Recording electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster in my case.
When recording electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster in my case, you have several choices. One choice and the one that I use the most is to record it direct without any effects. With my music recording software (Sonar 7 Producer Edition) I have lots of choices for amp simulators and also lots of choices for effects as well. After I record, I clone the track and just like I did with the acoustic guitar, I pan the two tracks apart and put them where I want them and then add some delay to one of the tracks using the trick I mentioned in the section on recording acoustic guitar. By cloning the tracks and adding the delay you get a nice fat sounding guitar. Another way of recording is by using the preamp out on your guitar amp and running that through your interface. In my case I have the Presonus Firepod (Firewire) interface.
Sometimes I'll use my Genesis 1 made by DigiTech. You just plug your guitar in, select the amp simulator and effects you want. Then you plug the Genesis to a line in jack on the Presonus Firepod interface
And of course if that doesn't suit you, you can put a microphone in front of your speaker cabinet and record it that way. Be sure and check recording levels. You don't want the signal to clip. It would be awful for you to play a perfect riff and then discover the signal had clipped several times. Always better to record at a lower level and then boost the signal in the program. A lot of times, the guitar and amp will have a little buzz. There's ways in the music recording software to get that buzz out too.
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