When you have mastered a few songs on the guitar, you may want to record your performance so that others can hear you shred a fantastic solo; or you may want to use your recording to further improve your skills. In either case, you should acquire several ways to record guitar music while maintaining its sound quality. Depending on your situation and equipment, there are mainly three solutions to guitar music recording, including recording electric guitar. In this tutorial, we will take a look at them one by one. You're surely able to find out the best way to record guitar music.

Part 1: Record Guitar Music on iPhone with Voice Memos

If you're using an iPhone, you could turn to Voice Memos on iPhone for recording guitar. It would be the best way to record guitar music on the go. The Voice Memos app on iPhone allows you not only to record audio memos, but also to share them with your friends. The below steps would show you how to record guitar with iPhone's Voice Memos.

Step 1. Open Voice Memos on iPhone

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On the second Home Screen, tap the Extras folder to open it and then tap Voice Memos. The Voice Memos app opens, which allows you to begin recording your guitar music through the microphone of your iPhone.

Step 2. Start recording guitar

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Enter the Voice Memos app, tap the red Record button to get prepared for recording guitar. Then play the guitar so that the guitar music can be recorded by iPhone with the Voice Memos. When you are recording guitar music, this button will change to a red Pause button.

Step 3. Recording guitar

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During the process of recording, you can tap the red Pause button to pause the recording and then tap Done to stop recording. The blue line is to reflect the progression of your music memo. And you can notice a blue line moving from left to right, it shows that you're in recording mode.

Step 4. Save guitar recordings

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When you're done recording guitar music, a New Voice Memo dialog will be shown, where you can put in a name for the recording and tap Save. That's how you can save your guitar music in your iPhone for sharing with your friends in the future.

Step 5. Share guitar recordings

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Then you can find your recording of guitar music in a list of recorded memos, which allows easy organization and access. Tap it to play back, share it via AirDrop or Mail to let more of your friends know.

Part 2: Record Guitar Music on Android with Audio Recorder

The second solution is Audio Recorder on Android smartphones. Audio Recorder is an official Sony Audio Recorder application, making it easy to record and playback audio on your smartphone. So it's another easy way to record guitar music with good quality with recorder software.

Step 1. Search Audio Recorder on Android

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On the first Home Screen, tap the Market folder to open it and search "Audio Recorder" available for download.

Step 2. Download Audio Recorder on Android

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Download the Audio Recorder with such an icon above. After downloading this Audio Recorder, install in on your Android devices.

Step 3. Start recording guitar music

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Enter the Audio Recorder app, and tap the red button marked with "1" as above to start recording. Play the guitar music and make sure you play it in a quiet environment to guarantee the recording quality. If you need to stop recording for a while, tap the button marked with "2"; and tap it once again to resume recording. Tap the button marked with "3" when you have finished this recording of guitar music.

Step 4. Start recording guitar music

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When you are done recording guitar music, tap the icon as pointed in the screen below and you will get a new box, where you can put in a name for the recording. Save it as a new file for playback in the future.

Part 3: Record Guitar on PC with Leawo Music Recorder

You've got two ways to record guitar music on your mobile devices above. Do you want to know how to record guitar on PC? If you want solution for recording guitar on computer, Leawo Music Recorder would be the best way to record guitar on PC for you. Here it is. Leawo Music Recorder is the best Windows guitar recording software, capable of recording any audio sources including built-in input audios and computer stream audios. And guitar music is one of them.

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Leawo Music Recorder 

☉ Record any music file from computer stream audio and built-in input audio.

☉ Record music from 1000+ music sites like YouTube, Facebook, Veoh, VEVO, etc.

☉ Schedule music recording via the internal recording task scheduler.

☉ Automatically/manually add and complete music tags like artist, album, cover, genre, etc.

You need to download and install this guitar recording software on computer before you could record guitar on PC with it. The above links provide both Windows and Mac versions for download.

Step 1: Set audio source

Firstly, when Leawo Music Recorder is launched onto your computer, click the button-left "Audio Source" icon to set audio source you want to record. To record guitar music from microphone, you should choose "Record Audio Input". To record guitar music from computer or online music sites, choose "Record Computer Audio".

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Step 2: Specify the voice settings and choose the output profile

Secondly, click the "Format" button to set the output format you want for the recording. You could determine the bit rate, sample rate and audio codec of recordings.

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Step 3: Select your wanted output destination

Thirdly, click on the "General" button, and you will get a pop-up, where you can set the output route. It's where you want to save your recording.

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Step 4: Start to record guitar music

Fourthly, when you're prepared, click the red "Start" button to make Leawo Music Recorder start recording. It should be noticed that you must run Leawo Music Recorder before playing the audio source. Click the red button again when you're done recording.

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Step 5: Edit tags if necessary

Fifthly, when the recording is finished, your recorded guitar music file could be managed in "Media" interface, where you can see the recording Library and Playlist.
In Library tab, you can find All Recordings and Newly Recordings, all of them displayed with tags like Time, Name, Artist, Album and etc. You can even make further editing work on recordings by right clicking the desired recording and select "Edit Music Tags" to edit Title, Artist, Year, Genre and Album Cover.

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It's not hard to conclude that Leawo Music Recorder is a superb but easy-to-use music recording software program that allows you to record guitar on computers. If you're using a Mac computer, you could turn to Leawo Music Recorder for Mac for recording guitar on Mac computer.

Part 4: Video Demo on How to Use Leawo Music Recorder