Manually Adjusting the EQ for a Track


Now that you've added effects to the Hollywood Strings track, let's add effects to the Acoustic Guitar 2 track. Our goal is to make it sound slightly different from the Acoustic Guitar 1 track.

To accomplish this, you'll add Reverb and manually adjust the EQ. Just to keep things interesting, let's use keyboard shortcuts to select the track and open the Track Info pane. Also, feel free to adjust the settings with the playhead moving, or not, whichever method you prefer.

1.

Press the down arrow six times until the Acoustic Guitar 2 track is selected.

2.

Press Cmd-I to open the Track Info pane for the selected track. The details should still be showing in the Track Info pane. If they are not already showing, click the Details disclosure triangle.

3.

Drag the Reverb effect to around 25 on the Reverb slider, then select the Equalizer option to enable the Equalizer effect.

4.

Click the Edit button (which looks like a pencil, to the right of the Equalizer pop-up menu).

The Equalizer settings window opens with all parameters set to Neutral.

5.

Press S to solo the Acoustic Guitar 2 track. Press C to turn on the cycle region. Listen to the soloed track.

6.

Experiment with the different EQ sliders to manually adjust the EQ.

You can save your changes and create your own presets. You can also adjust the settings of the default EQ presets as well.

1.

At the top of the Equalizer window, click the EQ pop-up menu to choose a different EQ preset.

You may see a dialog asking if you want to save the file (effect setting) before changing effects.

2.

If you see the dialog, click Discard.

As you can see, you can save any of your effects settings as presets. For now, let's stick with a built-in preset.

3.

Choose Bass Boost from the pop-up menu.

This EQ setting boosts the bass end of the selected track.

4.

Click the Details disclosure triangle to hide the details portion of the Track Info pane, then press Cmd-I to close the Track Info pane.

The Equalizer window stays open in case you want to adjust the EQ with the Track Info pane closed.

5.

Close the Equalizer window.

Tip

Adding effects to a track can often raise the volume of the regions within that track as well. Before moving on, it's always a good idea to check the new volume level of a track once the effects have been applied.

6.

Press the spacebar to play the cycle region and watch the Level meters for the Acoustic Guitar 2 track.

The track is now too loud at times due to the added effect.

7.

Lower the Volume level slider on the Acoustic Guitar 2 track to 2.9.

8.

Press the up arrow to select the track above (the Acoustic Guitar 1 track), then press S to solo the selected track.

Now you hear both guitar tracks together.

9.

Press the spacebar to stop playback.

10.

Press C to turn off the cycle region, then unsolo both the guitar tracks.

11.

Press Shift-Cmd-S and save this version of the project as HB with effects.

Mission accomplished. You've added effects to the Acoustic Guitar 2 track to make it sound slightly different from the Acoustic Guitar 1 track.

That's the end of the fourth step in creating a final mixadding and adjusting effects.

Note

If you didn't complete all of the previous exercises, feel free to open the project 7-4 HB with effects to catch up. Save the project as HB with effects to the My GarageBand Projects folder on your Desktop.





Apple Training Series GarageBand 3
Apple Training Series: GarageBand 3
ISBN: 0321421655
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 134
Authors: Mary Plummer

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