IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi, I'm Garrick Chow, and welcome to another
title in our series on iPad Music Production.
| | 00:08 | In this course we are looking
at AmpliTube from IK Multimedia.
| | 00:12 | An app that lets you play your guitar through
your iPad and dial in and record a virtually
| | 00:16 | unlimited selection of
classic and modern guitar sounds.
| | 00:19 | We'll start by looking at how to set up and
connect your guitar or bass to your iPad.
| | 00:25 | And then how to use a built-in tools
like the tuner and the metronome.
| | 00:30 | From there I'll show you how to experiment with sounds
by changing amp, cabinet, and microphone settings.
| | 00:39 | Once we have our sounds dialed in, we'll look at
how to record with AmpliTube's 8-track recorder.
| | 00:46 | Finally, you'll see how to mix down and
export your song to share with others.
| | 00:56 | If you are a guitar player, you're going to
love the incredibly diverse selection of sounds
| | 00:59 | and tools that are packed into
this single studio-quality app.
| | 01:03 | So let's get started with
iPad Music Production: AmpliTube.
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1. Setting UpPhysically setting up your iPad| 00:01 | One of the great things about recording
and performing music through the iPad is that
| | 00:04 | you can really do it just about anywhere.
| | 00:06 | You can place your iPad on a
bench next to you in a park.
| | 00:08 | You can put it on your lap in your hotel room,
| | 00:10 | plug in your guitar, and
you're pretty much ready to go.
| | 00:13 | But if you're not on the go, and you have
the ability to just set up a small workspace
| | 00:16 | it makes sense to take sometime and make sure that all
of your tools are set up in a clean and efficient manner.
| | 00:21 | Because even though you could just take
your iPad and place them on a flat surface like
| | 00:24 | the table top, you'll find over time that
it's much easier to work with your iPad when
| | 00:27 | its mounted on some kind of stand.
| | 00:29 | You're going to be
working with the screen a lot.
| | 00:31 | So it makes sense to make sure that
it's comfortable for you to work with.
| | 00:33 | For example, right here I have a stand
from IK Multimedia called the iKlip Studio.
| | 00:38 | This allows me to angle the iPad up a
little bit more so it's pointing more directly at
| | 00:42 | my face, and I can use it a little bit
more easier while I'm tapping the screen.
| | 00:46 | You'll also find accessories that allow
you to mount the iPad to a microphone stand.
| | 00:49 | So if you like to stand up while you're
playing guitar, you might it useful to be able to
| | 00:52 | raise your iPad up and down on the mic stand.
| | 00:55 | Even the cover that you can purchase for
your iPad from Apple allows you to mount the
| | 00:58 | iPad in a more vertical orientation, which you
might find useful if you're sitting at a desktop.
| | 01:03 | Now in addition to making it comfortable
to work with your iPad a lot of these stands
| | 01:07 | make you iPad more stable, which is
important because you're going to be plugging a lot
| | 01:10 | of accessories into your iPad
during the course of recording.
| | 01:14 | For example, in this course in many movies
we'll be using this device called the iRig.
| | 01:18 | The way this works is this plugs into the
headphone jack of your iPad and then you plug
| | 01:23 | your guitar cable into the other end.
| | 01:28 | Now consider for a moment how
heavy a guitar cable can be.
| | 01:31 | If this were just dangling off the edge of
my table, this would be putting a considerable
| | 01:34 | amount of weight on to this tiny headphone
jack on my iPad which actually might cause
| | 01:38 | it to snap at that point, which is
something you definitely don't want to have happen.
| | 01:41 | So it's important to
secure your accessories as well.
| | 01:44 | For example, in this case, I might just keep
most of the guitar cable looped lightly here
| | 01:47 | on the desktop while I plug
the other end into my guitar.
| | 01:50 | I also want to make sure there's plenty of
slack here, because I don't want to accidentally
| | 01:53 | yank my iPad off the table which will
cause an immediate end to my recording session.
| | 01:59 | So just keep in mind that you want to get a
stand that keeps your iPad in a comfortable
| | 02:02 | position and also keeps it secure.
| | 02:04 | And that you also do want to make
sure you secure your accessories as well.
| | 02:07 | If you just keep these tips in mind,
you'll find it much easier to use AmpliTube.
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| Setting up inputs| 00:01 | In order to play and record your guitar
through AmpliTube, you need some kind of adapter that
| | 00:04 | allows you to connect a standard
quarter-inch guitar cable to your iPad.
| | 00:08 | AmpliTube accepts input from both the
dock connector and the headphone jack.
| | 00:12 | So you can use an accessory like the iRig,
which is built to use with AmpliTube, and
| | 00:16 | you can plug that into your headphone jack, or you can
use the Apogee Jam, which connects to your dock connector.
| | 00:22 | There really are advantages and
disadvantages to both of these types of devices.
| | 00:25 | For devices like the Jam that plug in to
the dock connector, you have the advantage of
| | 00:29 | converting your guitar signal
to a digital signal right away.
| | 00:32 | It also has its own gain control on the side.
| | 00:35 | So your signal will tend to be cleaner and
louder going through the dock connector, but because
| | 00:38 | it's going through that connector, you won't be able
to keep your iPad charged while you're playing.
| | 00:41 | So you're going to want to make sure you have
your battery fully charged, or at least charge
| | 00:44 | it enough so you can get through your session.
| | 00:47 | If you use a device like the iRig which plugs
in the headphone jack, you can keep your iPad
| | 00:51 | charged while you're recording,
but this is more of an analog device.
| | 00:54 | So your signal tends to be a little
bit noisier or end a little bit quieter.
| | 00:58 | For more of the discussion on both of these
devices and some solutions to the charging
| | 01:01 | and noise problem, see the other course
in the series called, Inputs, Mics, and MIDI.
| | 01:05 | For this example, though, I'm
going to be using the Apogee Jam.
| | 01:10 | I'll connect one end in the iPad.
Plug my guitar cable into the jam.
| | 01:19 | Let's grab the guitar.
| | 01:31 | If I go into the setup area now, you
can see we have, Input: 30-Pin Audio.
| | 01:36 | That's telling me that I have the
input going into the dock connector here.
| | 01:39 | If I'd used the iRig, I
would've seen Input: Headphone Jack.
| | 01:42 | Now because I am using a device that
connects to the dock and one that has its own gain
| | 01:46 | controls, I want to make sure to adjust my
levels here before I adjust the levels in AmpliTube.
| | 01:51 | I'm going to first make sure the
volume is totally up on my guitar.
| | 01:53 | I've got the pick up selector where I want it.
| | 01:56 | You'll notice if I strum a little bit, you
can see the Jam lights up, and I just want
| | 02:02 | to make sure that I adjust the
gain so it doesn't get into the red.
| | 02:04 | Let me turn that all the way up,
and you can see what that looks like.
| | 02:08 | That tells me it's going
to be way too distorted.
| | 02:10 | I'm going to be clipping my signal there.
So I definitely want to pull that back.
| | 02:19 | Playback a little bit.
| | 02:21 | You want to make sure when you're testing
your signal that you're going to be playing
| | 02:23 | in the same intensity in style as
you will be when you're recording.
| | 02:29 | That's pretty good there.
| | 02:31 | Now I can turn my attention to
the level setting in AmpliTube.
| | 02:34 | You can see we have a Level In slider here,
and we basically just moved the slider to
| | 02:37 | the left and to the right.
| | 02:39 | As I play, probably not enough signal, and
again, I don't want drag you too far to the right.
| | 02:47 | Otherwise, again I'll get clipping and
distortion that I definitely don't want.
| | 02:51 | Let's pull it back again.
Just a little bit more.
| | 03:04 | That's probably pretty good.
| | 03:05 | Now once your levels are set in you probably
want to be able to hear what you're playing.
| | 03:08 | Notice we have a Level Out meter.
| | 03:10 | That adjusts how much level
is coming out of your iPad.
| | 03:14 | Now when you're using a device that's
plugged into the dock connector, you'll be able to
| | 03:17 | hear your guitar through the iPad's built-in
speaker, but in my experience that's probably
| | 03:20 | not going to be loud enough, even
with the volume turned all the way up.
| | 03:24 | Most likely you're going to want to connect
speakers or headphones to your iPad so you
| | 03:26 | can hear what you're playing.
| | 03:29 | Now if you're using a device like the iRig, this
also has its own headphone jack built-in here as well.
| | 03:33 | So you'll plug into that, because your
headphone jack will be taken up by the iRig.
| | 03:37 | One word of caution here.
| | 03:39 | You don't want to be using
earbuds that have a built-in microphone.
| | 03:41 | Like the earbuds that come
with the iPhone, for example.
| | 03:44 | In most cases, AmpliTube will default to
that microphone even if you have another device
| | 03:47 | plugged into the dock, and you definitely
don't want to be recording through the microphone
| | 03:50 | on your ear buds when you're
plugged into the jam, for example.
| | 03:54 | But again, you just use the slider here to
adjust your output until it's as loud as you want.
| | 04:03 | That's basically how you set the input when
you're going through one of these accessories.
| | 04:06 | Now while we are in here, I should also mention
that there is a built-in Mic option here as well.
| | 04:10 | You can plug the jam for a moment, and if
I tap on, you can see the sound of my voice
| | 04:17 | is now being picked up through
the iPad's built-in microphone.
| | 04:21 | While it's not ideal because the
microphone isn't that great for recording, if you're
| | 04:24 | in a pinch, and you have
a great idea for a song,
| | 04:26 | maybe you only have an acoustic guitar
with you, you can use the built-in microphone,
| | 04:30 | play your song, and make sure you
capture it before you forget it.
| | 04:33 | Or maybe you're just a rhythm guitarist.
| | 04:34 | You can play your rhythm guitar through the
Apogee jam and maybe sing your lead through
| | 04:38 | the built-in microphone and give
that to your lead guitarist to play.
| | 04:40 | Let me go ahead and turn that off again.
| | 04:43 | But that's basically how you get sounds
into and out of your iPad using AmpliTube.
