About this course:

Great guitar tones are responsible for the sound signature, memorability and success of some of the world’s biggest hit records.

Most guitarist want to create their own distinctive tone but cannot afford expensive amp, cabinets or microphones - let alone, a professional studio or treated room to record guitars. And even with a good guitar amp it's nearly impossible to record in a home studio without disturbing neighbours.

Fortunately modern technology now allows anyone with a computer, an interface and a few plugins to design incredible guitar sounds. No loud amps or expensive microphones needed: it's all a matter of knowing how to do it.

On this step-by-step course you will learn all the tricks and techniques used by the professional in order to design amazing guitar tones in-the-box. 

In the 31 videos we explain it all from beginning to end: choosing the right guitar for you, how to set it up, and how to configure your DAW and audio interface, how to choose the right virtual amp, how to tweak it, how to position your virtual microphones, all the way up to guitar mixing techniques and much more.

In the course we demonstrate some of the industry-leading amp simulation plugins including Amplitube and Guitar Rig and we explain in detail you how to craft your unique guitar sound using advanced functions.

You will also learn some of the best-kept secrets of famous producers to get incredible depth, width, and grit out of your guitar sound, to help it cut through the mix across many genres, from funky twangy rhythm parts to bulldozer-heavy power chords.

In this course you’ll learn :

- How to get your sound into the system
- Choosing Your Guitar
- Setting Up Your Guitar
- Selecting Guitar Pickups
- Guitar Cables
- DI Boxes And Preamps
- Recording With The Hi-Z Input
- Recording Through An External Preamp
- Setting Up The DAW
- Setting Up The Recording Levels
- Monitoring The Amp Sounds
- Recording Dry vs Recording With Effects
- Processing The DI Sound
- Clean Guitar Tones Using Amplitube
- Setting Up Your Virtual Mics And Room
- Clean Amp Models
- Clean Guitar Sounds Using Guitar Rig
- Adding Effects To A Clean Guitar Tone
- Creating Funky Guitar Tones
- Creating Crunch Tones With Guitar Rig
- Crunch guitar Tones With Amplitube
- Using Hardware FX Pedals
- Creating Heavy Metal Guitar Tones
- Technique: Splitting Into Two Amps
- Technique: Layer Recording
- Technique combining Crunch With Heavy Guitar Tones For Definition
- Technique: Double Tracking
- Getting A Tight Sound Through Time Correction
- Essential Mixing Techniques