In this tutorial, we are going to show you a few tricks that will make GiO an even more powerful and invaluable tool to your guitar recording work flow. We will show you how to create and arm a new track, and then scroll hands free through tracks using only GiO.

Creating a new track

Click on Logic Pro > Preferences > Key Commands

In the search bar type “New Track”

Select  “New Track with duplicate setting”

click “Learn new Assignment”

Press button 4 on GiO

Now whenever you step on GiO button 4 you will create a new track with the same amp and effects you were using on the previous track.

Record Enable

With record enable you do pretty much the same thing.

Click on Logic Pro > Preferences > Key Commands

In the search bar type “Record Enable”

Select  “Record Enable Track”

click “Learn new Assignment”

Press button 5 on GiO

Now button 5 will allow you to toggle record enable on the track that is selected

Scrolling through tracks

Click on Logic Pro > Preferences > Key Commands

In the search bar type “Select previous track”

Select previous track

click “Learn new Assignment”

Press GiO’s “Previous” button

Now do the same for the next button

Click on Logic Pro > Preferences > Key Commands

In the search bar type “Select next track”

Select next track

click “Learn new Assignment”

Press GiO’s “Next” button

Now you can record multiple guitar tracks without ever having to touch your computer.

The way we assigned the buttons is just a suggestion, so feel free to assign the buttons however you like to make GiO an incredibly powerful tool for how you record electric guitar.

Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel is one of Australia’s most respected musicians. Recently given the Guitar Legend Award by Guitar Player Magazine, Tommy has a professional career that spans almost five decades as an iconic performing artist. A household name in Australia, he has garnered hundreds of thousands of loyal fans worldwide with millions signing on to YouTube to study his unparalleled fingerpicking technique. With 300 shows a year over the past four years, Tommy is on the road more days than not. Paired with the free version of GarageBand on his MacBook Pro, his Apogee ONE proves to be the ideal traveling companion to make recording on the road feasible and hassle free. Currently on a jam-packed international tour, Tommy kindly spared a minute to delight and entertain the folks at Apogee with a live performance and recording of Australia’s unofficial national anthem, “Waltzing Matilda.” Recorded with ONE’s internal condenser microphone at Berkeley Street Studio, his performance will be sure to inspire and amaze.

About Tommy Emmanuel, the ‘Guitar Wizard of Oz’

Tommy’s unique style – one he calls simply “finger style” – is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all ten fingers. Rather than using a whole band for melody, rhythm, bass, and drum parts, Tommy plays all that- and more -on one guitar. Guitar legend Chet Atkins was one of the first to inspire Tommy to try this “fingerpicker” style as a child. Decades later, Atkins himself became one of his biggest fans.

His popularity in the US has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, aided by a non-stop touring schedule and increasing exposure in the media. 2005 kicked off a stream of US honors and awards. Tommy was inducted into the National Thumbpickers’ Hall of Fame in Muhlenberg, KY (the only non-American ever to be selected) and was also awarded with Thumbpicker of the Year and Album of the Year. He played Carnegie Hall for Les Paul’s 90th birthday Tribute Concert and his The Mystery album earned a Grammy nomination in 2006 for Best Country Instrumental for “Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag.” In 2008, Guitar Player Magazine and Acoustic Guitar Magazine named him Best Acoustic Guitarist and Gold Medalist – Fingerstyle category- in the Readers’ Choice and Players’ Choice Awards, respectively. Most recently, in 2009, Tommy was honored by Guitar Player Magazine for the second time as “Thumbpicker of the Year” and was given, as mentioned earlier, the magazine’s Guitar Legend Award.

Tommy’s newest album and DVD Center Stage were produced in 2008 based on the popularity of his episode of a PBS series called “Sierra Center Stage” filmed live at the famous Sierra Nevada Brewery venue in Sierra Nevada, CA. Tommy’s Center Stage video has been featured on PBS stations around the country during 2009, drawing ever-larger sellout crowds to his live shows.

