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Drafting your Audio Narrative. Group discussion. Is your story cohesive/coherent/interesting? What voices are you using? Are you playing songs/jingles/sound effects? Where would be good places for them? Do you need help choosing songs/jingles/sound effects?
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Group discussion • Is your story cohesive/coherent/interesting? • What voices are you using? • Are you playing songs/jingles/sound effects? Where would be good places for them? Do you need help choosing songs/jingles/sound effects? • What have you icluded in your introduction? • Have you considered changing the order of paragraphs?
Let’s draft - GarageBand • If you have pre-recorded audio files for your main content, go ahead and drag them into one of the vocal tracks.
Cleaning Noise 1. Select your voice track, and bring up the Track info in your sidebar (Cmd + i). 2. Click on the Edit tab, and click one of the grey boxes to add an effect. Choose Treble Reduction. You can choose from the high, medium, low options, or even go in for the manual setting. You can tune the settings live while the track is playing to get a feel for what the effect is doing.
Adding Jingles/sound effects • Click Jingles, then click a category of sounds. • To preview a jingle, click one to start the jingle playing, then click again to stop playback. • Add a jingle by dragging it to the beginning of the Jingles track.
Ducking • GarageBandby default will automatically unduck the voice tracks and duck the Jingles and Stingers. Click this arrow to show the volume track
Converting your Podcast to an .mp3 file • Click Share > Export Song (or Podcast) to Disk. • Select Compress Using: MP3 Encoder, and Audio Settings: Musical Podcast if it contains some background music. • Click the Export button and specify a location to save it (MAKE SURE YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU SAVED IT!!!)