Song in lesson 4 acoustic guitar

In GarageBand '11, what is the song they have you play at the end of lesson 4 for learning to play acoustic guitar?

cmv2203 wrote:
it only records through the left speaker
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#leftspeakeronly
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
every time I record as I've always recorded the guitar, it produces fuzz.
what happens if you record without the cable plugged into the computer?

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Hey Everyone,
I'm currently working on recording an original song for acoustic guitar and voice. I'm running into trouble though because the guitar part for the verse and refrain are both quiet and understated, but I have this bridge section I do that is very loud. I'm mic-ing my guitar with an AKG 200 Perception Large Diaphragm condenser mic (round-about the 12th fret), and also via my built-in-mic in my guitar, both of which I run directly into my Presonus Firepod. I then record on two tracks at the same time, one for the AKG, and one for the built in mic. But, I'm having to set the sensitivity so low so as not to clip/distort during the loud bridge that I'm just getting a poor sound on the quiet verses and refrains. What's the best way to deal with this? Have a pair of tracks for the quiet parts, and a separate pair for the loud parts? But then I end up with an inconsistent guitar sound.... I'm really fairly new to both the recording process as well as Logic Pro 7. ANY AND ALL suggestions and/or resources are welcome! Thansk very much.
David
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.0 GHz Processor, 2 GB RAM, Logic Pro 7
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.0 GHz Processor, 2 GB RAM

Hi David,
When you say "you're getting poor sound" when it's turned down, is it really poor sound? Or are your ears favoring the other because it's louder? This is a common mistake with beginners. Louder isn't better, it's just louder.
You may need to experiment, but the first thing I would do is move the mic back a bit. Give your guitar some room to develop its sound, before it hits the mic. This will not only make the guitar sound more natural, but will buy you a little room with dynamics.
Normally, compressors are used to help tame the dynamics of a thing like this, but if you do not have decent quality hardware compressors, I would be patient, and find the best "middle ground" you can.
Keep in mind, when mixing, you can use automation and compression to even out the sections somewhat. Don't expect it to "go to tape" dynamically perfect. It doesn't always work that way.
But you could certainly record this is 2 sections, just make sure the ONLY difference is in the level of the pre-amps going to Logic. Make sure the guitar/microphone distance stays the same.
Then when mixing, you have control over the levels of the different sections, and for all intensive purposes, they should sound the same... meaning the same guitar in the same room... just played louder/softer, which by itself is two totally different sounds. Don't expect the softer parts to sound like the louder parts. they simply can't.. and more importantly, they shouldn't. That's the beauty of any acoustic instrument.

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Here's the solution (just in case someone else stumbles across this same problem and actually finds my question).
I'm an absolute beginner, so I'll describe this at a high level since I don't know all the correct terminology.
Open the ESX24 sampler on the Acoustic Guitar track. The selected instrument will be "Acoustic Guitar". Make a copy of that and rename it to Drop-D Acoustic Guitar. Bring up the instrument editor (the edit button).
Oddly, from the keyboard, D1 plays fine. But in my song, D1 is triggering two samples. When I play the note from the score (by clicking on the note), the instrument editor highlights to two samples, Zone #1271 and Zone #1399. 1399 is a chord and it is played in the range C1 to D1. I'm not sure how the ESX24 determines when to play each sample, since pressing D1 on the keyboard of the instrument editor only highlights 1271, but I don't really care. I changed the entry in the 1399 row to set the Key Range Hi to be C#1, so that it won't play on D1. There may have been another sample I had to do this to, but I can't seem to find it. In any case, you get the idea. Save the instrument, and now you can reliably play a drop-D guitar.
I hope that description was good enough to put you on the right track.

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2 grand LOL Well that's out of the reach of most of the folks here. I still say just get a good clean amp sound, be it from the GB amp sims, or elsewhere, and back off the guitar volume a bit and it'll clean right up. I like to use a 2 pickup guitar, and then blend the bridge and neck pickups to get the right twang.

