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10 Mixing and Adding Effects
GarageBand puts a complete recording studio on your
desktop, so you can mix your projects and add
professional-sounding effects.
In this lesson, you’ll learn some basics about mixing and effects, and learn how to:
 Set track volume levels and pan position
 Add dynamic changes using volume and pan curves
 Set the output (master) volume
 Add fade ins and fade outs to the master track
 Transpose parts of a project to different keys
 Add and adjust track effects
 Turn effects on and off
 Edit and save effect presets
What Is Mixing?
When you’ve built the arrangement of your project, the next step is to mix the project.
Mixing is where you step back and listen to the overall sound of the music, and make
changes to tracks and the project to balance the different parts, bring the music into
focus, and give it the right “sound.”
Mixing typically consists of the following steps:
 Balancing volume levels
 Setting pan positions
 Creating dynamic changes with volume and pan curves
 Shaping the music with effects