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| Understanding other setup options| 00:01 | Now let's take some time and continue
looking at some of the options we'll find under the
| | 00:03 | Setup section of AmpliTube.
| | 00:06 | Now we previously looked at the Level
sliders and the built-in mic options.
| | 00:09 | So let's just continue
moving down the list here.
| | 00:11 | The first item is Latency.
| | 00:14 | Latency is when there's a delay between playing
your instrument and hearing it through the app.
| | 00:18 | Technically, all digital audio workstation
apps have latency, but most of the time we're
| | 00:21 | talking about fractions of a
second that you won't really notice.
| | 00:25 | Occasionally, though, depending on how much processing
you're putting your signal through, you may hear latency.
| | 00:29 | This is when you strum your guitar, but don't
hear the signal coming through your headphones
| | 00:32 | until maybe a moment later.
| | 00:34 | This can be annoying and
make it difficult to play.
| | 00:37 | By default, AmpliTube's latency setting is
set to Low, and you shouldn't notice any
| | 00:41 | latency most of the time.
| | 00:43 | But if on occasion you think you're noticing a
delay, try switching to the Ultralow setting.
| | 00:47 | Just be aware though that this may introduce
pops, clicks, and other unwanted noises into
| | 00:51 | your recording especially
if you have an older iPad.
| | 00:54 | So if you hear any noises like
that switch the setting back to Low.
| | 00:57 | Next is the No Feedback setting.
| | 01:01 | AmpliTube does an amazing job of re-creating
the sounds of classic guitar amplifiers, sometimes
| | 01:04 | so much so that it even faithfully reproduces
the sound of feedback you might hear if you're
| | 01:08 | using a high gain setting and standing by
your amp without damping your guitar strings.
| | 01:13 | By setting No Feedback to either On or Auto,
you'll prevent that kind of feedback from
| | 01:18 | occurring, which can save your eardrums, especially
if you're using headphones to monitor your playing.
| | 01:23 | The No Feedback option disables high-pitched
constant noise from occurring, but it also
| | 01:27 | makes your output level a little quieter.
| | 01:29 | So you might want to leave it completely off
unless you're running into feedback problems.
| | 01:34 | Just remember to keep your headphone
volume low until you're sure you're not going to
| | 01:36 | blast your ears with feedback.
Next we have Retain Settings.
| | 01:41 | Turn this option on so AmpliTube doesn't
revert its amps and effects back to their default
| | 01:45 | settings when you quit and reopen it.
| | 01:47 | I have found that even with this option off,
your custom settings will remain for a while.
| | 01:51 | But if you spend a lot of time tweaking knobs
and dials to get the sound you want, you probably
| | 01:55 | don't want to lose your work.
| | 01:56 | So just make sure to come in
here and turn on Retain Settings.
| | 02:00 | Now one important thing to know what
AmpliTube is that when it's open it stays open.
| | 02:03 | So your iPad won't go to sleep in the middle
of a recording session if AmpliTube is running.
| | 02:07 | You have to quit AmpliTube be it either by
pressing the Home button or putting your iPad
| | 02:10 | to sleep manually with the Sleep-Wake button.
| | 02:12 | But you probably also don't wanted to stay
on when you're not using it especially if
| | 02:16 | you're using a dock input accessory and
can't keep the iPad charged while recording.
| | 02:20 | If you're the kind of person who forgets to
put your iPad to sleep just turn on Auto Sleep.
| | 02:25 | And with that setting on, the iPad will
follow the auto sleep preferences you have set in
| | 02:28 | your iPad system settings.
| | 02:30 | So if, for example, you have iPad set to
sleep after two minutes of inactivity, if you have
| | 02:34 | Auto Sleep On in AmpliTube, it will also
continue to sleep then after two minutes.
| | 02:40 | The Background Audio setting is used if you
want AmpliTube to continue playing music when
| | 02:43 | AmpliTube isn't on-screen.
| | 02:45 | For example, maybe you're reviewing a recording,
but you remember you need to check email you received.
| | 02:50 | With Background Audio set to On, you can
start playback and then switch to your email app
| | 02:54 | to read your email and still
be able to hear your recording.
| | 02:57 | With this setting off, playback will
stop as soon as you leave AmpliTube.
| | 03:02 | Next we have MIDI settings.
| | 03:04 | AmpliTube accepts MIDI input, which we're not
going to get in too much in this course, but
| | 03:07 | you might want to use this if you have
something like a MIDI footswitch, which you can use to
| | 03:10 | turn effects on and off or
step through different presets.
| | 03:13 | The last two sections here are FTP and SoundCloud upload
which are used for exporting and sharing your recordings.
| | 03:20 | If you have an FTP server, or website where
you can upload files via FTP, you can enter
| | 03:23 | your server settings here.
| | 03:27 | If you have a SoundCloud account, you can
enter your username and password to upload
| | 03:31 | directly to your account to
share your music with others.
| | 03:35 | I'll be talking about how to export your
songs at the end of this course, but for now those
| | 03:39 | are the items you'll find under
the Setup section in AmpliTube.
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| Registering your copy of AmpliTube| 00:01 | Before you start working too deeply with
AmpliTube, I highly suggest registering your copy.
| | 00:06 | Registering your copy of AmpliTube gets you
access to additional effects as well as access
| | 00:09 | to the full users manual.
| | 00:10 | Notice if I tap the Question Mark button in
the up left-hand corner, I get options
| | 00:14 | to open the Quick Start
guide and the User's Manual.
| | 00:17 | But if I tap the User's Manual, I see a
message telling me I have to register.
| | 00:21 | Then I can tap OK to create a new account or
if I've registered with IK Multimedia before
| | 00:26 | I can use an existing account.
| | 00:27 | I'm just going to tap Exit for now so I can
show you that you can also tap the Account
| | 00:32 | button in the lower right-hand
corner to go the same place.
| | 00:36 | So if you never registered with IK Multimedia before
just tap New Account and then just complete the information.
| | 00:42 | Again, once registered, you'll unlock
additional effects and the complete user manual.
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2. ToolsUsing the tuner| 00:01 | One of the most vital aspects of recording
and performing with an instrument is first
| | 00:04 | making sure that instrument is in tune.
| | 00:06 | You could be a fantastic guitarist, but if one
string is out of tune, it's going to sound pretty bad.
| | 00:11 | Now if you're a serious guitarist,
you probably already have a tuner.
| | 00:14 | But it can be a little bit inconvenient to
have to chain your guitar through a tuner
| | 00:17 | and then into your iPad.
| | 00:18 | One of the points of using an iPad is to reduce
the clutter of cables and additional accessories.
| | 00:23 | Fortunately, AmpliTube has a built-in tuner.
| | 00:25 | You can get to it by tapping tools
and here at the top you'll see Tuner.
| | 00:29 | To turn it on we just tap On.
This is a full chromatic tuner.
| | 00:33 | So it will detect the
notes you're trying to tune.
| | 00:35 | So, for example, if I start playing.
You can see I'm a little bit flat there.
| | 00:40 | So I'm going to adjust that, and you can see when both
of those triangles show up, I'm pretty much in tune.
| | 00:47 | You can move on to the
next string and then continue.
| | 00:50 | So basically you just go through one
note at a time and adjust your tuning.
| | 00:55 | Now you notice there's also a Mute button here.
| | 01:01 | This might be convenient if you're using
your iPad for a live performance setting, maybe
| | 01:05 | you have your iPad hooked into a PA, and you
want to be able to tune your guitar without
| | 01:08 | that sound going through the PA system.
| | 01:10 | If you tap Mute, you can still tune your guitar,
but none of that sound will be going through
| | 01:16 | the output of the iPad, and when
you're done just turn the Tuner Off.
| | 01:25 | There's also a mini tuner
that you might have noticed.
| | 01:27 | It's right down here at
the bottom of the screen.
| | 01:28 | It's kind of hard to miss, but if I tap that,
notice it can also tune from there, and this
| | 01:35 | might be convenient to use if you just
notice one of your notes is slightly out of tune,
| | 01:38 | and you don't want to bring up the full Tuner.
| | 01:40 | You can just tap the mini tuner at the
bottom of the screen, get your note in tune, turn
| | 01:50 | it off, and start playing again.
So that's how to use the Tuner in AmpliTube.
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| Setting up the metronome| 00:01 | Let's continue now looking through the tools section
of AmpliTube, and the next item here is the Metronome.
| | 00:06 | This can be really useful when you want to
practice your guitar on your own, but it's
| | 00:09 | pretty much essential when you want to record your
guitar, especially if you're doing multitrack recording.
| | 00:13 | The Metronome just helps to
keep all of your tracks in sync.
| | 00:16 | So you can simply turn it on by tapping
On, and you start hearing it right away.
| | 00:22 | Now you can adjust the beat a
couple of different ways here.
| | 00:24 | I can drag down for a slower tempo or drag
it back to the right for a quicker tempo.
| | 00:32 | Let's turn it off for a moment there.
| | 00:35 | Now if you know the exact tempo that you want,
you can tap where it says BPM and then dial
| | 00:40 | in the tempo that you want.
| | 00:42 | This lets you be really precise with
your beat by adjusting it by tenths.
| | 00:48 | Again, you can hear the beat that way.
| | 00:53 | That might be useful if you know the exact
tempo that you want or if you're trying to
| | 00:57 | match a song's tempo to play along with it.
| | 00:59 | Now the other button here is Tap.
| | 01:01 | This is useful when you don't
know the exact tempo that you want.
| | 01:03 | All you do here is just tap, and you can
see the AmpliTube is trying to detect the beat
| | 01:11 | that I'm tapping to.
| | 01:12 | This is the case where it might be useful
to have somebody strumming a guitar along
| | 01:16 | with you so you can tap along to the rhythm that
they're playing to find the tempo that you want.
| | 01:20 | But in any case you just tap
until you find the beat that you want.
| | 01:24 | The Metronome is also
available in AmpliTube's recorder.
| | 01:28 | You can see here we have a BPM button
and again I can tap it to set the tempo.
| | 01:35 | We turn on the Metronome here
by tapping the Metronome button.
| | 01:38 | Now you notice it also says Hold Visual here.
| | 01:42 | What that means is if I hold down on the button
instead of hearing the Metronome, it now flashes
| | 01:48 | the button in time with the beat.
| | 01:49 | This might be useful if you find the
Metronome distracting, but you can still keep to the
| | 01:52 | beat by watching the button flash.
| | 01:54 | Personally, I have some trouble keeping to
the beat just by watching a flashing button
| | 01:57 | but some people are pretty good at it and
they keep the Metronome off so they don't
| | 02:00 | have to listen to it, but they can just keep
an eye on the button as it's flashing here.
| | 02:03 | I'm just going to turn that off for now.
| | 02:06 | Tap Record to go back to my Amp, and
that's how you use the Metronome in AmpliTube.
