best way to record guitar at home?

I have gotten lazy. I used to run a 50 foot speaker cable to my daughters bedroom and mic a 4x12 with a couple of mics. then I would spend hours trying to decide if it sounded good or not. Now I just use my Neural SLO-100 plugin and I have happy as a tick on a bloodhound. plus I am not dropping hundreds on mics and also not pissing off my daughter anymore haha.. the last being the most important obviously.
 
I'm with you too. I bought a bunch of recording gear a decade ago and have never really gotten going with it. I'm pretty certain I'll never play in a band again at this point, so really want to just learn to record stuff, but never can get myself to invest the time to get over that initial learning hump.
 
guitarnate2000 said:
I have gotten lazy. I used to run a 50 foot speaker cable to my daughters bedroom and mic a 4x12 with a couple of mics. then I would spend hours trying to decide if it sounded good or not. Now I just use my Neural SLO-100 plugin and I have happy as a tick on a bloodhound. plus I am not dropping hundreds on mics and also not pissing off my daughter anymore haha.. the last being the most important obviously.
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I am just picturing a little girl sitting there playing with her dolls, and in the corner is a halfstack mic'ed up blasting away riffs...lol.
 
True studio quality recording :thumbsup:

Balance the recorder on the bottom lip of a high end amp like the one shown in the below pic and you're good to go .





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JackBootedThug said:
get one of those torpedo joints or just a sm57 or 58? I have no experience with it and have no idea how to proceed. Everytime I try to record I spend more time trying to figure out how to record and change settings than playing. Then I get pissed and make stupid threads like this. Or bomb other guys threads about recording. I'm like the tourettes guy dealing with this shit.

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Pretty sure I mentioned this in one of your older recording threads, but the way I think about this is how I learned to do it. POD 2.0 or Behringer V-Amp direct to interface. I also started with an entry level Focusrite interface. Don't worry about IRs, mics, plugins, etc.

And like RaceU4her said, make sure your settings are right in your DAW regarding latency. If not sure, do a screen shot of your settings and post it up. Using something simple like a POD or V-Amp direct to interface may help with latency as well. Once you get that down you can start to worry about IRs and plugins and all that. But for what you are doing, you might not have to bother with all that additional frustration.

Either way, good luck!
 
I had one of those little Sony microtape things I used to record riffs on in my apartment. It wasn't hifi, but it got the job done.
 
Cordoba said:
Pretty sure I mentioned this in one of your older recording threads, but the way I think about this is how I learned to do it. POD 2.0 or Behringer V-Amp direct to interface. I also started with an entry level Focusrite interface. Don't worry about IRs, mics, plugins, etc.

And like RaceU4her said, make sure your settings are right in your DAW regarding latency. If not sure, do a screen shot of your settings and post it up. Using something simple like a POD or V-Amp direct to interface may help with latency as well. Once you get that down you can start to worry about IRs and plugins and all that. But for what you are doing, you might not have to bother with all that additional frustration.

Either way, good luck!
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yup-I used cheap line 6 pod beans and floorboards in the past with audacity and it just went great for what I was doing. USB from the pod to my computer. Whether I was jamming to a backing track or just recording some tracks for a possible song. For some reason now I just look at this shit and BOOM...get pissed and quit. I need to just chill the fuck out and watch some tutorials and fiddle with it.
 
JackBootedThug said:
yup-I used cheap line 6 pod beans and floorboards in the past with audacity and it just went great for what I was doing. USB from the pod to my computer. Whether I was jamming to a backing track or just recording some tracks for a possible song. For some reason now I just look at this shit and BOOM...get pissed and quit. I need to just chill the fuck out and watch some tutorials and fiddle with it.
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I still use a Line 6 UX-1, and have another laying around somewhere. I'll give it to you if you want it.
 
IMO, axefx or an interface and plug ins are best for at home, by yourself, recording. The only real time I get to play is at night after the kiddos hit the hay and I abandon the wife for my basement. With my axefx, interface and daw I can go downstairs and be recording with tones I like within minutes and I can focus on playing well. If I had to set up mics etc. I lose time. If I had to record live amps, drums etc. I simply wouldn't get to record at all. Having time to myself where I can turn on real amps or play an acoustic kit and have time to set up and record any of it is a near impossibility at his point of life...
 
JackBootedThug said:
yup-I used cheap line 6 pod beans and floorboards in the past with audacity and it just went great for what I was doing. USB from the pod to my computer. Whether I was jamming to a backing track or just recording some tracks for a possible song. For some reason now I just look at this shit and BOOM...get pissed and quit. I need to just chill the fuck out and watch some tutorials and fiddle with it.
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yeah dude, it's so easy to overthink this stuff, then option paralysis steps in and nothing gets done. Kinda the same with video, for me anyway. The other day 311splawn posted a $200 Zoom mic/cam that he uses for vids. IMO that unit records audio and video as good as my Zoom Q8 and is much easier to use. You can't plug in an external mic, but for hobbyist vids it does the trick.
 
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That's all too real GOHO.

I used to build guitars, up until the babies arrived and all the tools started to grow legs as fast as my boys could escort them around.
 
Corey James said:
I can’t really comment on the video. I need to get better at that for sure.

regardless, modelers are fantastic for keeping it easy for recording at home. I use fractal products.

I have a UA ox which makes it so freaking easy with an amplifier 🤟🏽.

I’m on lunch break so maybe I’ll finally go downstairs and turn on the computer to post something.
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It then also has the added benefit of recording live streams off TV and small concerts. I have done both of those with great success.

The Zoom Q2n4K that is. Multipurpose.
 
I'm going to go against the recording of your amp but just get the Neural Amp Modeler and find a model of your amp. The 5150 model is damn near perfect. So is the Splawn model that comes with the download
 
pipboy90 said:
Suhr Reactive Load has the best sound. Plug your amp in and choose IR you want. Sounds as good as a mic’d cab.
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This bro. Find an IR you dig and use this to go into it in your DAW.

I own over $12k worth of gear that I play on a daily and this is the best money I’ve spent on gear.
 
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