Riff Of The Week™ - Season 1: Recording Electric Guitar pt2

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Hi, I'm Dave Weiner. I'm a Favored Nations recording artist, a G.I.T. graduate and have been playing in Steve Vai's band since 1999.

Every Wednesday I do a new Riff Of The Week™ guitar education video. Here's Season 1, Episode 49: "How To Record Electric Guitar pt. 2 - Mic'ing"

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[Matheus222]

I don't understand anything! Can't you explain how to record electric guitar if you ONLY have:

1. electric guitar

2. amp

3. normal cable

4 computer with no programs

First thing to do?

And I bet that cat was wondering who the hell you was speaking to. :)

[riffoftheweek]

Yep, buy a mic, mic cable, interface and DAW. Good luck.

[Matheus222]

Okey but if I wanna use this way:

Guitar -> cable -> amp -> some stuff to my computer -> program edit on the computer

Finnish.

How to do? Because I don't wanna buy a mic for my electric guitar, I'd only buy a mic for vocals.

[riffoftheweek]

You can plug into an interface.  But I'd highly suggest mic'ing your amp.

[Purifiedinfire]

Does everyone have a studio/house cat lol

[ben21e4]

haha that cat is funny

[vaibhavnayel]

that cat is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!

[Bertuosity]

@ EILIVdrummer

DAW = Digital Audio Workspace.

[EILIVdrummer]

@riffoftheweek

What is DAW ?

[zootechnicsfuckurbut]

nice pussy..Great video man helped me out alot muchas gracias

[PauloVento]

Nice info, thanks a lot. Oh and lol at 3:40 xD

[blueredfred2]

Has your amp got a Line Out or Emulated Line Out? if so plug that into an interface, that will get your amp's tone instead of using crappy programs to emulate guitar tone's :)

[jujucaster64]

I tried pods, amplitube plugins, guitar rig etc...

I'm getting back into micing a good old cause that's the only way to get real alive guitar sound.

Thanks for these vids on recording guitar!

[Matheus222]

an interface? What's that? I'm from Sweden so they might be called something else...

And mic are expensive.