If, say, mid-line a dog starts barking or a train comes by, press Stop, wait for the noise to die down, move the playhead back to before the noise started, hit Record again, and repeat those lines.
When it comes to editing, though, the playhead is your best friend. Be careful that you don't move the playhead back and then press Record, because you will record over the previous audio. Anyway, wherever the playhead is, when you press Play or Record, that is where it will start playing or recording. I know this because I am very smart and well-informed and totally not because I just Googled it for this primer. The little vertical bar down the screen is called the "playhead". If they are not, I suppose I can elaborate on this section of the tutorial with pictures.
The Record button, the Stop button, and File -> Save are hopefully pretty obvious. My solution is usually to Google the problem, ask Twitter, and cry, in roughly that order. If not, go to GarageBand -> Preferences -> Audio/MIDI and make sure things are set up correctly there. If not, the problem is with your microphone or your computer, not GarageBand, and is thus beyond the scope of this tutorial.ģ.) Reopen GarageBand. Make sure your computer is correctly recognizing the microphone. If GarageBand is having trouble recognizing your microphone:ġ.) Make sure it's for realsies plugged in and also not muted (I HAVE DONE THIS FIVE MILLION TIMES)Ģ.) Close GarageBand and go to System Preferences -> Sound. It will still give you a really bitchy message for having the audacity (heh, *audacity*) to change microphones on it, but that is its own issue, and I hope some day it gets therapy and finds a place of healing.
If you're going to add or remove a microphone, close GarageBand first. GarageBand really, really doesn't like it when you change sound options while it's open.
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Not that I'm an expert - I'm sure I only know 1% of the potential features - but I'll write up my process here, and please feel free to suggest better ways of doing things in the comments. Said she knew a newbie podficcer who was struggling to figure out GarageBand and could use a basic tutorial, so I thought I'd give it a try.
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