How to Record Electric Guitar

How to record electric guitar with proper mic placement on a guitar amp, phase and polarity awareness, ideal amp and pedal choices, an optimized signal chain, and mixing techniques that produce professional sounding guitar tones in a studio or at home. 🎸🎙️ You’ll learn: • How to prepare and set up your guitar for recording (truss rod, strings, action, intonation) • How different guitar pickups affect recorded tone • How pickups, speakers, and microphones work as transducers • How different microphone types sound on a guitar amp (dynamic, ribbon, condenser) • The different mic placement choices on a guitar amp speaker • How to avoid phase and polarity issues when using multiple microphones • Ideal amp and microphone combinations for electric guitar • How to use pedals and accessories without adding noise • The complete recording chain from guitar to interface • How to mix recorded electric guitar so it sits perfectly in a track Along the way, Pete Durning demonstrates real-world examples so you can hear how each technique changes the recorded sound. ⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:08 - Guitar Maintenance (Truss Rod, Strings, Action, Intonation, Electronics) 03:24 - Guitar Pickup Types (Single Coil, Humbuckers, P90s, Filter’Trons) 05:14 - Transducers (Pickups, Speakers, and Microphones Explained) 07:00 - Microphone Types for Guitar Amp (Dynamic, Ribbon, Condenser) 08:40 - Mic Placement and Combinations on Guitar Amp 10:45 - Polarity and Phase When Miking a Guitar Amp 12:30 - Guitar Amp Types and Tone Combinations 14:15 - The Oven™ – Amp Isolation System 15:29 - Pedals, Accessories, and Noise Control 18:49 - Recording Electric Guitar (Signal Chain and Preamps) 20:28 - Mixing Electric Guitar (EQ, compression, routing, widening) 🎛️ Gear used in this video: • Microphones: Shure SM57, Pinnacle Fattop, AKG C414, Royer R-121 • Guitars: Fender, PRS, G&L, Gretsch • Amps: Orange, Jet City, Vox, Bugera, Ashdown, Fender, Laney, Hotone • Outboard Gear: KHE Amp Switcher, Universal Audio, Summit Audio, API, Neve, Radial DI Boxes • Pedals: Boss, Electro-Harmonix, MXR, Fulltone, DigiTech • Recording Interface: Antelope Orion Gen 4, Focusrite Scarlett • DAW Software: Logic Pro X • Plug-ins: Waves, FabFilter 🎥 Filmed at Cocoon Recording Studio by Corey Zack. 🎸 Featured guitarist: Pete Durning (check out his band - Forget The Whale) 🎬 Additional filming: Tabitha Booth 🎨 All graphics, animations, illustrations, music, and editing by Corey Zack.