GarageBand
Tips for processing your vocals
Learn some simple techniques for enhancing the singing performances within your songs
Getting vocals right is arguably the trickiest aspect of music production. There isn’t just the issue of singing the parts right, but also optimising the actual capture and post production too. Assuming you can sing and can tolerate your own voice, it’s vitally important to record on a capable microphone in the right environment. Steer clear of reflective surfaces, set a healthy signal volume that won’t clip (50-65%) and hit Record! Once you at least have some viable takes in the bag, GarageBand has all the core tools for processing things into better shape. In this guide we’ll start from a project that already has at least one vocal audio region tracked, before applying some essential processing tricks.