Been been using GarageBand as a drummer since 07ish and have always loved it. Glad to see musicians using it, and giving it props. It really is all you need. Most of what you made very educational for everyone I learned by much trial and error (and swearing.) You are a great teacher, and player; thanks for this video!
This is the absolute best instructional video I have seen in years. Cant wait to watch the whole series. Your drums sound KILLER. I dont own a modern mac... so my garage band is well over 20 yrs old. I dont even know how to use my mac. It sits in the corner, all alone, watching my windows pc laugh at me because I can't use it either. Your video is making me want to go buy a new mac and dig in.
Fantastic! Just found your awesome tutorial as I was looking for Garageband recording tips. Right on the money and easy to understand! Thank you so much!!!!! Greets from Germany! 🥁👍😊
Thank you so much for this video, I'm just getting into recording, and this helped so much. Looking at the comments, others feel the same way. Killer content!
Girl. You made my fucking night. Not only are you super fucking cool and can actually play but you literally had the same interface as me! You have no idea how many videos I went through of dudes staring down at a piece of paper not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground who were making videos on connecting real drums to GarageBand without even showing a drum kit in the video!
Great video! This was super informative and helpful. I just went thru learning this process a few months back to use for a full band. It’s honestly so much easier than I ever would’ve thought. Make sure you have all tracks record enabled or you’ll be bummed if you’re trying to catch stuff live :)
So glad to hear it was helpful! I know it's a long video and a bit dull at times - but if it's useful and you learned something, that's what counts! Best of luck to you.
Just found this video because I am looking on how to use garageband tutorials. Very nicely done. I am going to be coming back and pay a lot more attention due to the fact I have a New Mac Mini (upgraded) coming in a couple weeks and will be hooking my Tascam Model 16 into it with 8 Drum mics (Pearl Studio Session Select) along with a few more inputs for optional instruments (Bass & Lead Guitars along with a keyboard). P.S. Exceptional job on the Drums. See you Later, Ward L.
Just found these videos. Thank you so much for the detailed tutorial. I just have one question for this part. If I want to add a click for me to hear, where would I place that??
Awesome video, very informative. I was going to purchase the focusrite, but after watching your video I think I am going to get the tascam it seems very user friendly.
Hello I’m having some trouble getting my tascam 16/08 to recognize my snare mic on channel 2 but all other lines 1,3,4,5,6 are working just fine any advice thanks
As for covers, how am I putting in the song with my drumbeat? I get how to get my drums in garageband but what about the song audio? This has to do with the channel 10 and Spotify inforight?, but how do you listen/play to it while it simultaneously records? Still confused by it... im a slow learner🔥
question, so I did everything in the video, but for some reason, I can only hear one mic at a time. I’ll click one of the tracks, and i’ll only hear the sound from that mic, and not all of them. Thanks
How do you get every drum input? Cause my mixer only shows as a output not several inputs. I have a red and white cable connected to my mac on both r sides. I’m so confused I’m new to this so yeah 😅
Hi Jackie, how do you output from your Mixer to the (Ipad, Mac Book, or Mac) ? If I have electronic drums (Alesis DM10) can I run a lead from the drum module direct into the Ipad?
Yes. For example my electronic kit just goes USBC straight to my MacBook. That will carry a midi signal though so keep that in mind. There are great TH-cam videos on this topic that will explain better than me! But also not sure about recording to an iPad. Never done it.
I have a question I bought some drumming samples and I’m trying to put them in GarageBand and I don’t know how lol 😂 please I need your help I have some samples like how you triggered your kick how did you put the trigger in there?
dumb question time! I currently use PC and presonus, and this same Tascam. I record with people from all over. What they do is send me an audio track of their song, usually guitars/bass and then I add my drum part. I do this in Studio One by just adding a input track, and dragging/droppoing the WAV file they send me into it. Does it work the same way with garageband?
Would you be able to make a video over how the tascam settings effect GarageBand? Do I mess with the DAW first or mess with the Tuscan first. These questions might seem confusing because I am asking them away from the kit to try and get prepared when I get back home to the drums lol. My next question would be if I plug headphones in the Mac, am I hearing the interface and the DAW or just the DAW
Hi Jackie, its about time someone put together a video like this! Nice job! Question for you: Can u recommend an interface that won't break the bank? For drums you probably need 6-8 good mic pre's, correct?
Hi this was so helpful thank you! I’m helping my son record for drum covers. One question is when I put my headphone directly in my Mac Pro, I can’t here the beats from the interface? I can hear the ticking but not the mics? What am I doing wrong🤷♀️
i’m pretty sure it’s not something that you fix through garage band. I had the same problem a couple of months ago, and if I remember correctly, you just change the output in the sound settings on your mac, it’s nothing with GarageBand.
