speakers into multitrack tape recorders.
In the home studio environment guitarists used four track recorders to get their ideas down on tape or mini disk with more time being spent setting up the recording environment than actually playing. Read more
Posted on September 1, 2009 in:
Misc
It is hard not to be excited by today’s news that Native Instruments are on the verge of releasing Guitar Rig 4 Pro, the next generation of its acclaimed guitar studio. The fourth version raises the bar on sonic authenticity with advanced new speaker emulation technology, and further expands on nearly all aspects that sets Guitar Rig apart as the most capable digital guitar solution. Read more
I’m definitely no stranger to connecting a guitar to a Mac for some Garageband recording but Aspyr software have come up with a guitar system that completely transforms my playing to a whole new level.
We have been fans of the Guitar Hero & Rockband games for a while but finally they have arrived for the UK Mac market in harmony with one of the biggest rock bands of the last thirty years. Read more
Integrating the power of the Apple Mac into my guitar processing set up has always been a bit of an ambition. I have even addressed Guitar and Garageband in a previous post. Having eyed up the Native Instruments Guitar Rig Session for some time we managed to get our hands on one to put it through it’s paces. Low cost guitar to computer interfaces are becoming more and more popular and although this this is great news it brings with it the challenge of selecting the right device. Read more
