Should I mix outside of garage band or inside

I would like to create some podcasts and I was thinking about using Garage Band to do it. My question is whether I should purchase a mixer and a compressor externally, and send nice sound into the computer, or are those same mixing tools and compressor inside Garage Band just as good?

Garageband's mixing is different in approach from a real mixer, and it doesn't do real-time mixing. I haven't used it for some years so I'm not familiar with the facilities in the present version. The best place to ask would be in the Garageband forum.

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    DavidBacon wrote:
    Anyway, the overall, larger issue for me is the inability I have to choose and get non-Garageband instruments (largely orchestral) to play the Midi events given on various tracks. If my guess is correct then technically, orchestral instruments not offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Garageband Mixer channel menu are referred to as external Midi sampled instruments - still, IMHO the process is not clearly spelled out in the User Manual.  The simple step by step process whereby a non-Garage band instrument, say an orchestral instrument, is placed in a channel replete with Midi event (notes) waiting to be played should be easy, logical and given in a simple to follow format, but is not.
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