How you record at home with pro results?

I have the UX2 and I have gotten pretty far along. A few things to recognize:

1. GearBox is just modeling - not recording.
2. Ableton Live comes with the TonePorts and it's great once you learn it.
3. Line 6 gives you the 'Lite' version which limits you to a few tracks per project.
4. It helps to have a newer computer with at least 1 Mb of RAM - 2 is better.

I bought a book about Live ( and got the 'full' version) and it helped a lot, but it DOES have tutorials built in. With the UX2, even figuring out how to record guitar & voice at once isn't obvious until you figure it out. The cool part is once you figure out how to record a track it's pretty addictive - you can go back over a track and add effects, punch in & out to fix mistakes, add drums - you can make a decent demo if you try. it's like playing - the more you put in the more you get out. Good luck

Easy answer: I don't record with pro results, lol...

Lately I've been using Line 6's GearBox software running into GarageBand, but after fiddling with the demo version of Amplitube Jimi Hendrix I think I might end up splurging on a copy of the standard Amplitube Suite.

Those tube amp modelers sound pretty incredible in comparison to the Line 6 stuff, though I still really enjoy GearBox for its ease-of-use.

Of course, ultimately nothing I've come across in the digital arena can take the place of a well-mic'd amp with a high quality pre-amp but for quick at-home demos and such digital modeling is a really amazing tool to have at your fingertips.

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Dunno about studio but most live gigs I've worked at, the cabs were miked by SM57s.

An SM57 is a good general purpose mic for dynamic "directional" recording. It's used on countless albums and in many live situations. A good condenser mic can pick up "more", but when you are that close to a loud speaker, its very hard to tell the difference. Much more important than the mic is the mic pre-amp you plug it into. An Avalon 737sp will make that $99 mic sound 10x better.

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We are not pros....but we get "good sound". I mic my guitar cab with a cheap peavey vocal mic, and run it into my fostex digital recorder, and I get a better guitar sound than most folk's I know with all the fancy computer recording software, and expensive high-end mics. People cannot understand how this happens, but there it is....No fx pedals at all. I get a bit too much bass sometimes. But I manage to control it, somewhat.
I plug the bass straight into the same recorder for the bass tracks (NO D.I. box), with good results.
We never have enough mics for the drums, but still manage.
I have much better sound with a fostex doing this, than with a tascam.