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| Exploring amp and FX settings| 00:01 | AmpliTube has an incredibly
diverse range of amps and effect sounds.
| | 00:04 | You could literally spend hours just playing around
and tweaking your sounds to get just what you want.
| | 00:09 | Now truth be told, you're going to spend a lot
of that time strumming your guitar, adjusting
| | 00:12 | some settings, strumming your guitar
some more, and adjusting some more settings.
| | 00:16 | When you're working on own this can be pretty
time consuming going back and forth like this
| | 00:20 | and this holds through even if
you're playing with real amps.
| | 00:23 | But here in AmpliTube there's a time
saver called Audio Demos.
| | 00:25 | If I tap the tools button, you'll see
at the bottom here we have Audio Demo.
| | 00:29 | This is a collection of eight different
guitar tracks that have been pre-recorded that you
| | 00:32 | can have playing in the
background as you adjust amp sounds.
| | 00:35 | You can cycle through them by
tapping the demo button over here.
| | 00:38 | You can see we can go all the way to 8.
| | 00:41 | You can hit Auto if you want them to play
all in a row together, but all you do here
| | 00:45 | is to select one, tap play,
and start adjusting your sounds.
| | 00:49 | (music playing)
| | 01:02 | If you want to select a different
song at anytime just tap over to it.
| | 01:06 | (music playing)
| | 01:21 | So you can see this can
be a really big timesaver.
| | 01:23 | Instead of having to strap on your guitar,
play your own chords and play around with
| | 01:26 | the settings, you can just have one of the
guitars playing here in the background as
| | 01:29 | you adjust the setting for the amp.
| | 01:31 | This can even be a big timesaver when
you don't have your guitar with you.
| | 01:33 | Maybe you have a long
commute on a train or a bus.
| | 01:36 | You can just pop your headphones into your
iPod, bring up AmpliTube, start playing with
| | 01:39 | the settings using these audio demos, and
then when you get home you will have your
| | 01:42 | settings already so you can just plug
your guitar in, and you're ready to go.
| | 01:47 |
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3. Amp Modeling and PlayingChoosing an amp and a cabinet| 00:01 | The heart of AmpliTube is really
about its selection of amp modelers.
| | 00:04 | There are five main types of amps that are based
on some of music history's most iconic amp sounds.
| | 00:09 | Combined with the stompbox effects, you can
come up with a virtually unlimited selection
| | 00:13 | of classic and modern guitar sounds.
| | 00:15 | Now for our purposes here, there are three
main factors that determine how your guitar
| | 00:18 | is going to ultimately sound, and I'd like
to use a real world amp, as an example here.
| | 00:23 | First, we have the Head Unit,
which is at the top of the setup.
| | 00:26 | Now, even though the whole setup is often
referred to as the amp, it's really the head
| | 00:30 | unit that is the amplifier.
It's the device that you plug your guitar into.
| | 00:33 | It's the device that's powered that you plug
into a wall outlet, and it's the device with
| | 00:37 | all the settings that you adjust.
| | 00:39 | In order to hear the amplifier, you
have to connect it to a set of speakers.
| | 00:42 | In this case, the speakers are
contained in what we call a cabinet.
| | 00:45 | Now, cabinets come in many
different configurations.
| | 00:48 | They can contain anywhere from one to four,
to possibly eight speakers all in one unit.
| | 00:53 | We also use a sort of shorthand
when we're talking about the cabinets.
| | 00:56 | For instance, this pretty little cabinet has four
12-inch speakers in it, so we often call this a 4x12.
| | 01:01 | I have a bass amp that has a 15-inch
speaker and yet we call that a simple 15, or even
| | 01:06 | a cabinet that has two 10-inch speakers,
we might call that a 2x10.
| | 01:09 | So, it's the combination of the amp and the
cabinet that give you that distinctive sound.
| | 01:13 | Now, there is a third factor to consider,
and that's the type of microphone that might
| | 01:17 | be used for your recording.
| | 01:18 | Now, in many live setups, you'll see
something like the Shure SM57 being used.
| | 01:23 | This is a dynamic mic that's very durable
and a very good for recording loud sounds,
| | 01:27 | like percussion or guitar amps.
| | 01:29 | Now, in a studio situation, you might be using
a Large-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone instead,
| | 01:33 | something like this the Neumann U87.
| | 01:36 | It gives you a much broader frequency
response, but it's also a more delicate microphone,
| | 01:39 | and it does require phantom power, so it's
not ideal for a live situation, but it does
| | 01:43 | give you a much warmer sound overall.
| | 01:45 | So, microphones do play an important role in
how your guitar tone is ultimately going to sound.
| | 01:50 | Now, the reason I'm showing you all this is
that AmpliTube allows you to play with all
| | 01:53 | of these factors, the Amp, the Cabinet,
and the Microphones in a virtual setting.
| | 01:58 | Now of course, there really are two more factors, and
that's the person playing the guitar and the guitar itself.
| | 02:02 | So, to help me demo these amps, I am
going to have my friend David, join me here.
| | 02:07 | We're going to run through the
amps that are available in AmpliTube.
| | 02:10 | Notice when I tap amp in the lower left-hand
corner, where currently says, Clean, I can
| | 02:14 | choose five different settings.
We have Clean, Crunch, Lead, Metal, and Bass.
| | 02:19 | Let's run through each of these.
| | 02:21 | Now, the Clean amp, as its name
implies, gives you a clean guitar tone.
| | 02:24 | This is based on the Fender
Blackface Deluxe Reverb that sounds like this.
| | 02:29 | (music playing)
| | 02:38 | Next, we have the Crunch amp.
This is a based on the Vox AC30.
| | 02:42 | It was a very popular amp in the 60s, and
it pretty much drove the British invasion.
| | 02:46 | It was used by The Beatles, The Rolling
Stones, and The Kinks, and it's still very popular
| | 02:50 | today, it sounds like this.
(music playing)
| | 03:03 | Next, we have the Lead amp setting.
This is based on another very popular amp.
| | 03:07 | It's the Marshall JCM800.
| | 03:09 | A very popular heavy guitar amp in the 80s, and
again, still very popular today, it sounds like this.
| | 03:15 | (music playing)
| | 03:24 | That's the Lead amp.
Next, we have the Metal amp.
| | 03:26 | This is based on the Mesa
Boogie Triple Rectifier.
| | 03:29 | It's very good for high
gain heavy guitar sounds.
| | 03:33 | (music playing)
Next, we have the Bass amp.
| | 03:40 | This is based off the Ampeg SVT line of bass
amps, which is arguably the most popular line
| | 03:45 | of bass amps out there.
| | 03:46 | So, if you're a bass player, you can plug
your bass directly into your iPad and have
| | 03:49 | a classic bass sound.
| | 03:51 | Now, you might have noticed that all of these
different amps have their own settings and dials.
| | 03:55 | For instance, here with the bass, we have
Gain, Bass, MID, Frequency, Treble, and Volume.
| | 04:00 | Each amp is going to have
its own collection of settings.
| | 04:02 | For instance, if I go back to Crunch, you
can see in this case, we have Volume, Bass,
| | 04:07 | Treble, Tone, and Reverb.
| | 04:08 | Now, again though these look like knobs on
classic amps, we don't use them by turning
| | 04:12 | our fingers in a clockwise
or counterclockwise motion.
| | 04:14 | Instead, you place your finger on
the knob and just move up or down.
| | 04:19 | If David plays a little bit,
we'll hear the tone change.
| | 04:24 | (music playing)
| | 04:33 | You can also notice as I turn the knobs,
you'll see actual settings appear down here.
| | 04:38 | This can be very useful if you want
to jot down settings that you like.
| | 04:41 | So, even though we're just turning these
knobs to certain positions, you can see the exact
| | 04:44 | setting down here at the bottom of the screen.
| | 04:47 | So, these are the different amp settings, but
again, there are other factors that contribute
| | 04:50 | to how your guitar is going to sound.
| | 04:52 | Again, we can just choose from different amps,
but we can also choose from different Cabinets.
| | 04:56 | You can see we have CAB down here.
| | 04:58 | Currently, we have 2x12 selected, but you can
see we can choose from a 1x12, two different
| | 05:03 | types of 4x12s and the 1x15.
| | 05:06 | Again, this is a situation where you can play
around with your guitar and try changing the
| | 05:09 | different Cabinet settings.
| | 05:10 | We can either tap the Cabinet settings here, or
we can adjust them by tapping the Cabinet icon.
| | 05:16 | You'll notice these
changes, as I continue to tap.
| | 05:23 | If have David play some guitar for me, you'll
hear the change as we change different cabinets.
| | 05:27 | (music playing)
| | 05:45 | Again, the Cabinet plays an important role.
Lastly, we have a Microphone.
| | 05:49 | Again, we can tap to change
just like with the Cabinets.
| | 05:52 | We can choose from the SM57 Type Dynamic
Microphone or change the Condenser Type U87.
| | 05:57 | Again, as David plays,
we'll hear the sound change.
| | 06:01 | (music playing)
| | 06:10 | You might even want to play around with the
Cabinet settings again, after you change the
| | 06:13 | microphone type or even go
back and change your amp settings.
| | 06:15 | Now, if you're a new guitarist or just new
to playing around with amplifiers, don't let
| | 06:19 | all of these factors throw you, really
these sound pretty good right out of the box.
| | 06:23 | You probably will only have to do just a
little bit of tweaking to get a sound that you like.
| | 06:27 | But if you like to experiment, by all means
take a lot of time and really just get the
| | 06:30 | sound that you want, because ultimately, your ears
are going to be the best judge of the guitar sound.
| | 06:35 | So just take some time, play around, and
you're sure to find some sounds that you like.
| | 06:40 |
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| Working with stomp boxes| 00:01 | Whether you're playing through a real amp
or through AmpliTube, you're not limited to
| | 00:04 | just what the amp can do in
terms of your guitar sound.
| | 00:07 | You're probably aware that there's a world
of Pedals or Stompboxes out there that are
| | 00:10 | designed to affect your
guitar sound in very specific ways.
| | 00:13 | I have a couple of examples here.
