The volume adjustment "dots" are tricky to manage precisely, are not copyable and do not move along with the sounds they are supposed to affect. For those three reasons I try to avoid using them until I've reached near the end of the construction process just before I make the final mix. I keep a notepad by the Mac to mark down which track/time I want to do volume adjustments on so I dont forget. Of course I do use them because some bits of a dub mix are all about volume change over time.
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This
shows the ending of Gipper Dub. I used a short fadeout on the Master
Volume over the main bassline. There is just enough time for the
fadeout to not squash the effects sounds. Listen to the end of Gipper
Dub then listen to the end of This Is The Space Age to compare them
then look at the long fade out example below. |
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Here
is the end of This Is The Space Age. The Master Track fade out is about
the same but a few things are different. I've set the fade out to start
several measures after the last sounds should end with enough time for
the effects to fade out naturally. GarageBand 1 had a problem with end
fadeouts when you would master the track to iTunes that it would cut
off the sound just after the last audio event, often ignoring the
Master Track's settings. I worked out a trick of putting in some sounds
after the last sound and muting the track that they were on to force
GarageBand to honor my Master Track fadeout. The bottom track on the
left is just a place holder and as you can see, it is muted. |
Here is an example of how I used them over the horns in "This is The Space Age"
Here you can see I kind of went nuts with the control points, but it ended up having kind of a good sound.
On to the next part.