Mixing and adding effects, What is mixing, Setting track volume levels – Apple GarageBand 2.0 User Manual
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Mixing and Adding Effects
GarageBand puts a complete recording studio on your
desktop, so you can mix your songs and add
professional-sounding effects.
What Is Mixing?
When you’ve built the arrangement of your song, the next step is to mix the song.
Mixing is where you step back and listen to the overall arrangement, and make
changes to tracks and to the overall song to balance the different parts, bring the
music into focus, and give it the right “sound.”
Mixing typically consists of the following steps:
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Balancing volume levels
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Setting pan positions
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Creating dynamic changes with volume and pan curves
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Transposing parts of the song to a different key
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Shaping the music with effects
Setting Track Volume Levels
The instruments and loops you use in your project may have different volume
(loudness) levels. In order to hear all the parts you’ve added, you balance the volume
levels so that no track overwhelms the others, and no track is lost in the mix.
This doesn’t mean that every track should be set to the same volume level. In
commercial mixes, certain tracks (typically the lead vocals, drums, and lead or solo
instruments) are louder, while other tracks (the backing instruments and vocals) are
softer.
To set track volume levels:
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For each track, drag the volume slider left to lower the volume level, or drag it right to
raise the volume level.