This is a Tuner Pedal.
| | 00:16 | It doesn't actually affect the
sound of your guitar in anyway.
| | 00:18 | It just lets you tune your
guitar through this pedal.
| | 00:21 | We have a Digital Delay.
This one is called the Medal Zone.
| | 00:24 | That's a distortion pedal.
We've got a Wah Pedal over here.
| | 00:27 | You will also find combination units like this one,
which gives you four different effects built into one.
| | 00:32 | Now, AmpliTube comes with nearly a dozen different
effects that you can apply to your guitar sounds.
| | 00:36 | Now to help me out with this again, I'm
going to have David come back up, and we'll just
| | 00:39 | run through a couple of these different pedals.
| | 00:41 | So here in AmpliTube, we're
looking at the default four pedals.
| | 00:45 | We have a Chorus, a Delay,
a Flanger, and an Overdrive.
| | 00:49 | To use any of these, you simply tap them with
your finger--I don't recommend using your foot.
| | 00:52 | You can see a light comes on and each one
of these pedals has its own set of dials,
| | 00:57 | and we change the dials just like we
change the dials on the amplifiers.
| | 00:59 | You can place your finger
on dial and move up and down.
| | 01:04 | So just to give you a sense of what the sounds like,
I have David play a little for the Chorus pedal.
| | 01:08 | (music playing)
| | 01:17 | You can tap that to turn that off.
Next, we have the Delay Pedal here.
| | 01:20 | Again, we can turn that on, and as he
plays, I'll play with some of these settings.
| | 01:23 | (music playing)
| | 01:34 | Now, certain pedals have this BPM Sync button,
and that allows you to sync the effect to
| | 01:38 | the metronome setting
you've set up here under tools.
| | 01:40 | Currently, I'm set to 121.6-beats per minute,
and if I turn on BPM Sync, you can see that
| | 01:47 | changes my Delay, and that would
Sync up with the Metronome and my Tempo.
| | 01:51 | We've also got the Flanger and the Overdrive.
| | 01:53 | Now, if you want to replace any of these default
pedals, with another one of the built-in pedals,
| | 01:57 | tap the name of the one you want to replace.
| | 01:59 | You can see the list here, and we'll
select say the Phazer, and it sounds like this.
| | 02:07 | (music playing)
| | 02:11 | This particular pedal only has the one dial
on it, so I could adjust that dial, and it
| | 02:16 | also has the BPM Sync switch.
| | 02:18 | Now, if you don't want a pedal in a particular
slot at all, simply tap its name and choose Empty.
| | 02:24 | Now, much like when you're working with the
Amp sounds and the Cabinet sounds, the sound
| | 02:28 | that you get from the pedal
ultimately is going to be to your own taste.
| | 02:31 | Again, feel free to just play
around with the different sounds.
| | 02:34 | Now, it also helps to know what each of these
pedals do, and I can't go through every single
| | 02:37 | one here, but if you have registered your copy of
AmpliTube, you have access to the full user's manual.
| | 02:42 | So, if you tap the question mark in the upper
left-hand corner and then select User's Manual
| | 02:47 | and then go to the FX listing.
| | 02:51 | Here you'll find the description of all the
different pedals that are available for AmpliTube.
| | 02:54 | So, with the combination of the Stompboxes,
your Amp Settings, and your Cabinet and Microphone
| | 02:58 | selections, there is literally a world of
sound possibilities right at your fingertips.
| | 03:03 |
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| Saving favorites and presets| 00:01 | With so many combinations of amps and
stompboxes to play around with in AmpliTube, you're sure
| | 00:05 | to come up with several sounds
you like and will want to return to.
| | 00:08 | AmpliTube lets you save and quickly access
your favorite settings as Favorites and Presets.
| | 00:13 | Both Favorites and Presets store the entire
chain of effects and settings you've created
| | 00:16 | with the amp and stompboxes.
The main difference is how they're organized.
| | 00:21 | To get to your Favorites and Presets, tap
the Presets button at the bottom of the screen.
| | 00:25 | Presets are organized into categories.
| | 00:27 | By default, you have Preset Packs, which are
collections of settings that come pre-programmed
| | 00:31 | in the AmpliTube, and User Presets, where
you can store your own custom settings.
| | 00:35 | I'll show you how to do that in a moment.
| | 00:37 | Favorites are accessed by these
buttons at the bottom of this area.
| | 00:40 | You can see four buttons at a time, but you just
need to swipe across to get the more favorites.
| | 00:45 | You can have up to a whopping 128 favorites.
| | 00:48 | The first 21 favorites are occupied by preprogrammed
settings, but only the first nine are available by default.
| | 00:54 | Tap any one to select that Favorite.
| | 00:57 | Notice it lights up in yellow to let you
know you've selected it, and I've also seen the
| | 01:00 | amp and stompboxes change in the background.
| | 01:03 | If I try to select one of the presets
beyond number nine, I'll get this message telling
| | 01:06 | me that, this amp has not yet been purchased.
I'll just tap down to ignore that for now.
| | 01:11 | So, any Favorite button that has a
yellow number has settings stored in it.
| | 01:15 | If I swipe to the left, I'll find buttons with white
numbers, which indicate these are empty favorite slots.
| | 01:22 | So, let's say I've come up with an amp
and stompbox combination I really like.
| | 01:25 | For example, I'll just
tweak a couple of dials here.
| | 01:29 | It will add another stompbox.
| | 01:31 | Now, to save this as a favorite, I'll
just hold down my finger on an empty slot.
| | 01:40 | After a couple of seconds it flashes yellow to let
me know my settings have been saved, and that's it.
| | 01:44 | Now, I can tap another favorite to bring up
entirely different settings, but I can easily
| | 01:51 | jump back to my other settings by
going back and tapping that favorite.
| | 01:57 | By the way, you can also overwrite any
existing Favorites by picking your settings and then
| | 02:00 | just holding down on any yellow favorite.
| | 02:03 | Just be aware that there's no way to get back to those
previous settings, other than manually setting them again.
| | 02:07 | So, be sure that you don't want a
Favorite before you overwrite it.
| | 02:10 | Now, while you can save up to 128 Favorites,
it's not really easy to quickly access the
| | 02:15 | Favorites that are more
than a couple of swipes away.
| | 02:18 | If you somehow managed to save 128 Favorites,
it will take you over 30 swipes to get from
| | 02:22 | the first four Favorites, to the last four.
| | 02:24 | Also, there's no way to rename a Favorite,
so you'll have to remember the number of the
| | 02:28 | favorites that you've saved.
| | 02:29 | Personally, I think it's best to save just four
or five of your most used settings as Favorites.
| | 02:34 | So, the other option you have here
is to save your settings as Presets.
| | 02:37 | The advantage of presets is that you can
categorize your settings and name your saved configurations.
| | 02:42 | Under Preset Packs, you'll find the
preprogrammed settings that come with AmpliTube.
| | 02:46 | In this case, I just have AmpliTube Full,
but if you've purchased any of them, you'll
| | 02:50 | also find AmpliTube Fender,
Local Live or AmpliTube Slash here.
| | 02:55 | Here under AmpliTube Full, I find the
Factory Category and in here I find 21 Presets.
| | 03:01 | These are actually the same 21 default settings
you can find under the first nine Favorites buttons.
| | 03:09 | You can see they are named identically there.
| | 03:11 | Here under Presets, it's much easier to see
all of their names just by scrolling through.
| | 03:14 | And you'll get a better
sense of what they sound like.
| | 03:18 | Tapping the Preset brings up those settings.
| | 03:21 | So like before if I come up with some
settings I want to save--let's make a few changes
| | 03:24 | to this one, so increase the Reverb, add some
Presence, and we'll add a Chorus to this one.
| | 03:33 | So, I can then save these settings as a Preset.
| | 03:37 | To save these settings, I need to
back out to the User Presets Category.
| | 03:45 | Here, I'll tap the plus button.
It prompts me to create a name for the category.
| | 03:49 | I'm going to place the setting into.
| | 03:50 | You can name the category anything you
like just as long as it makes sense to you.
| | 03:54 | Maybe, for example, I want to categorize my
sounds around my different guitars, so perhaps
| | 03:58 | I've created the setting using my Les Paul.
