GarageBand Track Compressor Tips

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Part of the video series: GarageBand Web Casting & Plugin Tips

Summary: In GarageBand, Track compressors allows the user to boost or cut specific dynamic settings of a single track at a time separate from the others. Use this GarageBand plugin to edit and mix an existing track of music as an experienced music producer shows how easy it is to use.

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By Rattanak Ouk
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Rattanak Ouk is an engineer from West Hartford, Connecticut. He was born in Cambodia and was raised in the United States. He attended the University of Hartford and today words as a...read more

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"The next thing that we're going to look at, is a track compressor. What we're going to do first is just open up our info, track info button. Slide that open and go to our mask track. The next thing that we're going to do is make sure that our compressor is clicked and play our track. The next thing we do is just raise the fader a little bit. Kind of tightens everything, the compressor is going to tighten everything from a certain threshold, you know what I'm saying? So, when you're doing it, you just got to make sure that, it's not too high and it's not too low. You want just a little bit of compression, so that it kind of makes it, just kind of stand out. It just kind of brings the softer parts up and kind of messes everything together. So everything is more consistently even, throughout the entire track. So if you're doing drums and things like that, or like you have like a bass, that's you know, that's in and out. You want to really have it really be even, so you want to kind of use like a lot of compression, but not too much."