1. Plug your guitar or bass in with a USB-C or Lightning guitar adapter, or an audio interface. Put headphones on. With a multi-input interface, choose the input in Settings → Recording → Inputs — or a pair (Inputs 1 + 2) to record something stereo, like a keyboard, a groovebox or a stereo pedalboard, in stereo.
  2. Record → Electric Guitar (or Bass). It comes with an amp and a speaker cabinet already set up.
  3. Turn on Hear Yourself on that track and play: you hear your guitar through its amp and effects, live.
  4. Tap Effects on the track: the Amp card is at the top. Choose an amp, then shape it with Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Presence and Volume — just like a real one.
  5. Cabinet is set to Matching (the one that amp is usually heard through). Try others: a 1×12 for clean and blues, a 4×12 for rock and metal.
  6. Pedals go before the amp: switch on Overdrive or Fuzz above it for more push, Chorus, Delay or Reverb below it for space.

The guitar amps, from clean to heavy: American Clean (sparkling clean), Tweed Club (warm, breaks up early), Tweed 4×10 (punchy blues), British Chime (jangly), British '68 (classic rock crunch), British Lead 100 (brighter and louder), British '81 (hard rock), Cranked '78 (saggy hot-rod lead), Boutique Smooth (smooth and vocal), Boutique Lead (singing solos), Modern High Gain (heavy riffs). For bass: Bass Studio DI, Bass Flip-Top, Bass Tube Stack, Bass Solid-State and Bass Grind.