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I posted this a few weeks back and haven't had a lot of activity and was hoping someone would look at again.
I'm relatively new to Gargeband. For some reason I'm noticing some of the acoustic guitar tracks have two (near duplicate) waveforms, one above the other, yet in other projects it is just the one. I prefer the one. I've looked through all the settings and I can't find out why. I assume it has something to do with mono vs stereo but in puts are the same on all files. I don't play with the settings in general so I don't know why they would be different at all.
I got a response, but it didn't really help much:
Regarding the waveforms, you are right. On waveform is a mono Audio Region, double waveform is a stereo Audio Region. If you record on an Audio Track that is set to a mono input in the Recording Source, it will record a mono Audio Region. If it is set to a stereo input, then it will create a stereo Audio Region.
Please note that the Recording Source is only important for recording part. You can drag stereo and mono Audio Regions around between Tracks because a Track itself is always "two track" aka "stereo" aka "left-right"
Remember that GarageBand distinguishes between three different types of audio files (indicated by their color code) There are a few things to pay attention to:
Joinging MIDI Regions will create just a bigger Region ("container") including all those MIDI Events inside that new Region (container). Joining Audio Regions is different. GarageBand performs a "bounce in place". It is like a mini export, mixing those Regions together. But this is only the first step. Now it takes that newly exported Audio File and re-imports it into the Project.
Now Remember: newly "recorded" Audio Regions are purple, imported Audio Regions are yellow. What happens during the join procedure is that your recorded (purple) Audio Region become imported Audio Region and therefore change their color to yellow.
Remember the difference between the three types of Audio Regions:
screenshot from my book "GarageBand 11 - How it Works"
You have to be aware of that little side effect of the join process. Yellow Audio Regions cannot have a Follow Pitch feature anymore. This is the checkbox in the Track Editor "Follow Tempo & Pitch". Purple Regions can follow both your Project's Tempo and Key (Pitch), similar to Apple Loops. Yellow Regions can follow the Tempo but not the Key of your Project!
So I responded, but did not get an answer:
Ok... for some reason this still isn't making sense. Just yesterday I created a new acoustic project and the opening acoustic track displays one wave (mono), then today, without ANY changes, I do the exact same thing and it displays dual waves. NOTHING has changed. The only areas where I see anything that an relate to this is in Preferences ->Audio/MIDI, where Audio Output is: Built-in and Auido Input is Generic USB (for my microphone). I also see on the main screen on the lower right area it shows Input Sourse: Mono 1 (Generica USB...). So that is it. This is the same for both occurrences where one shows two waves and the other 1 wave. It's just completely random.... there are no changes, no additions or plug-ins, just, "ok, today we're going to show two waves"!!

I posted this a few weeks back and haven't had a lot of activity and was hoping someone would look at again.
I'm relatively new to Gargeband. For some reason I'm noticing some of the acoustic guitar tracks have two (near duplicate) waveforms, one above the other, yet in other projects it is just the one. I prefer the one. I've looked through all the settings and I can't find out why. I assume it has something to do with mono vs stereo but in puts are the same on all files. I don't play with the settings in general so I don't know why they would be different at all.
I got a response, but it didn't really help much:
Regarding the waveforms, you are right. On waveform is a mono Audio Region, double waveform is a stereo Audio Region. If you record on an Audio Track that is set to a mono input in the Recording Source, it will record a mono Audio Region. If it is set to a stereo input, then it will create a stereo Audio Region.
Please note that the Recording Source is only important for recording part. You can drag stereo and mono Audio Regions around between Tracks because a Track itself is always "two track" aka "stereo" aka "left-right"
Remember that GarageBand distinguishes between three different types of audio files (indicated by their color code) There are a few things to pay attention to:
Joinging MIDI Regions will create just a bigger Region ("container") including all those MIDI Events inside that new Region (container). Joining Audio Regions is different. GarageBand performs a "bounce in place". It is like a mini export, mixing those Regions together. But this is only the first step. Now it takes that newly exported Audio File and re-imports it into the Project.
Now Remember: newly "recorded" Audio Regions are purple, imported Audio Regions are yellow. What happens during the join procedure is that your recorded (purple) Audio Region become imported Audio Region and therefore change their color to yellow.
Remember the difference between the three types of Audio Regions:
screenshot from my book "GarageBand 11 - How it Works"
You have to be aware of that little side effect of the join process. Yellow Audio Regions cannot have a Follow Pitch feature anymore. This is the checkbox in the Track Editor "Follow Tempo & Pitch". Purple Regions can follow both your Project's Tempo and Key (Pitch), similar to Apple Loops. Yellow Regions can follow the Tempo but not the Key of your Project!
So I responded, but did not get an answer:
Ok... for some reason this still isn't making sense. Just yesterday I created a new acoustic project and the opening acoustic track displays one wave (mono), then today, without ANY changes, I do the exact same thing and it displays dual waves. NOTHING has changed. The only areas where I see anything that an relate to this is in Preferences ->Audio/MIDI, where Audio Output is: Built-in and Auido Input is Generic USB (for my microphone). I also see on the main screen on the lower right area it shows Input Sourse: Mono 1 (Generica USB...). So that is it. This is the same for both occurrences where one shows two waves and the other 1 wave. It's just completely random.... there are no changes, no additions or plug-ins, just, "ok, today we're going to show two waves"!!

