Fender’s free new recording app lets you simulate its iconic amps and pedals

Fender has released a escaped caller signaling app called Fender Studio that seems beauteous powerful. The app, disposable connected iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, supports multitrack signaling and offers a big of effects that emulate guitar pedals and respective of the company’s iconic amplifiers implicit the years. 

Some of the simulated amps see a 1965 Fender Twin Reverb and a 1959 Fender Bassman, but you tin get more, similar a Fender Super-Sonic oregon Tube Preamp, if you link the app to a escaped Fender Connect account. It’s the aforesaid communicative with pedals: you get options similar Overdrive and Small Hall Reverb to start, but you tin unlock others similar a Stereo Tape Delay and Vintage Tremolo by registering.

In summation to the simulated amps and pedals, the app has a assortment of basal effects similar reverb, delay, compression, and vocoder. You tin usage up to 8 tracks for multitrack recording, but registering the app gets you up to 16 tracks. 

The app besides comes with a fewer pre-recorded tracks to play astir with. You can’t usage them commercially — the app makes you hold to a licence statement that says truthful close astatine the apical — but they’re a bully mode to familiarize yourself with what it’s susceptible of. 

I played astir a small spot with Fender Studio connected my iPhone earlier penning this story. At archetypal glance, it’s akin to Apple’s GarageBand app. Both fto you usage effects that mimic classical amplifiers and pedals, person things similar built-in tuners and metronomes, and see a fig of antithetic effects and EQ options.

But Fender’s app feels much intuitive and makes amended usage of the cramped abstraction of a smartphone screen, with enactment for some scenery and representation predisposition (GarageBand lone works successful landscape). I find that I tin ne'er retrieve however to bash things successful GarageBand, and trying to fig it retired each clip is frustrating capable that I ne'er bothered to make a workflow for signaling with it. 

I’ve besides ever been a sucker for simulated amplifiers successful signaling apps, 1 country of bundle that ne'er truly gave up connected skeuomorphism. I haven’t utilized a Twin Reverb successful galore years and haven’t played done a Bassman, but conscionable signaling with a hollow-body guitar done my iPhone’s built-in mic — if you person a USB-C DAC, you tin usage that to grounds with a much nonrecreational mic, excessively — the effect was decent capable that I could spot utilizing it to conceptualize a signaling oregon adjacent marque a speedy backing way for a video connected TikTok.