In the computer setting, that stuff has to happen before the audio interface and the modeling can't do anything or even know anything about that. They can also do things on the analog side of things to better enable using analog effects before you hit the A/D stage. They can set the sample rate to the most useful value and they know exactly how much processing they can do and control the I/O latency. They know what the analog input buffers are like. The software that does the modeling knows things that the computer versions can't know. You can also change the position of most stompboxes by dragging them to the left or right.So is it possible that the software modeling approach practically trumps the hardware platform? And I'm assuming the dedicated Kemper / AxeFX hardware platforms beats the iOS platforms for the job.īy "trumps the hardware platform" do you mean analog amps or hardware modelers?īetween things like the Kemper and Axe-FX devices and the in computer type software, the Kempers and such have some advantages. You can add stompboxes by dragging them from the collection on the right side of the Stompbox window and you can remove them by dragging them up and out of the pedalboard (the tray where the stompboxes sit). When you click on the Stompbox button you’ll see the stompbox effects associated with the chosen preset. GarageBand 10 with the in-app purchase content includes 37 stompboxes (though two are Wah pedals, one is for splitting the signal, and another is for mixing). In short, where the effects appear in the chain affects the overall sound. Chorus is added to the overdrive effect which, in turn, was added to the guitar-with-reverb sound. The first is a reverb effect, the second is for overdrive, and the third is a chorus effect. Stompboxes are laid out is a serial chain, meaning that as the sound of the guitar is channeled through a line of stompboxes, each stompbox inherits the sound of the cumulation of stompboxes before it. Its name is derived from smallish metal boxes laid at the feet of guitar and bass players that are generally activated by stepping on a switch or pedal. A stompbox is an effect chained to your guitar. Stompboxes: If you’re not a guitar player and just reading this for pleasure you may be unfamiliar with this term. All the knobs and switches on the amp are configurable as well. And when you hover your cursor over the cabinet you’ll find that you can change the placement of the microphone-move it closer or farther away from the cabinet as well as change its lateral position. So, for example, you might throw a Modern British Head (Marshall amp) on top of a Stadium 4×12 cabinet, and mic it with a Dynamic 57 (Shure 57 model). You can customize a preset by choosing from Model, Amp, Cabinet, and Mic pop-up menus. Finish up by fine tuning with your ears.Ĭonfigure your amp, cabinet, and mic in GarageBand’s Amp window. Adjust the guitar’s tuners until each string reading is in the green. Pluck a string and the meter will tell you how close you are to the correct pitch. Now that you’re getting sound into GarageBand, select Brit and Clean again and then click on the Tuner button (the one that looks like a tuning fork) in the control bar. If you see nothing in the meter and your guitar’s volume knob is turned up, choose GarageBand > Preferences > Audio/MIDI and make sure that the Output Device and Input Device pop-up menus are configured correctly. Feel free to select another track and enable its Input Monitoring button to hear its sound. The sound of your guitar, as channeled through that track and its amp and effects, will play through the output device you’ve selected. To hear what you’re playing click on the orange Input Monitoring button in the track header. If you play your guitar you should see the meter within the track react. These range from “clean” sounds such as Brit and Clean and Amazing Tweed to tracks with a load of effects and overdriven amps such as Modern Stack and Maelstrom.īrit and Clean is selected by default. When the GarageBand window appears the track header will display 15 guitar tracks.
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