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I mean you can still write and play clean with electric even unplugged with electric. Also, I never write with effects, I'll only experiment with them in post if I feel like a certain part is missing something. Usually what I'll do is run through a bunch of patches that have like delays and chorus on them to see if it gives it a better feel. But like 99% of the time I'm either using a light distortion (like van halen 1) or even less, and a clean with reverb. If you've never practiced acoustically I really recommend it. Just pick your electric up and jam on it without an amplifier, it'll do wonders for not only hashing out anything you need improve upon, but also build your natural sense of rhythm and timing. Because I've done that so much in the past, I really can almost play anything without a cue or metronome and be pretty close to where I should be. And that helps enormously when you start jamming with a band, because you won't have those cues, unless you're like rehearsing with in ears.
Speaking of in ears, I've been wondering. How exactly do you set up those in ear tracks with the key drone, metronome and little "verse coming up, building, chorus" voices? Are there websites where you can download those for whatever song you want or do you have to build them in ableton live yourself or something. If I do end up starting a 90s cover thing, I think I want to go that route only because I have the worst memory and once I turn the backing track off I totally forget where I'm at in the song sometimes or how many bars there are before the next transition. I guess live vocals help with that a bit, but still.
