GarageBand 4 | Recording Process & Basic Mixing (Patreon)

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Hi Everyone,

In this fourth installment of GarageBand Lessons, we'll be discussing how to organize your recording session with good foundations so that as you build more layers, your timing and intonation are tight a solid.

Generally speaking, I always like to start a recording project with drums as the foundation so that each layer can refer back to the drums as the "standard of rhythm" for the recording. On the same note, its always important to tune your instrument to a tuner (preferably set to A440Hz) and keep checking your tuning throughout the recording!

In this lesson I also explore a few ideas behind mixing - adjusting levels first of all so you don't max out your Master volume, and second of all to make sure you're adjusting out of preference and not necessity by setting your baseline levels to the drums.

If you've got something to share using this process of drums first, then recording other instruments, please share on the community forum. 

Other lessons in this series:

GarageBand 1 | Getting Started

GarageBand 2 | Software Instruments

GarageBand 3 | Audio Interface & Setting Gain

GarageBand 4 | Recording Process & Basic Mixing (current lesson)

GarageBand 5 | Adding Effects and Final Mixing