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With the microphone on my mac, im recording my guitar and i mostly hear the strumming and no sound is there an editing thing i can use to get rid of ugliness??

Oh, in terms of creating music, it's actually pretty bad, even for voice.
The built in mic is good for "text only", like chats, dictaphone like usage, quick&dirty recordings... But if you want to record music (not just noise), a decent microphone is the first thing you'll need. You'll also need an audio interface with a XLR input (preferabely with phantom power in case you got a condenser mic).
Recommendations for beginners: Shure SM-57 or -58 (good-for-all dynamic mic, but needs good preamps). Or AKG C1000S as a universal condenser mic.
Now the choice depends on which kind of music you like to record. For acoustic guitar, i said it should be a condenser. It's more crisp and clear as most of the dynamic microphones. I like the AKG C1000S because it is not as small and fragile as many of these intrument mics. You can use it for vocals, change the cardioid characteristics, record ambient sound and speeches, whatever.
The Shure SM-57/58 is the main workhorse in many environments. Whenever there's no better mic, no special mic for this or that, the engineer will look over his shoulder and tell ol' John Doe to "Gimmea57". Or 58 for vocals, because it has an integrated pop filter. You'll see many vocalists using the '58.
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Why two waveforms/soundwaves Garageband acoustic guitar track

I'm relatively new to Gargeband. For some reason I'm noticing some of the acoustic guitar tracks have two (near duplicate) waveforms, one above the other, yet in other projects it is just the one. I prefer the one. I've looked through all the settings and I can't find out why. I assume it has something to do with mono vs stereo but in puts are the same on all files. I don't play with the settings in general so I don't know why they would be different at all.
Also, I notice that for some reason when I make certain edits to the double waves tracks, that segment with turn orange (such as joining two segments) and will no longer be purple. I don't really love this either. Not sure if that's a separate issue or related.

Edgar wrote:
Please note that the Recording Source is only important for recording part. You can drag stereo and mono Audio Regions around between Tracks because a Track itself is always "two track" aka "stereo" aka "left-right"
Actually I have to correct myself on that one because it is a little bit more complicated under the hood (strange I can't edit my own forum posts anymore, is that feature gone?)
Regarding mono (one channel) and stereo (two channel), a Track in GarageBand has has to be looked at on three stages in the signal flow of the Track.
Stage 1: Input Source of the Track
The input is always determined by the Input Source selection. If you select a one channel Audio Device then the recorded Audio Region will be mono (1-channel, single waveform). If you select a single channel of a multi-channel Audio Device (2 or more channels), then the recorded Audio Region will also be mono. If you select the stereo channel of an Audio Device, then the recorded Audio Region will stereo (2-channel, double waveform)
Stage 2: Playback of the Audio Region
You can place a mono Audio Region or a stereo Audio Region on an Audio Track. But here is the important part. The setting in the Input Source (Track Info window) affects the playback. A mono Region will be played back in mono (the same signal coming out of the left and right speaker. If you have a stereo Audio Region and selected a stereo Input Source, then the Audio Region will be played back in stereo. However, and this is potentially very dangerous, if have a stereo Audio Region and have set the Track to a mono Input Source, then any stereo Audio Region wille be played back in mono. That means it is "summed together", left channel will play through the left-and-right channel of the Track and the right channel of the Audio Region will also play through left-and-right channel of the Track.
Stage 3: Output of the Track
The output of a Track always has two channels (left, right), routed to the stereo master bus. If the Audio Region on a Track "sounds mono" or "sounds stereo" depends on whatever happens in stage 1 and 2. And also don't forget the Master Effects. Adding Master Reverb to a mono signal will "widen" the signal to sound stereo.
Hope that clarifies it
Edgar Rothermich
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals
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