help with Garageband?

Tragabigzanda · Post by **Tragabigzanda** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:45 am

So I went out to Sear Sound, interviewed TJ Doherty, and now the microcassette tapes sound terrible (much worse than when I did a sound check in my living room). All the speech is real low and muddy, so I'm thinking I'll just dump it all into Garageband and clean it up. But I'm not really familiar with garageband--what features does it have that are helpful to me right now?

lysander · Post by **lysander** » Tue May 06, 2008 4:46 am

That's a tough one -- Garageband has its own basic effects, but it also comes with a bunch of pretty useful Audio Units (high and low-shelf filters, bandpass filter, graphic and parametric EQs, and so on), and I think that's where I would start.

They keep those extra Audio Units kind of hidden in the program, probably because they want to preserve the user experience for people who are just dabbling.

What tools you use to fix your recording would depend on what's up with the source tape -- if you can explain how it sounds in more detail, what's wrong with it, I'm sure there are folks around here that can give you better advice than I can.

@?,*???&? · Post by **@?,*???&?** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:28 pm

Speaking of Garbage...I'd record Shirley Manson for free, 24/7.

If anyone sees her, please let her know.

Tragabigzanda · Post by **Tragabigzanda** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:35 pm

Yea, I tooled around with it for 15 minutes or so, and was able to clean everything up a bit. Not a bad little program (considering it's free with all macs), and it looks like it's got some tools that might be useful for demoing ideas. But it'll never beat my Tascam 4 track...

@?,*???&? · Post by **@?,*???&?** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:39 pm

Oh man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQhG1TwRyg

@?,*???&? · Post by **@?,*???&?** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:13 pm

Holy crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwFoXdN ... re=related

Gentleman Jim · Post by **Gentleman Jim** » Mon May 19, 2008 5:45 pm

@?,*???&? wrote:

Speaking of Garbage...I'd record Shirley Manson for free, 24/7.

If anyone sees her, please let her know.

then @?,*???&? wrote:

Oh man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQhG1TwRyg

and then, most distressingly, @?,*???&? wrote:

Holy crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwFoXdN ... re=related

Wow. Thanks for pointing out what a creep you are. Yep, women have parts that men don't. At your age I'm surprised this still has you so excited that you have to share it on a message board where people actually know who you are. Have the teenage runaways on your myspace top friends list stopped returning your calls?

Stay away from my wife and daughter.

lg · Post by lg » Mon May 19, 2008 6:16 pm

gee, and i thought this thread was about garageband... must have missed that turnoff to weird interpersonal shitville.

@?,*???&? · Post by **@?,*???&?** » Mon May 19, 2008 8:35 pm

Gentleman Jim wrote:@?,*???&? wrote:

Speaking of Garbage...I'd record Shirley Manson for free, 24/7.

If anyone sees her, please let her know.
then @?,*???&? wrote:

Oh man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AQhG1TwRyg
and then, most distressingly, @?,*???&? wrote:

Holy crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJwFoXdN ... re=related

Wow. Thanks for pointing out what a creep you are. Yep, women have parts that men don't. At your age I'm surprised this still has you so excited that you have to share it on a message board where people actually know who you are. Have the teenage runaways on your myspace top friends list stopped returning your calls?

Stay away from my wife and daughter.

Oh man, I thought this thread read 'Garbage Band'. Must be the double vision setting in!

rwc · Post by **rwc** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:38 pm

this is the best jeff thread I've ever seen.

thank you tape op

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