Podcasting Day 3

Day 3: Editing Audio in Garage Band

Objectives: 

  • Know how to get audio into GB to edit (through SD card or from GB itself) 
  • Know how to do basic edits in GB
    • Cuts 
    • Adding sound effects and music 
    • Editing volume 
    • Taking out background noise 
    • Using keyframes to fade in and out
  • Know how to export final audio to post in on Spotify for Podcasters/other platforms

 

Intro

  • Prayer, get to know you, etc 
  • Who here has used GB before (besides recording last time?) 
  • GB is an Apple product, so if you have a PC- you’ll have to come in to the library and use our Macs

 

Bringing an audio file into GB: 

  • If you’ve recorded in GB: 
    • When you record something in GB, you’re just creating a GB project file, not an audio file
    • If you need to move computers, you’ll want to save that project file and the audio file to somewhere you can access to edit later
    • Importing your intro file into GB: 
      • Drag and Drop from Finder into a new track on GB 
    • Bring in Example File!

 

Interface:

  • New project window: 
    • You can choose to add a metronome, a key, input and output microphones and speaker stuff 
    • Once you choose to make a new project, you choose between MIDI, Drummer, Mic or Line, Guitar or Bass and input again 
    • For most of us, we just need a single audio track 
  • Menu Bar 
    • Play, pause, record, loop at the top left 
    • At the top right, you can turn on the count-in and the metronome
    • Slider at the top right is the overall volume controls  
  • Have the students bring in their audio from yesterday to edit!

 

Trimming your audio

  • Put your cursor on the far right of the audio track, and there’s two options to trim the track 
    • The top one is the looping option, don’t worry too much about that one 
    • The bottom one is the trim option, drag to trim the audio 
    • When you trim audio, it remains there, just hidden, on the project- but when you export it, it will permanently take it out 
  • You can cut your audio at the playhead by using CMD+T or right clicking 

 

Editing your audio

  • Find this icon at the top of the page 
  • These are your audio controls 
  • Explain what each does: 
    • Dynamics
    • EQ
    • Squeeze
    • Sends 
  • Presets 
    • Under this icon at the top left
    • That’s the library icon, and under that there are lots of helpful presets that adjust your audio layer 
    • Click on one to apply it to your audio layer 
    • It will change your settings, you can then go in and edit those dials to your liking 
    • Have them experiment to find out what each preset does 
  • Reducing Background Noise
    • Noise Gate (with a preset)
  • EQ reducing frequencies
    • Under EQ, EQ tools: 
      • You can see what it’s doing with the graph 
  • Keyframing/Automation 
    • To add a fade in/out, etc, you can go to Mix then Show Automation
    • Make sure it says volume 
    • A yellow or white line should appear 
    • You can add keyframes to edit the volume 
      • Explain keyframes



Stacking tracks

  • If you want some music, you can stack tracks on top of each other 
  • On the left of the track, there’s an volume level control and a Pan control
    • The pan is where the audio is distributed, L/R etc 

 

Bring in Your File to Edit 

  • Editing audio takes time

 

Conclusion: 

  • Next time, we’ll be going over Premiere Pro and editing video and audio in the same program