Best guitar recording software 2010

There is also a social media element that people seem to enjoy. Dolby On is a shockingly good audio recording app. It not only does the basics like recording audio, but you can fiddle with it in a number of ways. The features include an EQ, spatial audio, noise reduction, de-essing, and even fade in and out effects. This was one of our picks for the best of despite being just an audio recorder. The app is also free as of the time of this writing. Easy Voice Recorder is what the name says.

This is mostly for simple voice recordings. It works great for recording lectures, interviews, and other practical uses. The app also supports Wear OS and includes a dark theme. The free version contains ads and the premium version does not. This is a good, simple audio recorder.

FL Studio Mobile is a lot like Caustic 3. It has a bunch of tools for electronic style music like electronica, techno, hip-hop, and similar music styles. That includes a bunch of effects, synths, and the ability to record live audio if needed. You can create, mix, master, etc. There are tools for all of that stuff. It also includes plugin support. The app started a little bit clunky, but has improved over time.

The price tag is also a little bit steep. The in-app purchases are for additional plugins and add-ons. Hi-Q is an above average voice recorder. It supports MP3 and that makes it decent for the occasional guitar song or musical idea as well. The app also features Dropbox support, widgets, and a WiFi transfer function. There is a free and premium version. For many — if not most — musicians, recording will involve some kind of digital audio workstation DAW , whereby the producer can record, arrange, mix and master their tracks to perfection.

And for guitarists, there is a mouth-watering selection of such add-ons available. We loved being able to call up vintage, discontinued Orange heads, then mix them with realistic Fender effects, safe in the knowledge that each model is official and approved by the brands themselves.

There's also different packages of Amplitube 5, including free, SE and Max, so players don't get left out. And, in Amplitube 5, there is a clear winner of best guitar VST. Twenty years later, it has come a long way and Amplitube 5 proves IK Multimedia is still ahead. The options here are staggering — with not only a wealth of stellar amp and effects but features for writing and performance too.

But for this latest version of Amplitube, V. R Technology is a notable evolution; it offers millimetre-accurate virtual mic placement, culminating in Impulses per-speaker to completely re-shape tonal response and character far beyond EQ tweaking.

Of course, amp and effect models are the main course here and all the classics are covered here, with new amps including PRS Archon, Friedman Pink Taco, Bogner XTC and Diezel VH4 and an intuitive drag and drop signal chain delivering limitless tonal possibilities. Everything, right down to the type of transformer, or the pre-amp tubes, or even how hot you run the tubes, is up for grabs. We particularly loved the higher gain tones. These are often a barometer of how good an amp sim is, yet here they stood out superbly in our mix.

However, this is balanced by the inclusion of an Amp Match feature, which we loved. Essentially, you give it an amp sound, either from your playing or from a recorded track, and using its multitude of variables the sim will attempt to match it, usually to a decent level.

Well worth checking out. You can, for example, isolate a single guitar line in a crowded mix to help you learn it, before inverting the filter to remove that part so that you can play along with the recording. Options also exist to change the speed without changing pitch, or to change both, which will give you the infamous chipmunk effect. If you don't have a lot of fancy pedals to make your guitar work sound like U2, not all is lost.

Audacity comes with familiar tools such as Echo, Tremolo, Reverb, Wahwah, and a truly disorienting Phaser. Since the program is open-source, the community is constantly developing more plug-ins, and if you know what you're looking for, it's hard to imagine that someone hasn't made it available for download. So you've finished mastering your track and you want to post it to your website.

Editing your file in WAV format will preserve your sound quality, though at the cost of hard disk space. If your basement studio doesn't have the soundproofing it needs, or your amplifier is older than you are, it's likely you'll benefit from knowing your way around Audacity. Beyond its extensive library of effects, its precision editing tools give you the control to cut microseconds out of your song, or, with practice, splice music seamlessly.

It's like Photoshop for musicians or better, Gimp , that is open source as well — immensely powerful, fun to explore, but not difficult to use if you're just making a few edits here and there.