• Oct 24, 2012  How to: Connect your Guitar to your Mac and how to Record! How to connect an electric guitar to a mac and record with Garage band.Please comment, rate, subscribe. GarageBand For.
• While many would argue that the only way to accurately capture an electric guitar performance is by mic’ing up your amplifier and hitting record, in my latest video I share 3 ways that you can directly input your guitar into your Mac so that you can record it in GarageBand.

Aug 11, 2011  I was recording myself playing something i wrote with imovie and had the boss feeding into my mac for the sound. IMovie captured the sound a whole hell of a lot better than garageband. I'm thinking garageband is taking what it thinks is a clean guitar sound and adding its 'clean combo' effects to it which makes it sound off.

If you’re a guitarist who’s just getting started with GarageBand and are dying to jump in a start recording, you may be overwhelmed with the different gear options available to you.

While many would argue that the only way to accurately capture an electric guitar performance is by mic’ing up your amplifier and hitting record, in my latest video I share 3 ways that you can directly input your guitar into your Mac so that you can record it in GarageBand.

Directly inputting (or ‘DI-ing’) your instrument in this way gives you more control over how your recording sounds if you choose to use Garageband’s built in amp designer and/or Audio Unit plug ins.

Check it out below:

You can find the gear mentioned in the video here:

How To Record Guitar On Garageband App

TOOGOO(R) 3M Guitar to PC USB Recording Cable

IK Multimedia iRig Pro I/O

How To Record Using Garageband

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2

How do you prefer to record your guitars in GarageBand? What gear do you use? Leave a comment and let me know or come join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.