How to Record a Song - Part 2: Recording Guitar and Bass

Have great ideas on your guitar or bass that you want to record? Line 6′s Propellerhead Product Specialist Matt Piper shows you how to get started recording guitar and bass with your computer at home using Propellerhead Record + Reason Duo software. This video also includes a section on microphone placement for recording a guitar amplifier.

This video is the second part in a series. The first video on how to get set up is here: http://youtu.be/gvzS2jS7bRc

Next time, Matt will show you how to program drum and percussion parts!

Please note that subsequent to the production of this video, Record Reason Duo has been replaced by Reason 6. Reason 6 has everything you see in the video plus powerful new features including three new effects devices and thousands of new presets, sounds, and loops.

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[mariustheguitarist]

Can you give me the tabs for the bass part? : ) It sounds awesome!

[line6movies]

@mariustheguitarist Thanks man! Glad you like it. Sorry I don't have tabs, but the notes are:

F# on 4th string, C# B on 3rd string, G# F# on 2nd string, C# B on 1st string, E F# on 2nd string.

I slide from two frets lower up to the C#s and the G#.

[line6movies]

The final installment in this series just went up yesterday. How to Record a Song - Part 6: Mixing and Mastering

[84nomas]

.. hi i really find your videos very informative, coz i am really new to home stereo recording. Can i use garageband in recording guitar parts instead if micing an amp?and later on export that file to popellerhead?does virtual line6 amp also include virtual stompboxes just like those that are in garageband?sori, im really a newbie...

[line6movies]

@84nomas Thanks for your comment. I'm happy to hear that the videos are helpful! :)

Yes, you can record in GarageBand instead of miking the amp. You could then export that file and import it into Reason. The virtual Line 6 Amp in Reason does not include stomp boxes, but Reason has several effects built in.

[b182fan97]

Do you have to record your e-guitar with a microphone or can you also just conncect your E-Guitar to the Amp and connect the line out put of the amp with the mixer and then with the computer line input ??

Ps: sorry for my bad english im german ;)

[line6movies]

@b182fan97 You can use the line out of the amp, but how that will sound depends on what type of amp you have. A Line 6 amp will feature amplifier & speaker cabinet modeling on its line output, so it will sound great direct. Some other amps without these features may not sound so good direct. In those cases, I recommend using a microphone. If you have an audio interface with an instrument input, you can also connect your guitar directly to that and use the virtual Line 6 amp in the software.

[peecee2000]

Thanks for this , Matt. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.

Thanks also for all your Reason + Record blogs over the past year or so at Line6.com.

Essential stuff for all us Propellerhead devotees.

[line6movies]

@DennyKun1995 I could have recorded it directly into the computer using the virtual Line 6 amp device in the software, and that would have sounded great. But I wanted to show how to mic an amplifier, since I think several users may have an amp they love the sound of. I think that both ways are valid and useful methods of recording guitar.

[b182fan97]

@line6movies okay thx ;)

[line6movies]

@Hypothermia333 Thanks for your question. I am not using FireWire in this setup. If you are referring to my audio interface, the keyboard in the video (Line 6 KB37) is also the audio interface. KB37 is a combination audio interface and MIDI keyboard controller. It connects to the computer via USB.

[Hypothermia333]

What kind of firewire are you using?