Play guitar through garageband1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() Next I set up my stomp (effects) boxes - an auto wah-wah pedal with a little bit of chorus on top of it as shown here. My cabinet model settings for Feelin' Alright. a Shure SM57) mic placed off-axis and near the speaker as shown here. And for that amp's speakers I chose a 4x10 vintage open backed cabinet with a dynamic 57 (i.e. In the Amp section I've selected the American Tube Clean 2 preamp model, the British Tube 30TB EQ model, and the 50W 6L6 amp model. Now allow me to deconstruct the preset I made for the Joe Cocker tune, "Feelin' Alright." We'll start with the amplifier model, which looked like this: Just a few of the myriad of presets that come with AmpliTube 2. AmpliTube 2 comes with over a hundred of preconfigured presets as shown below, or you can make your own from scratch as I've done in the example that follows. The combination of these four things defines your guitar sound. Each preset has four components - amplifier, cabinet/speaker, stomp-box, and rack-mounted effects. Here's what the GarageBand file I used on stage looked like:Ī quick tap of the down-arrow key and I'm set for the next song.Īs you can see above, each track had a different preset that was just right for that particular song. And GarageBand has a built-in stroboscopic tuner so I was never (OK, rarely) out of tune. It was a piece of cake compared to adjusting three effects boxes on the floor and all the different settings on an amplifier. One press of the down-arrow key and I was ready for the next song on the set list. So here's what happened on stage: I had a real instrument track set up for each song in GarageBand with the AmpliTube 2 settings just the way I wanted them for that song. The guitar goes in through the input, is processed by AmpliTube2 in GarageBand, then sent to the direct input box through the output. (Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.) Old school analog on-stage guitar setup: Guitar -> Effects Pedals -> Amp -> PA system.įor our gig, however, I did away with the effects pedals, the amplifier, and the microphone in front of the amplifier, using my MacBook Pro and an M-Audio FireWire 410 audio interface to route the guitar into GarageBand and then out to the house sound system via a "direct input box" rather than a microphone. Then, a microphone is dangled in front of the amplifier's speaker so the guitar can be mixed into the house sound system (the "PA"). And the guitar is connected to the first pedal's input jack. A bunch of different effects pedals are strung together on the floor and connected to that amplifier. So here's the deal.for a live gig a guitarist usually plays through an amplifier on the stage. Note: If you don't play guitar and/or love GarageBand, you might want to tune out now. What I'd like to share is how I used my MacBook Pro running IK Multimedia's fabulous AmpliTube 2 GarageBand plug-in in lieu of an on-stage amplifier and outboard effects. Party 4.0), that fabulous gathering brought to you by the nice folks at The Mac Observer,, and Backbeat Media. We celebrated our 10th gig together at Cirque du Mac (a.k.a. As you may know, I am allowed to play guitar with the Macworld All-Star Band once each year. ![]()
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