So, I'll call this Category Les Paul.
| | 04:05 | Now, I need to name the Preset itself.
| | 04:08 | Again, you can name your
Presets anything you like.
| | 04:11 | Maybe I'll just call this one
Lead Chorus, and there's my Preset.
| | 04:21 | Just repeat the process for any other
Presets or Categories you want to save.
| | 04:24 | Now, if I were to come up with another sound
that I wanted to store under the Les Paul Category,
| | 04:29 | for example, swap out the Chorus
here for Overdrive Pedal, perhaps.
| | 04:34 | I just want to make sure I'm
still under the Les Paul Category.
| | 04:40 | Tap the plus button, and now I can name the
second Preset, and I'll just call it Overdrive.
| | 04:49 | Now, it appears under the Les Paul Category.
| | 04:53 | If I wanted to save a Present under a new Category,
I'll tap Category and here I tap the plus button.
| | 04:59 | Maybe I want a Category of Presets
to use when I play my Telecaster.
| | 05:03 | That creates the new Category,
and now I can name my Preset.
| | 05:07 | I'll just Cancel that for now.
| | 05:10 | You can see that I have
created that Telecaster Category.
| | 05:13 | I kind of prefer the Preset method over Favorites,
since you can stay so organized with Presets,
| | 05:17 | but you can also just save a Preset as a
favorite if you use it a lot just call up your Preset
| | 05:22 | and then hold down on the Favorites
button to save those settings to that button.
| | 05:26 | Personally though, if you plan on saving a
lot of different sounds, I think the best
| | 05:30 | plan is to save them as Presets and then
use the first dozen or so of the Favorites, to
| | 05:34 | store your most commonly used sounds.
| | 05:35 | It's a lot easier than swiping through all
those Favorite buttons and trying to remember
| | 05:39 | which number is which.
| | 05:40 | Now, chances are, they'll all continue
to tweak your Presets after saving them.
| | 05:44 | I am going to go back and choose the
settings that I made for the Les Paul.
| | 05:47 | Let's go back to that Lead Chorus, and maybe
I'll just make a change here, while I bring
| | 05:52 | the Level of the Chorus down a
little bit and increase its Rate.
| | 05:57 | Then I'll go back to my
Presets button here and tap Save.
| | 06:01 | I'm given the option to either Save As,
which will let me save the current settings as a
| | 06:05 | new Preset or Overwrite, which will save
over the older settings of the current preset.
| | 06:09 | So, if I'm happy with this version of
the setting, I'll just tap Overwrite.
| | 06:12 | Lastly, if you want to completely get rid
of a preset just tap Edit and then tap the
| | 06:18 | Delete button, next to any
preset you want to get rid of.
| | 06:22 | Tap Delete to confirm, and it's gone.
You can also do the same with Categories.
| | 06:27 | Maybe I just sold my Telecaster, so
I don't need those settings anymore.
| | 06:30 | So, here in Categories, I'll tap
Edit, and I'll Delete those settings.
| | 06:35 | That wipes out all the
Presets stored in that Category.
| | 06:39 | Now if there were one Preset in that
Category I maybe wanted to hold onto, I could have
| | 06:42 | saved it as a Favorite first
and then deleted the Category.
| | 06:46 | That's how to work with
Presets and Favorites in AmpliTube.
| | 06:51 |
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| Importing songs to play along with| 00:01 | If you're a guitarist who likes to learn
songs by playing along with them, you'll love that
| | 00:04 | you can import songs directly into
AmpliTube and play along with them.
| | 00:07 | This is a great way to play along with your
favorite songs for practice, and you can even
| | 00:11 | adjust the playback speed to make it easier to
hear and learn the more complicated parts of the song.
| | 00:16 | There are three ways to
import music into AmpliTube.
| | 00:19 | You start by tapping Song and then tap Add Song.
| | 00:23 | This gives you the three choices,
Wi-Fi, File Sharing, and iPod Library.
| | 00:27 | Let's take a look at
each one starting with Wi-Fi.
| | 00:30 | In order to transfer songs from your
computer to AmpliTube over Wi-Fi, both your computer,
| | 00:34 | and your iPad have to be
on the same Wi-Fi network.
| | 00:37 | AmpliTube automatically sets up its own browser-based
server that you can use to transfer your songs.
| | 00:42 | So, I'll tap Wi-Fi, now bear in mind that
you have to keep his window open in AmpliTube
| | 00:47 | until the transfer is done.
| | 00:49 | Notice it tells me to visit this web
address in the browser, 10.3.28.119:8080.
| | 00:55 | The address you see here is going to vary
and probably not match to the address you
| | 00:59 | see here in this movie.
| | 01:00 | So make sure you look on your
iPad for the IP address you need.
| | 01:04 | But in this case I'm going to go to
my web browser and type in the address.
| | 01:12 | Because my computer and iPad are on
the same network, I now see the screen.
| | 01:16 | Now I just click Choose File and browse
for the song I want to copy to AmpliTube.
| | 01:20 | The audio file has to be a WAV, AIF,
M4A, or MP3 file, saved at 441-16-bit.
| | 01:26 | I have the song here saved on my Desktop so
I'll select it and then I'll click Start Transfer.
| | 01:34 | Depending on the size of the file, it may
take a few seconds or a couple of minutes,
| | 01:37 | but you can watch the
progress here on your iPad.
| | 01:40 | Okay, and there it is.
| | 01:42 | I'll tap Done, and now I
see the song listed here.
| | 01:46 | Now when I tap the Play button, AmpliTube
has to take a moment to expand the song.
| | 01:50 | This only needs to happen
the first time you play it.
| | 01:55 | (music playing)
| | 02:02 | Okay so that's one way
transfer songs to AmpliTube.
| | 02:05 | Let's tap Add Song again and the
next option here is File Sharing.
| | 02:10 | This lets you transfer songs via iTunes.
| | 02:12 | This requires that your iPad is
connected to your computer through the USB cable.
| | 02:20 | Now tapping File Sharing here just gives you
instructions on how to do what I'm about to
| | 02:23 | show you, so I'll just tap Done.
| | 02:25 | So I'm going to open iTunes on my
computer, select my iPad and then select Apps.
| | 02:32 | Here I'm going to scroll down and under
File Sharing, I'll find AmpliTube, and this is
| | 02:37 | where you'll find the list of any of
the songs you've already transferred over.
| | 02:41 | Click Add to browse for
the song you want to copy.
| | 02:46 | Select this next one here on my Desktop,
and I'll select Open, and that's it.
| | 02:51 | A second song now appears here in AmpliTube.
| | 02:53 | Again, I'll select it and tap Play, and
it will take a moment to expand the song.
| | 03:00 | (music playing)
| | 03:06 | Let's tap Add Song one more time.
| | 03:07 | The third option for
transferring songs is iPod Library.
| | 03:11 | You can use this option if the song you want to play
along with is already in the music app of your iPad.
| | 03:16 | Here I can just browse my iPad for the song I
want and click the plus button next to its name.
| | 03:21 | I can add as many as I like and then tap Done.
| | 03:26 | AmpliTube takes a couple seconds to import the
songs, and now they're in my AmpliTube Library.
| | 03:32 | So there you have three ways to import
songs into AmpliTube, and once they're in there,
| | 03:36 | you can just tap Play and play along.
| | 03:38 | Now there are a couple of really nice features here
designed to make it easier for you to learn the song.
| | 03:42 | For example, maybe there's a certain
passage you're having a hard time figuring out.
| | 03:47 | If you were just using a regular CD player
or an MP3 player, you'd have to keep manually
| | 03:50 | rewinding or jumping back to the beginning
of this section to listen over and over again.
| | 03:54 | AmpliTube on the other hand
has this great looping feature.
| | 03:58 | Start by selecting your song and then all you have
to do is assign the beginning and end of the loop.
| | 04:03 | Start by playing the song and tap A, when
it comes to the part you want to learn and
| | 04:06 | then tap B at the end.
(music playing)
| | 04:22 | Then just tap Loop and the song will
continue to play just that section between A and B
| | 04:25 | over and over, so you can listen closely and focus on
learning rather than having to constantly jump back.
| | 04:34 | (music playing)
| | 04:42 | If you do need to jump back and forth, you
can always use the Playhead here to drag to
| | 04:45 | different parts of the song.
| | 04:47 | We'll have to turn off Loop first though.
(music playing)
| | 04:54 | Underneath that is the Volume level which
you can use to adjust the volume of course.
| | 04:58 | Now underneath that is the Speed Trainer.
| | 05:00 | This lets you speed up or more importantly
slow down the song while keeping it pitch the same.
| | 05:05 | This makes it easier to hear the fast parts
without having to worry about the songs suddenly
| | 05:08 | dropping to another key.
(music playing)
| | 05:30 | And right next to that is the No Voice button.
| | 05:32 | This is sort of the Karaoke button that
filters out voice frequencies and leaves you with
| | 05:36 | just the instrumental.
| | 05:38 | This is really useful if you're having
trouble hearing a guitar part under a Lead Vocal.
| | 05:44 | (music playing)
| | 05:59 | The No Voice button does a pretty
good job of filtering out the singing.
| | 06:02 | Now all these tools combined would be a
great app on its own, but here's just one of the
| | 06:06 | many great features in AmpliTube.
| | 06:07 | Now you might have
noticed the To Record button.
| | 06:12 | Tapping that lets you send the song to a
track in the recorder so you can record yourself
| | 06:15 | playing along with the song.
| | 06:17 | We'll be looking at the
recorder in the next chapter.
| | 06:20 | Now if you ever want to get rid of a
song, just select it and tap Delete.
| | 06:27 | So that's working with
prerecorded songs in AmpliTube.
| | 06:32 |
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| Purchasing additional amps and stomp boxes| 00:01 | Even if you've purchased the full version
of AmpliTube, IK Multimedia is constantly
| | 00:05 | releasing new Amps and Pedals that you
might want to add to your collection.
| | 00:08 | If you tap Add Gear,
you'll be taken to the shop.
| | 00:11 | Now this isn't where you'll
just be tempted to spend money.
| | 00:13 | This is also where you'll come if you've recently
reinstalled AmpliTube or have installed it on another device.
| | 00:18 | If you've previously purchased additional
items, you want to tap Restore Purchases to
| | 00:22 | re-download the items you've bought, but
scroll through the rest of this area, and you'll
| | 00:27 | find plenty of things to buy.
| | 00:28 | You'll find additional
stompboxes and additional amps.
| | 00:35 | You can read about each one, unfortunately
you can't preview any of them, but you can
| | 00:38 | read about them, and if you do want to purchase
one just tap it, and you'll be asked to Confirm
| | 00:43 | that you do in fact want
to make an In-App Purchase.
| | 00:45 | I'll just Cancel that for now.
| | 00:46 | Now if you think you may be interested in more
than one or two items here, I suggest scrolling
| | 00:53 | down to the very bottom where you can
purchase entire bundles that include all the Effects
| | 00:57 | and Amps in one package.
