I’m not the most technologically minded o people, and it’s hard to get a clear answer in a single place – how does someone connect guitars/bass to a computer to record? And then where do things like DSPs and plugins come in?
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you need an audio interface, i like the focusrite scarlet 2i2, but there’s thousands to choose from.
you can plug in your instruments, and to the computer they behave like a microphone, you can record the raw sound with any sound app, like audacity.
for DSP you’ll run a DAW, just go with ableton live if you can. but there’s others: bitwig is free, vcv rack is free if you like modular synths.
inside your DAW you’ll get some basic signal processing built in, reverb, distortion, etc. you can still use your normal pedals tho.
the real fun comes when you start finding VSTs that you like, they’re standard software modules that you plug into your DAW.
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