Guides

Guides

How the guitar side of GarageBand actually works, written so you can follow along with a guitar on your lap.

Start here. A walkthrough of how to read a tone card and dial it into GarageBand, using the Paradise City intro as the worked example.

1

What pickups does your guitar have?

Identification guide

Tell humbuckers, P-90s, single coils, lipsticks, Filter'Trons, and actives apart by sight, and learn which way to nudge a tone card for each.

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2

Manchester Orchestra-inspired guitar tone

Original tone and double-tracking

A warm, wide, slightly gritty indie rock sound from a Small Tweed Combo and two separately recorded takes. Our own tone, not a recreation.

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More coming soon, including a full walkthrough of Amp Designer, a guide to Pedalboard, fixing a guitar tone that sounds bad in GarageBand, and which amp model to reach for by genre.