Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let me show you how to record audio using GarageBand.
I'm using GarageBand version 10 and we are going to do one of the simplest things you
can do with GarageBand which is just to simply record some audio from the microphone.
Let's start off by choosing an empty project and we're going to get asked a few things
here.
One of the choices that we want to make is that we want to do an audio project and record
using a microphone as a line input.
It gives me some choices here for my input.
It tells me here I've got this microphone selected.
I'm using a MacPro so I'm using a USB microphone selected.
If you are using an iMac or a MacBook Pro then you probably just have the microphone
selected there.
I've got some choices here about which input.
I can do stereo.
I'm just going to stick with the default and hit Create.
It will create the GarageBand project for me and I'm ready to go.
You can even see here under Audio it is listening in on my microphone.
So it is reacting to my voice.
Before I start recording I want to make sure I turn off the Metronome and also I want to
make sure I turn off the Count In so it just starts recording as soon as I hit the record
button.
Then I hit Stop when I'm done.
Hello, this is a test of recording on GarageBand.
Hit stop and I can rewind the playhead and I can play it back.
Now I can keep recording here.
I've got this playback head and I can position it wherever I want.
So I can put it here at the end and I can record some more.
Some more.
It puts it in there.
So this is kind of one track here and I keep adding to it.
I can also select these and remove them by just hitting the Delete key or I can move
them around.
So I can push this one further out.
I can rearrange them like so.
So there is a lot I can do.
If you want to edit these further you can.
You can actually go here and increase the magnification so I can see the wave form in
here.
I can hear what parts these are.
If I want to I can actually break pieces out so I can put the playhead right here for instance
and right where I want I can hit Split Regions, Command T will do that.
You can see I split this into two pieces.
So I can select this one and delete it or I can move it around.
There is a lot of different things I can do just by splitting up pieces I have done and
moving them around and rearranging them and deleting them and of course positioning the
playhead and start recording new things wherever I want.
You can also filter the voice.
So I select the whole track here just by clicking here and there are all sorts of things I can
do over here in the Library.
I can bring this up or close this by hitting the button here and I can say change the type
of vocal to basically kind of brighten it up, make it different, make it edgy.
All sorts of things that I can do to work with vocals.
There are some more in here for instance.
So a lot you can do and you can further customize these if you want.
You can download more.
To further edit these controls I can hit the button over here and bring up all these different
controls here that allow me to further customize how my voice is going to sound in this track.
I can adjust these pretty easily and I can switch to an equalizer view of it if I want.
So there is a lot I can do to control these and depending on what filter you have selected
as to what options you are going to see here.
So I should also add that you are also not limited to one track.
You can add another track.
It brings back all of this and we can create another microphone track there.
You can see I've got this first one and a second one.
I can have the second one selected, I've just clicked on it there, and if I record more
audio I'll be able to just add it here as another track as I record and I'll even hear
my voice from the first track playback.
So now we hear a combination of these voices and there is all sorts of different things
that we could do.
We could actually bring these segments from one track to another track.
Have them overlap.
So you can do a lot of different things in terms of editing and putting together audio
just from recording on the microphone.
Now that you've got something recorded you probably want to export it into an audio file.
Of course you want to save this as a GarageBand project so you keep all the tracks and everything
there and you can go back in and edit it.
But you also want to export it to a standard sound file.
You can just go directly and send it to iTunes if you want.
Or you can use the Export Song to Disk option.
This will allow you to save out the file to your Documents folder or wherever.
You can choose from a few different quality measurements here.
You can choose something lower quality if it is just voice or hight quality if there
is singing involved.
You can also choose the AIFF standard file format which is lossless rather than the MP4
audio format here which will be a smaller file size so more ideal for sending over email
or something like that.
Then you can export that file out and that file can then be used elsewhere in other programs,
video editing, all sorts of different places.