This can save you a little bit of money.
| | 01:01 | But in any case, this is on a sales pitch,
but I wanted you to least know where the shop
| | 01:04 | is located, in case you do want to a purchase additional
Amps or Pedals for your copy of AmpliTube.
| | 01:13 |
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4. RecordingPurchasing Recorder and creating a new project| 00:01 | Even if AmpliTube didn't have a built-in
recorder, it would still be an incredible app with its
| | 00:05 | immense collection of amps and stompboxes.
| | 00:07 | It's great for practicing your guitar, and you can
even hook it to a PA and use it for live performances.
| | 00:12 | But AmpliTube does in fact have a built-in
recorder which is great for the times when
| | 00:15 | you want to save your musical
ideas or even create an entire song.
| | 00:19 | Now the full version of AmpliTube only comes
with a single track recorder, which can access
| | 00:23 | by tapping the Record button.
| | 00:25 | Now because it's only a single track
recorder, you can only record one guitar track.
| | 00:29 | That might be all you need, but if you want
the ability to record, say a Rhythm Guitar
| | 00:33 | and a Lead Guitar part and maybe some Vocals,
you'll need to purchase the Full 8-Track recorder.
| | 00:38 | You can do so by tapping Add Gear and then
scrolling down to the bottom of the list and
| | 00:44 | here you'll find the Recorder.
| | 00:45 | It also comes with the Master FX Module which
you can use for adding final touches to your Mixes.
| | 00:52 | Another way to purchase the recorder is to tap any
of these empty spaces here in the 8-Track recorder.
| | 00:56 | You get this message saying You are about
the purchase the full 8-Track recorder plus
| | 00:59 | the Master FX module,
and do you want to proceed?
| | 01:02 | And if you do, tap Buy, I'll tap Buy again to
confirm my purchase and tap in my Apple ID Password.
| | 01:12 | And, as you can see, here I now
have the full 8-Track recorder.
| | 01:17 | Now if you want to follow along with the
rest of this chapter, make sure you download the
| | 01:19 | recorder for your copy of AmpliTube too.
| | 01:22 | Now when you're ready to record,
you need to record into a new project.
| | 01:25 | Since I haven't recorded anything yet, I already
have a project open, it's currently called Untitled 1.
| | 01:30 | If I wanted to retitle that, I could just
tap in there and come up with a name, but
| | 01:34 | there's no pressure to come up with a name
right away, if you don't have a name yet,
| | 01:36 | you can just cancel that, leave it as
Untitled, and you can always rename it later.
| | 01:40 | So you can always see you're project name right here
on the tape and at this point we're ready to record.
| | 01:46 | You can manage all the projects you create in
AmpliTube by tapping the Project List button.
| | 01:49 | I only have the one project that I've
created so far, but you can create as many projects
| | 01:53 | as you like and open them
all from here if you need too.
| | 01:56 | Tap the new project button to create a New
Project and then we'll tap the Load button
| | 01:59 | next to any project you ever want to open.
| | 02:02 | So at this point I'm ready to record, and in the
next movie will look at how to do just that.
| | 02:06 |
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| Recording guitar in Recorder| 00:01 | Once you've purchased AmpliTube's 8-Track
recorder, you are ready to start recording.
| | 00:05 | Now I should make it clear up front that although
this allows you to record up to eight independent
| | 00:08 | tracks, this isn't a recorder that allows
you to record multiple tracks simultaneously.
| | 00:13 | You can only record one track at a time and then
layer additional tracks on top of it in subsequent passes.
| | 00:18 | So you can't, for example, record two people
playing guitar at once on two separate tracks.
| | 00:22 | You have to record one guitar track
and then the other and then so on.
| | 00:27 | And again, if you don't think you need multiple
tracks, you don't need to buy the 8-Track recorder.
| | 00:30 | A single track recorder that comes with
AmpliTube will be fine if that's all you need.
| | 00:35 | Recording on AmpliTube is
pretty easy and straightforward.
| | 00:37 | To record to a track, the
track needs to be armed.
| | 00:41 | By default, the first track is already armed,
but you can tap the arms select button on
| | 00:44 | any other track if you
prefer to record to one of those.
| | 00:47 | But since we're just getting started,
it makes sense to begin with track one.
| | 00:50 | From here it's really just a matter of
tapping the record button and playing the guitar.
| | 00:54 | Now as I mentioned earlier if you're going
to be recording multiple tracks, you probably
| | 00:57 | want to use the Metronome
to keep yourself in time.
| | 00:59 | I've already set the Metronome to the Tempo I
want for this particular song, and I'm going
| | 01:05 | to have David come up here and
play some guitar for us again.
| | 01:11 | Now we've already selected the
guitar tone we want for the first track.
| | 01:14 | I have the Crunch Amp selected, and I set the
Dials, so I am going to go back to recorder.
| | 01:20 | So now I'll tap record, I'll set the Metronome
playing, and David can start playing when he's ready.
| | 01:32 | (music playing)
| | 01:53 | And we'll stop the metronome too.
| | 01:55 | So I tapped Play there to stop recording. I
can also tap the Record button to stop the
| | 01:58 | recording but the track would have kept playing.
In this case, I just wanted everything to stop.
| | 02:03 | Now to listen back to what we just
recorded, I can tap the Rewind button.
| | 02:06 | The Rewind button always takes you back to
the last point you hit record which can be
| | 02:10 | useful if you started recording somewhere
in the middle of the song and want to avoid
| | 02:13 | having to manually hunt for the
beginning of the part you just recorded.
| | 02:17 | And just so you know, you can jump to any
point in the song by dragging your finger
| | 02:20 | across the progress bar here. You
can see the tape reel spinning there.
| | 02:24 | But in this case I do want to go back to
the beginning, so I'll just tap Rewind again.
| | 02:29 | And now we'll tap Play to listen.
| | 02:38 | (music playing)
| | 02:59 | We could tap Play to stop again.
| | 03:00 | So there's our first track, and as you can
see, it's very easy to record in AmpliTube.
| | 03:04 | Now let's add a second track.
| | 03:06 | To do so I'm going to tap track two's arm
button, and you can see it starts flashing.
| | 03:10 | I don't want to pick a different guitar tone for
this one, so I'm going to go back the guitar amps here.
| | 03:14 | And it's going to be more of a Lead
tone, so I'm going to the Clean settings.
| | 03:19 | Maybe add some Delay and some Distortion.
Could you play a little bit there?
| | 03:25 | (music playing)
| | 03:27 | I'm not hearing the Delay or the Distortion
in this case, I need to could go back to the
| | 03:30 | recorder, and I need to make
sure the FX button is enabled.
| | 03:33 | And that will apply the effects of the
stompboxes and the amps to the particular track.
| | 03:38 | So now if David plays...
(music playing)
| | 03:41 | Now we hear the effects.
So at this point we're ready to record.
| | 03:44 | I've already rewound to the beginning, so I
can just tap record, and we'll be ready to go.
| | 03:53 | (music playing)
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Okay, so there's our second track. It's not too bad.
Let's give it a listen back. I am going to rewind again.
| | 04:24 | (music playing)
| | 04:40 | That's not too bad, although at the end we
probably could fix a little bit at the end there.
| | 04:47 | Now unfortunately, it's pretty easy to fix
mistakes since AmpliTube supports punching in.
| | 04:52 | Punch-in recording involves playing along
with track you recorded and then tapping or
| | 04:55 | punching the record button at the
beginning of this section you want to replace.
| | 04:59 | Now the downside to this in AmpliTube is you
pretty much have to have a second person there
| | 05:03 | to tap the record button for you while
you're playing your guitar, because recording starts
| | 05:06 | as soon as you tap the record button
and overwrites what was previously there.
| | 05:10 | So I'm going to roll back a
little bit just by dragging here.
| | 05:13 | All right, so now I'm going to tap Play and
David is going to play along with the track.
| | 05:18 | And when we reach to the point we want to
fix, he'll keep playing, and I'll tap the
| | 05:21 | record button, and we'll
just record out through the end.
| | 05:26 | (music playing)
| | 05:42 | Okay, I think that was better.
| | 05:42 | Now it's very important to listen back when
you've done a Punch-in recording to make sure
| | 05:45 | no unwanted noises like pops or
clicks were introduced into the track.
| | 05:49 | Now if necessary, you can adjust the mix
between the two tracks using their individual volume
| | 05:52 | knobs as we've already seen.
| | 05:56 | You can also pan each track to the left or
right, which might make them easier to hear.
| | 06:05 | So I'll just rewind and
listen to a little bit of this.
| | 06:08 | (music playing)
| | 06:23 | And as you just saw, when I tapped Rewind, it
took me back to the last place I hit record so
| | 06:27 | we were able to review that Punch-in point.
| | 06:30 | Now if you want to listen closely to a certain
section of your song, you can utilize the Loop button.
| | 06:35 | This lets you set an In/Out point so you
can focus on a specific area of your song.
| | 06:41 | Basically, the way this works is
you can play through your song.
| | 06:44 | Tap the In button at the point where you
want to looping to begin and tap the Out button
| | 06:47 | when you want the looping to stop.
| | 06:51 | (music playing)
| | 07:01 | So with those loop points set, I can now hit the Loop
button, and we'll just hear that particular section.
| | 07:07 | (music playing)
| | 07:17 | So we can see it looping
back in the playback area there.
| | 07:19 | This is really only for listening back, though.
| | 07:21 | Notice with Looping On, the Record button
is disabled, but looping a section can come
| | 07:26 | in handy when you are trying to make sure
your performance was recorded the way you intended.
| | 07:30 | Now if we had more parts we wanted to add,
we can just arm track 3 and start recording
| | 07:34 | again, and we could go
all the way up to 8 tracks.
| | 07:36 | But in this example, I think
that's all we wanted to capture.
| | 07:39 | And that's how to record
multiple tracks in AmpliTube.
