Digital Commons at Penn State

GarageBand 09 comes with a wide array of jingles and sound effects to make your podcast pop. To add an intro, outro or sound effects:

1. Click the Eye icon to open the Loop Browser.

2. Select a category, like Jingles, and then choose from the subcategories.

3. Click on a sound’s name to hear a sample.

4. When you’ve found the correct sound, click its name and drag it to the Jingles track in GarageBand.

5. Let go and the Jingle track will render. You may need to move your audio tracks around to accommodate the new addition.

Ducking

It may be necessary to lower the volume of backing tracks to more easily hear the spoken narration or dialogue. Lowering the volume of some tracks to make others easier to hear is called "ducking." GarageBand 09 automatically gives your vocal tracks priority to any underlying sound effects. However, you may want to change the order of ducking if you have two vocal tracks or need a sound effect to stand out.

You can apply ducking to any Real or Software Instrument track
1. Select Control > Ducking. A ducking control, upward facing and downward facing arrows, appears in each track's header.
2. Click the downward pointing arrow on each track you want to make a backing track In this case the Jingle Track is the backing track.

3. Click the upward facing arrow on the tracks you want to give priority. In this case, the 2 Voice Tracks have priority.
4. To edit the amount of ducking, open the Track Info Pane.

5. In the Track Info pane, select the Master Track Tab , then select the Edit Tab and then click on Ducker.

5. Drag the Ducking Amount slider to adjust the amount of ducking or select one of the preset options.