In all, Emmanuel’s catalogue includes 16 musical recordings running the gamut of solos, duets, ensembles, cover tunes, and originals, both electric and acoustic guitar. He has made several instructional DVDs and regularly teaches master classes on the road. At 54, performing live is more important to him than ever and he tours constantly. Guitar players of all levels come to his shows to watch the magic hands of the “Guitar Wizard of Oz,” but his appeal goes far beyond musicians. His live shows are known for their humor, passion, and infectious joy. The power of his charismatic showmanship will be foremost in his legacy.

Hear the raw audio file of Tommy’s performance on the Apogee Hear ONE page.

To learn more about Tommy or to check out his upcoming tour dates, please visit: http://www.tommyemmanuel.com/

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“With the sound quality and versatility of Ensemble, combined with your favorite core audio application, you have the most complete fire-wire based digital audio station available.”

“Ensemble features 36 channels of simultaneous audio inputs and outputs,  including 8 channels of Apogee’s legendary A/D and D/A conversion. Channels 1-4 have four transparent digitally controlled 75 db Mic Pre Amps. And since most engineers love using different types of mic pre amps, channels 5-8 of ensemble are  line input only. So, you are free to use your favorite mic pre amps to compliment the already extraordinary sounding Ensemble Mic pre-amps.”

“For digital connectivity, Ensemble also has 8 Channels of ADAT I/O, 2 Channels of S/PDIF coax or optical I/O, and FireWire connectivity.

With the help of the Los Angeles band, Blue Judy, We are going to show you how to make a professional recording using the Apogee Ensemble.

We started off by using Ensemble and Logic on a MacBook Pro to record scratch guitar and vocal tracks. For vocals, we used a standard dynamic mic, plugged into channel 1. We connected a compressor to the insert on channel 1 . The send of the Ensemble goes to the input of the compressor and the output of the compressor goes back to the return on the Ensemble. The signal now goes through the Ensemble mic-pre, through the compressor, and then gets converted by Ensembles A/D converter.”

“For guitar, we connected into the high  Z instrument input number 2 on the front of the Ensemble, and used Guitar Amp Pro in Logic. We set the tempo of the click track in Logic and recorded the scratch tracks.

Next we recorded our drum tracks. For this, we used the Ensemble and Logic on a MacPro. The session could have easily been finished on the Mac Book Pro, but we wanted to show how great Ensemble works on either computer. We used a total of 8 mics for the drums. For the overheads and room mics, we used the Ensemble mic-pre amps. For the close mics, kick,snare, tom 1 and tom 2, we chose API Mic pre amps. The overheads and room mics were connected to the inputs 1-4 of the Ensemble. Because we used condenser mics, we engaged phantom power on each of the ensembles mic pre amps in the maestro control panel.The API mic preamps were connected to inputs 5-8 of the Ensemble by using XLR to quarter inch trs cables.

For bass, we ran direct into the high z instrument input in the front of the ensemble. And like the scratch vocal track that we did earlier, we inserted a compressor.The signal goes through the Ensembles high z input, through the compressor, and then gets converted by Ensembles A/D converter.

Since we used a powerful Mac Pro for this session, we were able to keep the buffer very low just using software monitoring in logic. However, if you have an older mac, or you are running a lot of processor intensive plug-ins and software synths, you may need to use the maestro software that comes with the Ensemble for low latency monitoring. If you’re not sure how to use Maestro, please visit Apogeedigital.com for further information.

We mic’d the guitar amps using a dynamic mic and a ribbon mic and the ensemble mic preamps. The connections are pretty straightforward. The ribbon mic is connected to channel 1, and the dynamic mic in channel 2. We then used the Maestro Mixer B to sum both inputs together so that we can record them onto one track in Logic.”

“Once again, using the Ensemble mic-pre amp, the final vocal track was recorded pretty much like we recorded the scratch vocal track, only this time using a condensor mic. The 48V phantom power box must be checked in maestro for the Ensemble mic pre being used.

If you would like to download the finished track of the Blue Judy song ” Little fires” or for more information on what we used during the recording, and how we used it…You can visit us at Apogeedigital.com”