Question about condenser overhead microphones... I'm completely new to everything and I know the overheads are condenser mics. Can GarageBand send the power through my interface? I'm using a Behinger XR18 which have no buttons or sliders. So not sure how to send power so I can run my overheads
Yes you should be able to plug in the mics and then connect the mixer to your pc or Mac. Your nice don’t need power. The mixer does need power via usb to computer.
At around 5:15 in this video you talk about putting your in-ears into your laptop instead of the interface due to being able to mix live and hear what's happening in real time. I have the same interface and am new to recording. Is it not possible to mix live and hear what is happening through the interface with in-ears? Thanks!
Great video and just what I was looking for. I’m using a focusrite and can’t get GarageBand to hear/record my iPhone plugged in the same way you did. Won’t seem to read it :/ Any tips on how you got that backing/play along track to work?
I’m having the same problem with the Tascam interface - the backing track/song that I’m playing from my phone (Spotify) sounds awful! Please let me know if you figured out how to fix it. Thx
For those doing it the easy way using edrums into GB ios like me, and using the module sounds instead of the GB kits (Yugh), if you're playing along to MIDI native GB instruments, you'll find that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to have perfect timing through the whole song, so I literally play one bar perfectly and copy and paste that bar, the same goes for the rolls. Unfortunately, quantising is only available for the GB kits, hence the reason I do it like this.
Hey im running into an issue. So i followed all the steps but when i press record all the channels are recording the same exact thing. They arent recording separately even though i made channels for all of them. Do you may know the reason why ?
I think channel 10 was the audio track for the music. It would be a lightning adapter that plugs into 1/8” cable to a 1/4” adapter that plugs into the interface.
great video! do you know if it is possible to turn up and down some parts of the kit with garageband? (for example aplify the kick drum and low the cymbals?)
I have one question I'm having trouble I seen that you said to unplug the Jack from the interface headphone input and put it into the computer where you can hear all the separate tracks at the same time but I'm not getting any sound everything is enabled and it's only working one track at a time whenever it's in the headphone jack of the interface only. How do I trouble shoot this? I have a new macbook pro 2 M3 15 inch with the same tascam interface
I have 2 questions 1) whenever i eq or do something to track it automatically changes alle the tracks to that eq although I selected only 1. How can i fix this? 2) his there a way to safe eq settings so i dont need to mix my drums every time i record?
You mention plugging your in-ears directly into your laptop to hear the drums mixed in real time. I am new to recording and have the same interface. Is having hearing the drums mixed in real time through the interface not possible? Or another way to ask.. what is the difference between running the in-ears through the laptop vs. the interface. Thanks much!
Yes you can do either or! If you go direct from the interface you will be hearing a raw mix. If you plug into the computer to use the built in output from GarageBand you’ll be hearing any effects added into GarageBand.
@@jackiecas1 Thanks so much! Awesome and helpful info. Couple more things.. 1) Your videos are clear, cohesive, and very helpful! Keep it up. 2) The music track (a drumless youtube track) when pushed through the interface (I have the Tascam us16x08 too) is a lot thinner than when say I run it through my in-ears from my iphone. I can't hardly hear the bass guitar. Thoughts? 3) How do I in GarageBand duplicate a project without having to create 8+ tracks in a new project? That's super tedious. Thanks again for your help sister!
@@greghill8657 I just created the project and saved it as “drumming template” for example, then when I record something, save it with a different name so you can always go back to opening “drumming template” as a blank slate.
@@starchild692 it works ok. Ran the program but I couldn’t find a windows program I liked. I’m sure the are out there but I just decided to send it and buy the new M1 MacBook Air
@jackiecas1 Thanks for the brilliant and super simple tutorial for Garageband. My son is now recording his drums. Question: we are trying to use his i phone music tracks to play along to into his Beringer UMC 1820 interface (as per your video) however the sound quality into the interface and subsequently back into the monitor headphone socket is poor ( reverby/echoey/not clear) do you have this issue and if so, any answers for a solution greatly appreciated. Am in the uk on e mail: alex@alexgberry.com Many thanks Alex
Did you ever find an answer to this problem? I’m having exactly the same issue using the same Tascam interface in this video. The song that’s playing from my phone into the interface, into GarageBand sounds awful!!
@@ed-roberts the issue is that the feed from the I ozone was stereo and it was only picking up one of the channels. The options are to either to set the I phone to mono or buy a lead that goes from stereo to mono. Works fine now ... good luck
@@goodmorningsales thx so much for the reply!!! Switched my phone to mono and it worked great! Now if I could only figure out how to eq each of the drums, I change eq and they all still sound the same, kick drum sounds awful. Oh well, I’ll keep at it. Thanks again 👍
Short, sweet and to the POINT! This is the way ALL tutorial videos should be done. Great Job!!
