Here’s a great way to audition guitar sounds if you’re using software amps:

  1. Record about 8 bars of a guitar part clean in Logic/GarageBand/Pro Tools.
  2. Put in a drum loop to make it interesting.
  3. Loop the 8 bars.
  4. Play it back.  And go through every patch in AmpliTube (or whatever)  and save the 2 or 3 best.
  5. Audition the 2 or 3 and pick the best one.

Took me half an hour to figure out the best guitar sound in Amplitube 3 for an old song of mine called “What Are You Trying To Prove.”  It’s a compressor pedal going into an American Tube Clean 2 preamp and eq model, with a 100W 6L6 amp.  I’m pretty happy with it.

Here’s a tip on recording with Amplitube.  Run Logic and AmpliTube at the same time, record in Logic and use AmpliTube to get as close as you can to the sound you want.  The recorded track is clean.  On playback, use the same settings in the AmpliTube plugin.  Very cool.  Of course, this will also work in Pro Tools/Reaper/whatever other program you use.