Here's a quick suggestion for what I hinted at. Try one thing at a time and
listen before changing all at once. First, try turning OFF "Live Performance on
ALL tracks, change it to "No Effects". Then choose "Show Master Track" from
the menu, and double-click the master track at the bottom to open its info
window. Now in the one place you can add an effect, add "AU Matrix Reverb"
from the popup menu. Then click the pencil beside it to get its (scary
looking) config window. Change the Wet/Dry mix to about 40%, and from the
popup menu at the top, choose "Large Room", or "Medium Hall". Try
listening. If it sounds better, move to part 2.... if it still sounds muddy, try
setting the wet/dry mix down to 30%.
Part 2: Well, if you double a track and pan each track to the far left & right,
then it sounds like it is right back in the middle (but "wider" sounding than if
you just have one voice in the middle.) So you don't want to do that trick to
EVERY voice, otherwise they're all in the middle again. But try this. Leave
each track doubled, but on each one, pan the left or right doubled track back
partway to the center, leaving the other panned track all the way out as-is.
Each doubled track will now be in a slightly different space, and will sound
clearer.
OK, now how does it sound? Post the update and lets hear it!
ttfn,
Drakonis
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harmonies, as usual. I like how you began to separate the different
voices in the first half by panning them a little to the right/left (I think
you did.) But I'd suggest moving some of the later voices even further
L/R (not a lot, just a little more) to help separate them more... because
this is a round, and being sung by the same person, the voices get
easily tangled up, so you need to keep them distinct. The second half,
I think you didn't move the voices off dead-center, they sounded on
top of each other. And finally, you used a little too much reverb (I
know, Alannah's going to jump in and say "There's no such thing!"), or,
you use the cheapie reverb slider in GB... time for you to showcase
your voice and newfound GarageBand mixing prowess by moving up to
(cue the loud trumpet fanfare) "AU Matrix Reverb"! Maybe I should
leave that to your KISA to teach you about (smrx.) I liked how you
invented this and put it together, you are really catching on to this
quickly! Good work here!
ttfn,
Drakonis
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