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| Using effects and sends| 00:01 | One of the coolest things about working in
AmpliTube is that the sound of your recorded
| | 00:04 | guitar is not set in stone.
| | 00:06 | Let's listen to the last guitar
track we recorded in the previous movie.
| | 00:09 | I'm going to tap the S button to Solo that
track, meaning all the other tracks that may
| | 00:13 | have recorded will be muted,
and I'll only hear this track.
| | 00:19 | (music playing)
| | 00:38 | So that sounds like it did in the previous
movie, but the interesting thing here is we
| | 00:42 | only really captured the guitar
performance and an unprocessed sound.
| | 00:46 | I'm going to play the track again, and this time
I'm using Amp button to choose in different amps.
| | 00:54 | (music playing)
| | 01:13 | And for that matter, I can even hide the recorder
while it's playing and manually adjust the
| | 01:16 | Amp, Cabinet, and Microphone settings.
| | 01:21 | (music playing)
| | 01:35 | So, unlike recording a real amp with a microphone, you're
not locked into the sound you had selected when you recorded.
| | 01:40 | You can always change your mind.
| | 01:41 | Now this may be a good thing or a bad thing
depending on how decisive or indecisive you tend to be.
| | 01:46 | If you want to hear what the unprocessed signal
sounds like, just tap the FX button to turn it off.
| | 01:51 | That turns off the effects of the
Amp, the Cabinet, and the Stompboxes.
| | 01:57 | (music playing)
| | 02:07 | Now if you do like the sound you land on, and
you want to make sure you don't accidentally
| | 02:10 | change it, you can lock it permanently in.
| | 02:12 | Just hold down the FX button for
that track for about 3 seconds.
| | 02:19 | You'll see this message asking you if
you want to Apply all the effects on this track.
| | 02:23 | So if I tap Apply FX, my current settings will be
locked in, and I won't be able to change them again.
| | 02:28 | I'm pretty happy with the way
they are, so I'll tap Apply FX.
| | 02:34 | And now those effects are
permanently applied to that track.
| | 02:37 | Now in the previous movie, I actually forgot
to apply my effects to the first track before
| | 02:41 | recording the second track.
| | 02:42 | Let me Solo that track now, unsolo the second
track, and now I'll tap FX to apply the Amp
| | 02:48 | and Stompbox processing.
Let's listen to how that sounds.
| | 02:55 | (music playing)
| | 03:04 | So it's still using the settings from track 2.
| | 03:06 | The problem here is that you can only have one set
of Amp and Stompbox combinations applied at once.
| | 03:11 | And when I switch to record the second track, I
forgot to lock in the sound for the first track.
| | 03:15 | Fortunately, I remember
what those settings were.
| | 03:19 | We had that set to the Lead Amp, and I didn't
have Delay or Distortion on, and I'll just
| | 03:26 | give that a listen.
(music playing)
| | 03:37 | All right, so remember, before you record
additional tracks, you have to lock in the sound for
| | 03:41 | the track you're currently working on.
| | 03:43 | Now I'm not going to lock in the effects on track
one yet, since I'm not going to add an additional
| | 03:46 | track, and that will give me some
freedom to play around a little more if I want.
| | 03:50 | Now in additional to the Amp, Cabinet, and
Stompbox effects, you can also apply additional
| | 03:54 | effects to each track.
| | 03:55 | I'm going to tap this Send 1-2 button over
here on the right, and that reveals the Sends
| | 04:00 | section of the mixer.
| | 04:01 | As you can see, each track
has its own pair of Send knobs.
| | 04:04 | The knobs let you determine how much of the
track signal will be processed by the Send
| | 04:08 | 1 and 2 Effects Modules.
Now where are these modules?
| | 04:11 | You'll find them under Master Effects.
| | 04:14 | Here you'll find the controls for the Send 1
and Send 2 effects, and the two are identical.
| | 04:19 | The Input knob controls the amount
of signal received by the effect.
| | 04:23 | Mix determines how much of the effect is
applied, and Output is for setting how loud signal
| | 04:28 | is after processing.
Next is the Effects Selector.
| | 04:32 | You can choose between three types of Reverb,
two types of Chorus, and three types of Delay.
| | 04:37 | Now because you only have two Sends, you
can't apply all three types of effects.
| | 04:40 | So maybe I'll select a Reverb on Send 1,
and I'll apply a Chorus effect on Send 2.
| | 04:47 | Notice you can see the name of the particular
effect appearing down here at the bottom of
| | 04:51 | the screen as I make my changes.
| | 04:54 | Now so you can hear the effect, I'm going
to go back of the Send section, I'm going
| | 04:58 | to turn Send 1 all the way up on Channel 1.
| | 05:03 | Now I'll start the track playing, and you'll
be able hear the effects as I make changes.
| | 05:07 | Now first I have to make sure that Send 1
and 2 are Enabled over here in the Master
| | 05:10 | Effects section, and let's give that a listen.
| | 05:17 | (music playing)
| | 05:36 | So you should have been able to hear the Reverb
effect with Send 1 and the Chorus effects with Send 2.
| | 05:41 | Remember that you only have two Sends to
share with all 8 tracks, but then you can choose
| | 05:44 | to apply a little or a lot of the
effects using the two Send knobs.
| | 05:48 | By the way, I should mention that double tapping
any knob sends it back to its default position.
| | 05:53 | Okay, so that's how to apply
effects to individual tracks.
| | 05:56 | A little later we'll see how to apply
Global Effects Settings to your entire Mix.
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| Bouncing, copying, and pasting| 00:01 | If you reach a point where you fill all
eight available tracks in AmpliTube's recorder,
| | 00:04 | and you would still like to add additional
tracks, you can free up some space doing what's
| | 00:08 | called Bouncing your tracks.
| | 00:09 | Bouncing mixes all the current tracks into a
single track freeing up an additional seven tracks.
| | 00:14 | Of course, the downside to this is that you'll
no longer be able to mix your bounced tracks,
| | 00:19 | since they'll all be
combined into a single track.
| | 00:21 | But if you just needed to get that
ninth track in, here's how you do it.
| | 00:25 | First I'm going to duplicate this project
because bouncing is permanent and while we're
| | 00:29 | at it, let's Rename it too.
I'll just call this Demo.
| | 00:37 | Now go to Projects List, and I can see my project in
here and with it selected, I'm going to tap Clone.
| | 00:44 | So that asks me if I want
to Duplicate Demo. And I do.
| | 00:49 | So that creates a copy of the
project I can play around with here.
| | 00:52 | To use it, I'll tap Load.
So you can see now I'm working with Demo copy.
| | 00:56 | All right, so now my original version is still safe
and sound, and I have this copy to play around with.
| | 01:02 | Now to bounce, first make sure all the
tracks you want are mixed to your satisfaction.
| | 01:06 | That means making sure you have the Amps, Cabinet,
and Stompbox sounds the way you intend to keep them.
| | 01:11 | Also the two effects Sends will be locked in, so
make sure they're set up the way you want as well.
| | 01:15 | There's no way to bounce only a couple of
tracks together either, although they will
| | 01:18 | get merged together when you go to bounce.
| | 01:20 | Now looking down here, I noticed I still
have the Solo button enabled on track 1.
| | 01:25 | Now if I left that on when I went to bounce,
I would only hear track 1 in the bounced file,
| | 01:29 | because track 2 would
have been effectively muted.
| | 01:31 | I want to make sure that it's not Soloed so
that we hear both tracks in the final file.
| | 01:35 | But this is also a good way to eliminate
certain tracks from appearing in your bounced file.
| | 01:39 | All right, so once we're ready, I tap Edit, and
that gives you the choice of Copy, Paste, and Bounce.
| | 01:45 | I'll talk about Copy and Paste in a
moment, but for now I'll select Bounce.
| | 01:50 | I'll confirm that I do want to bounce all the tracks
to track 1, and it takes a few moments to process.
| | 01:58 | And now everything is mixed together on track 1.
| | 02:00 | So notice if I Solo track 1, we'll still hear both
guitars, because they both in bounce to that one track.
| | 02:09 | (music playing)
| | 02:16 | Okay, now both guitar tracks are there,
but they sound a little bit weird.
| | 02:20 | Now what's going on here is notice that the
FX button is still enabled, so even though
| | 02:24 | both guitar tracks already had effects on
them, it is supplying basically double effects
| | 02:28 | in this case, so I'm going to turn
that off, and we can listen again.
| | 02:32 | (music playing)
| | 02:40 | So now I've bounced those two tracks together,
and I have another seven free tracks to play
| | 02:43 | around with, so if you run out of
tracks, that's how you can free up more.
| | 02:47 | Now with some planning, you can set things up
so you still have some final mixing capabilities.
| | 02:50 | For example, maybe you recorded two rhythm
guitar tracks, and you know exactly how you
| | 02:54 | want them to sound together.
| | 02:55 | Well, before you record any other tracks
like a Lead Guitar track, you could bounce the
| | 02:59 | two rhythm tracks together to free up a slot,
that way you'll be able to adjust the volume
| | 03:03 | of the rhythm guitars
independently of any other tracks you put down.
| | 03:07 | So it pays to think ahead a little especially if
you know you're going to need more than eight tracks.
| | 03:11 | Now about the Copy and Paste buttons, they
work pretty much like the copy and paste buttons
| | 03:15 | do in a Word Processor.
| | 03:16 | Well, you copy the audio from one
track and paste it onto another.
| | 03:20 | This might be useful if you want to
experiment with the different effect on a particular
| | 03:23 | track, but you don't want to mess up what
you've already applied to it just in case
| | 03:25 | you decide you and keep it as is.
| | 03:27 | I'm going to go back to my Projects List
and open up the original Demo song again,
| | 03:34 | and this again is where we have
the two individual guitar tracks.
| | 03:37 | Now to copy a track, select
it by tapping its Arm button.
| | 03:39 | I'll leave track 2 armed
and then tap Edit, Copy.
| | 03:46 | To paste it onto another track, arm the
track and then choose Edit, Paste, and I'm going
| | 03:53 | to unsolo track 1 here again, and we'll solo
track 3, and I'll just play it, so you can hear it.
| | 04:00 | Let's go ahead a little bit here...
(music playing)
| | 04:03 | Turn the effects on.
