Hey! How is everyone doing? I have been a little behind as far as keeping up with my blog but I am back here to share with all of you the audio recorded commercial I made for this blog! In this recording, I use two different songs, “Sister September” by the French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa and “Dead God In Me” by the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames. I chose “Sister September” because I love how the intro builds up, starting off with a very nicely orchestrated arrangement of strings and then kicks in with heavy distorted guitar and a heavy drum beat. I spliced the song right before where the first verse comes in and switched it out for the prechorus. I decided to do this because I wanted to have as little vocals as possible because I feel like vocals tend to get in the way when a voice over is applied to music. I chose “Dead God In Me” as the outro simply because it’s one of my favorite songs from my favorite band, and of course, from my favorite album of all time. It’s simply a song I really enjoy and I was excited to feature it.
My experience with Garage Band was very strange. I felt that it would have been very easy for me because I have worked with other programs in the past, such as Reaper and ProTools when I was working with my old band from high school. I have a very fundamental understanding of the ins and outs of audio editing, however, I found myself being a little confused using Garage Band due to its simplistic design. First off, I couldn’t find out how to change the temp of the master track. I wanted to use the metronome in splicing because It would make it easy for me to determine where the measures start and end because they would be visually displayed. Instead, I had to listen to the track several times to make sure I was splicing in the right spots. Also, I had trouble navigating the menus at first. My gut instinct was to go straight to a pull down menu and import the two audio tracks that I used as my background music, however, Garage Band works differently than Reaper and ProTools. I found myself referring to the tutorial videos just to figure out how to import tracks. I also found it strange that there was no option to record enable tacks on the version I was using, and only the tack selected had audio recorded onto. I would question how good of a program garage band is for recording multiple tracks at once. As a drummer, I would normally need at least 6 tracks to record drums, 2 overheads, one snare, 2 on the tom toms and one in the kick drum. I don’t know if I would be able to do such a task on Garage Band with the knowledge I have of the program now. However, I find that Garage Band is a great program to play around with and use for simple audio editing, but it isn’t the best when it comes to doing more demanding tasks, such as multi-tracking.
A link to my commercial audio can be found here!
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