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Create podcast stings and bumpers<br />
While GarageBand comes with a useful library of goodies for<br />
your podcasts, it’s great fun to get creative and make your own<br />
Difficulty: Beginner<br />
Time needed: 30 minutes<br />
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GarageBand<br />
Time slip<br />
With the LCD in Time mode, snap to grid is<br />
virtually disabled, allowing you to move regions<br />
around the Timeline freely. This helps when<br />
adding extra sounds to the front of your bumper<br />
Knowledge base<br />
Your flexible friend<br />
The great thing about<br />
making your own jingles is<br />
that they can be adapted<br />
endlessly. For instance, a<br />
short bumper could be<br />
easily extended and reused<br />
as the basis of a longer<br />
music bed for a section<br />
summing up the podcast<br />
contents, the length<br />
tailored to fit simply by<br />
changing the number of<br />
repeats in GarageBand’s<br />
Arrange window.<br />
LCD mode<br />
Click here to switch the LCD<br />
display mode from bars and beats<br />
to minutes and seconds – very<br />
useful when gauging the length<br />
of your bumpers<br />
The podcast as a format borrows much from radio, so it’s no<br />
surprise that the most professional-sounding examples rely<br />
heavily on radio-style bumpers, stings and jingles as a kind<br />
of audio punctuation. Typically no more than 15 seconds long, these<br />
snippets of music, vocals and audio effects are used both to establish a<br />
podcaster’s identity and break up or highlight particular sections.<br />
The Podcast FX section of GarageBand’s Loop Browser is undoubtedly<br />
a useful resource, but for that personal touch, you can’t beat custommade<br />
jingles and effects, and where better to turn to than GarageBand<br />
itself for the tools? In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through the process,<br />
ending up with a finished audio file accessible for use in any project.<br />
Compress everything<br />
Bumpers and stings are all<br />
about impact, so where<br />
possible, enable the compressor<br />
on each channel when<br />
mixing to give all your sounds<br />
maximum punch and make<br />
them easier to sit in the mix<br />
Monitor effects<br />
The Vocal Transformer<br />
is always a good way<br />
to add a different<br />
dimension to your voice.<br />
Don’t worry about<br />
getting the sound right<br />
first time, the effect can<br />
be adjusted after you<br />
record your voice
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