(music playing)
| | 04:10 | So now I have two copies of the same track,
and I can play around with this copy, knowing
| | 04:14 | I still have the other copy
sitting untouched on the other track.
| | 04:17 | Once you decide which one you want to keep,
you can delete the contents of the other track
| | 04:20 | or any other track for that matter by
holding down on its arm button for 3 seconds.
| | 04:26 | You'll see this message appear
asking if you want to Erase the track.
| | 04:31 | I'll tap Yes and the track is now blank again.
| | 04:35 | Lastly, you should also know the pasting
a track isn't limited to just AmpliTube.
| | 04:39 | You can paste the copy track
into other IOS audio apps as well.
| | 04:43 | It's not going to work with every app, but
apps that support pasting should have no problem
| | 04:46 | supporting AmpliTube tracks.
| | 04:48 | For example, GarageBand
accepts tracks copied from AmpliTube.
| | 04:51 | Let's switch over to GarageBand, and I
already have a project opened in here, and here I'll
| | 04:57 | just tap in this empty track and choose Paste.
| | 05:01 | And if I tap Play, I'll just go ahead a
little bit here and here we the track.
| | 05:09 | (music playing)
| | 05:13 | So maybe I recorded a guitar performance in
AmpliTube that I want use in a GarageBand project.
| | 05:17 | As you can see, it's easy to copy and
paste the track right into GarageBand.
| | 05:21 | Now that does raise a question of how you would
play along with a GarageBand project in AmpliTube?
| | 05:26 | To do so, you'd have to export a Mix of the
GarageBand project your computer through iTunes.
| | 05:30 | Then copy that mix into a track in AmpliTube,
as I showed you how to do in the movie from
| | 05:34 | the previous chapter on importing songs.
| | 05:36 | Then you can play along with GarageBand project and
copy the resulting guitar track back into GarageBand.
| | 05:42 | For more information on exporting music and
working with GarageBand, see the course in
| | 05:45 | this series called iPad
Music Production: GarageBand.
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| Mixing your tracks| 00:01 | When you're done recording and ready to
share your music with the world, or if you want to
| | 00:04 | be able to at least listen to your song
outside of AmpliTube, you have to mix it down.
| | 00:08 | Mixing involves adjusting the levels and
effects of each individual tracks, so they all combine
| | 00:13 | or mix into a single audio
file that hopefully sounds good.
| | 00:17 | So I have the project I've been working on
throughout this chapter opened right now,
| | 00:20 | and it contains a couple of guitar tracks.
| | 00:23 | Now one option you might want to consider is to
duplicate your project before you start mixing.
| | 00:27 | It's not necessary, but if you plan on
making some radical changes, you might feel more
| | 00:30 | comfortable knowing you have
a backup copy of your project.
| | 00:32 | I showed you how to do this already, but
again just tap the Project List button, make sure
| | 00:38 | your project is selected, and then tap Clone.
| | 00:41 | When it asks if you want to Duplicate it, tap
Duplicate and then I'll tap Load to load that copy.
| | 00:47 | All right, so let's mix.
| | 00:49 | A good first step is to make sure each
track sounds the way you want it to on its own.
| | 00:53 | You might want to solo each track and
listen to make sure the Amp, Cabinet, and Stompbox
| | 00:57 | settings are where you want them.
| | 00:59 | I'm also going to make sure the FX button is
selected so I can hear the effects being applied to it.
| | 01:07 | (music playing)
| | 01:26 | Yes, I'm pretty happy with that.
| | 01:27 | Now remember, you have to lock in the effects
onto a when you're happy with the way it is.
| | 01:30 | I previously did that on track 2, so now I'll
do that on track by holding down the FX button.
| | 01:37 | Now remember this does apply the effects permanently,
so make sure it sounds the way you want it to sound.
| | 01:42 | But it's actually okay in this case
because I'm working with a copy my project.
| | 01:47 | Next, play the song and listen how
the tracks are combining together.
| | 01:51 | I'm going to unsolo track 1 and basically
you want to use the track's Volume knobs to
| | 01:56 | increase or decrease their Levels in your mix.
| | 01:58 | Remember that double tapping a knob
sends it back to its default position.
| | 02:03 | You might want to also
experiment with the Pan knobs.
| | 02:05 | Let's put those back in the center for now.
| | 02:07 | Moving some of the tracks more to the left
or right of the stereo mix can help separate
| | 02:11 | their sounds and increase the clarity of the
instruments while expanding the stereo image of your project.
| | 02:15 | You might find that you need to slightly
increase the volume of a track if you have to pan it
| | 02:19 | hard to one side or the other.
| | 02:24 | (music playing)
| | 03:02 | Next, make any needed adjustments to the
two Sends, and we have the Sends area here.
| | 03:07 | I'm going to go back to the Master FX setting.
You can see we have Send 1 and 2.
| | 03:12 | Remember, we can change the
effects that we're using.
| | 03:14 | Maybe for Send 1 I'll choose the Plate
Reverb, and for Send 2 let's go with a Hall Reverb,
| | 03:22 | then I can go back to the Send area, and
maybe for track 1 I'll apply the Plate Reverb.
| | 03:29 | Let's solo that up and listen.
| | 03:33 | (music playing)
| | 03:50 | So that fills things out a little bit better.
Let's add the other Reverb effect to track 2.
| | 03:54 | (music playing)
| | 04:14 | Now also in the Master FX section, you
have the EQ and Comp, or Compression Effects.
| | 04:20 | These two modules affect your entire mix
and are applied to the project as a whole.
| | 04:23 | You can turn them on and
off by tapping the buttons.
| | 04:27 | And basically, they allow you to make final adjustments
to the overall tone and dynamic range of your mix.
| | 04:31 | I'm not going to get into the details of how
to set EQs and Compression here, but if you're
| | 04:36 | not familiar with these concepts, be sure
to check out the courses on lynda.com from
| | 04:39 | our Foundations of Audio series called EQ and
Filters and Compression and Dynamic Processing.
| | 04:45 | But basically, you'll be using a combination
of the Amps, Cabinets, Stompboxes, Sends, and
| | 04:50 | Master FX to create your mix.
| | 04:52 | It's not uncommon to spend several hours on single
mix, depending on how well you want to mix your song.
| | 04:58 | But once the mix is done to your
satisfaction, the final step is to export it.
| | 05:01 | We'll take a look at your
Export options in the next movie.
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| Exporting your song| 00:01 | Once you're happy with your project, you can
export it from AmpliTube to share with others
| | 00:04 | or just to have a copy of
the mix for yourself.
| | 00:06 | Start by tapping the Project List button, and again,
this is where you manage all the projects you've created.
| | 00:11 | Make sure the project you want to
export is selected, then tap Export.
| | 00:17 | That gives you five ways to export your song.
I'll walk through each one.
| | 00:21 | File Sharing lets you transfer your song
to your computer as a WAV file via iTunes.
| | 00:25 | When I tap it, it takes a
moment to prepare the song.
| | 00:28 | You can see it says, my mix is ready,
and I should connect my device to iTunes.
| | 00:35 | So I'll plug my iPad into my computer.
| | 00:40 | So here in iTunes, I'll select my iPad, I'll
go over to Apps and down under File Sharing,
| | 00:46 | I'll select AmpliTube.
| | 00:49 | This is where you'll find any files you've
exported with the File Sharing option, all
| | 00:52 | I need to do here is select the file, and you
click Save To, and I'll just save this to my Desktop.
| | 01:00 | I'll hide iTunes for a moment.
You see the file now sits here on my Desktop.
| | 01:05 | All right, let's go back to
the Export button in AmpliTube.
| | 01:09 | The next option is Email.
| | 01:12 | When I select this button, AmpliTube compresses my song
as an M4A file and then attaches it to an Email message.
| | 01:19 | Now because I already exported this file once,
it's asking me if I want to replace the copy
| | 01:22 | that I previously exported.
| | 01:24 | I'll say Replace, so it's processing the audio
again, and now it's encoding it to the M4A file.
| | 01:34 | And now let's open this Email message, you
can see the file here is attached, and I could
| | 01:38 | just fill out the To: field and Email this off.
| | 01:40 | Now, in order for this to work, you do have
to have an email account set up on your iPad.
| | 01:45 | I'll just Cancel that for now.
The next option under Export is Song.
| | 01:52 | This option adds your mix track
to the song library in AmpliTube.
| | 01:56 | We looked at the song section earlier and
saw how to import music into AmpliTube so
| | 02:00 | you can learn or play along with it.
| | 02:02 | So if I go to Song, you can see
the song is now here. Next is FTP.
| | 02:13 | If you have access to an FTP server, you
can upload your song directly to it as long as
| | 02:17 | your iPad is connected to the Internet, and
you've entered the FTP information into AmpliTube.
| | 02:22 | And if you recall, we do this under Setup
and down at the bottom you'll find FTP Upload
| | 02:29 | where you can enter your FTP settings.
| | 02:31 | You'll need to know your server
settings as well as your Username and Password.
| | 02:36 | And while we're here in Setup, this is also
where you can enter your SoundCloud account settings.
| | 02:40 | SoundCloud is an online music sharing site that
is easy to upload and share your music with others.
| | 02:46 | You can send anyone a link to your SoundCloud page
and they listen to your song streaming over the site.
| | 02:51 | So you would tap Settings next to SoundCloud
Upload and enter your Username and Password.
| | 02:57 | Once you enter that information, you can go
back to Project List, Export and choose either
| | 03:03 | FTP or SoundCloud and AmpliTube will upload your
song as long as you're connected to the Internet.
| | 03:09 | So, as you can see, there's a great diversity
of options here for getting your songs out of
| | 03:14 | AmpliTube to share with others.
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ConclusionNext steps| 00:01 | And there you have it.
| | 00:02 | Thanks for coming along on this tour
through AmpliTube with me, and I hope you'll enjoy
| | 00:05 | using it to play and record guitar.
| | 00:07 | Now I've mentioned a few times throughout
this course, but if you'd like more information
| | 00:11 | on how to connect all kinds of devices
like guitars, mics, and keyboards to your iPad,
| | 00:15 | be sure to check out the course in
this series called Inputs, Mics, and MIDI.
| | 00:19 | And be sure to check out lynda.com regularly
or sign up for our mailing list to be alerted
| | 00:23 | when we release the next
course on iPad Music Production.
| | 00:26 | So until next time, I'm Garrick Chow, and I hope you have
a lot of fun jamming out with your guitar in AmpliTube.
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