Adapted from the original article How to Create a Virtual Guitar Amp in Logic Studio
You can create your own virtual guitar amp (or virtual bass amp!) using some simple audio production software - the days when a studio needs wall upon wall of amps and microphones are over! Best of all, you can add your own virtual pedal board as well. You don't even need to understand audio production to get right to it.
Step 1. Open up the Logic Studio audio production software. When it prompts you, add a single mono audio track. Plug your guitar directly into the input specified.
Step 2. On the left hand side of the audio production utility you'll see a column for "Audio 1". Here you can manipulate the specific setting of the track. Directly below the EQ are some blank tabs. Click and hold on them to select Amps and Pedals, then Amp Design, then Mono.
Step 3. This opens up the amp window. Now you're finally messing with some real audio production! From here you can select some preset models, or choose your amp and cabinet separately from the drop down boxes.
Step 4. Old school audio production was as much about how you mic'ed the equipment as much as anything else - and newer software based audio production takes that into account. On the right hand side of the amp window, you can change the Microphone from ribbon, condenser, and dynamic. Best of all, you can hover your mouse over the cabinet to select the exact placement.
Step 5. No need to stop at the amp - let's add a pedal board to the mix. Close out of the amp window. Click another blank tab in the instrument pane (right under the amp designer button added in step 2). Select Amps and Pedals again, but this time choose the Pedalboard.
Step 6. Logic is famous for being more Apple-like than other audio production software, and that means fun and intuitive graphical interfaces. To use the pedal board, just click and drag some pedals from the right hand side over to the left side board. Try adding a "Mixer" pedal to split effects from the left and right speakers.