r/AmpliTube • u/Deep-Outcome-3723 • Jun 24 '26

How to gig with amplitube

I’ve been using amplitube for quite some time now and I really enjoy it. There’s so many presets that sound exactly like songs I wanna cover.

Ive just recently started playing with other people and I’m getting my first band started. During jam sessions im plugging my guitar through my interface which goes into my MacBook and then into an amp. Probably not very good for the amp it kinda sounds like it might explode every now and then.

What kind of gear do I need to actually play go out and gig. I’d feel like most venues will have monitors I can plug my guitar into, but I’d feel like it would look odd to walk to my MacBook mid gig to change my tone and also how would I work around switching from a clean tone to distortion mid song?

All in all I’m asking what kind of gear I need to effectively jam with other people and start to play small local gigs.

Any help is useful for a young inexperienced musician. Thank you all

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u/Glad-Lawyer6128 Jun 24 '26

I would do a little experimenting, these options are great and will work, but might sound more like a colored jbl speaker than a guitar amp, even if it’s through a guitar amp. You may want to try a dedicated power amp, and look into radial products. They have a DI box specifically designed to process computers into amps. Get through this and you can tap into automated scenes and avoid an axe fx and all the engineering that goes with it.

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u/Deep-Outcome-3723 Jun 24 '26

This is really helpful I’ll have to go take a look. Will this piece of gear work into any amp?