Thank You!!!!!!!!
Glad it helped!
Been been using GarageBand as a drummer since 07ish and have always loved it. Glad to see musicians using it, and giving it props. It really is all you need. Most of what you made very educational for everyone I learned by much trial and error (and swearing.) You are a great teacher, and player; thanks for this video!
This is the absolute best instructional video I have seen in years. Cant wait to watch the whole series. Your drums sound KILLER.
I dont own a modern mac... so my garage band is well over 20 yrs old. I dont even know how to use my mac. It sits in the corner, all alone, watching my windows pc laugh at me because I can't use it either.
Your video is making me want to go buy a new mac and dig in.
I remember when I first started recording I went directly to your video which helped me alot
Fantastic! Just found your awesome tutorial as I was looking for Garageband recording tips. Right on the money and easy to understand! Thank you so much!!!!! Greets from Germany! 🥁👍😊
GarageBand...wow!!.....started using it and coming from Ableton...it's such a breeze to use....and thanks for the pointers, helps a lot...
Thank you so much for this video, I'm just getting into recording, and this helped so much. Looking at the comments, others feel the same way. Killer content!
Girl. You made my fucking night. Not only are you super fucking cool and can actually play but you literally had the same interface as me! You have no idea how many videos I went through of dudes staring down at a piece of paper not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground who were making videos on connecting real drums to GarageBand without even showing a drum kit in the video!
sorry but this is the best video for beginners! Thank you ver mutch and Greetings from Germany!
Thanks. I’m doing research to set up a simple home recording studio for my students and drum demos. You’re very clear and concise. Cheers
Great video !! Helped me a ton- Thankyou for taking he time to produce it. Here's to drumming !! Cheers
very thanks for this video guy!!!!!!! i needed this
Super helpful and easy to understand, thank you!!
I’ve been waiting for this! Very helpful thanks!!
Woohoo! So glad it helped :D
That is the best way to record drums. Your a legend!
You rule. You made this super easy!
Great video! This was super informative and helpful. I just went thru learning this process a few months back to use for a full band. It’s honestly so much easier than I ever would’ve thought. Make sure you have all tracks record enabled or you’ll be bummed if you’re trying to catch stuff live :)
So glad to hear it was helpful! I know it's a long video and a bit dull at times - but if it's useful and you learned something, that's what counts! Best of luck to you.
great video thanks Jackie
Fabulous, thank you!
You legend! Thankyou!!!!
really great and easy video to follow along
That's what I like to hear :D
Thank you for sharing! Very helpful!
Just found this video because I am looking on how to use garageband tutorials. Very nicely done. I am going to be coming back and pay a lot more attention due to the fact I have a New Mac Mini (upgraded) coming in a couple weeks and will be hooking my Tascam Model 16 into it with 8 Drum mics (Pearl Studio Session Select) along with a few more inputs for optional instruments (Bass & Lead Guitars along with a keyboard). P.S. Exceptional job on the Drums. See you Later, Ward L.
Awesome video this was very helpful to me Thx 🙏🏾 Great Drumming
Do u by any chance have a video on how to connect everything to ur interface ? Lol
Just found these videos. Thank you so much for the detailed tutorial. I just have one question for this part. If I want to add a click for me to hear, where would I place that??
very cool, thanks for the help!
really helpful, thanks a lot'
Awesome video, very informative. I was going to purchase the focusrite, but after watching your video I think I am going to get the tascam it seems very user friendly.
Very helpful video👍🏻
Hello I’m having some trouble getting my tascam 16/08 to recognize my snare mic on channel 2 but all other lines 1,3,4,5,6 are working just fine any advice thanks
Why does my music audio from Apple Music and Spotify sound horrible when I use it in garage band via line input?
what kind of cable are you using? is there an adapter on it?
As for covers, how am I putting in the song with my drumbeat? I get how to get my drums in garageband but what about the song audio? This has to do with the channel 10 and Spotify inforight?, but how do you listen/play to it while it simultaneously records? Still confused by it... im a slow learner🔥
question, so I did everything in the video, but for some reason, I can only hear one mic at a time. I’ll click one of the tracks, and i’ll only hear the sound from that mic, and not all of them. Thanks
This is it helps on my garageband
How do you get every drum input? Cause my mixer only shows as a output not several inputs. I have a red and white cable connected to my mac on both r sides. I’m so confused I’m new to this so yeah 😅
Much appreciated
I tried to find the interface and mics on Amazon but it says they’re no longer available! Is there another way to get those things??
Hi this is just what I’ve been looking for. Do you think I could use my iPad Pro instead of a MacBook ?
No, probably not.
Hi Jackie, how do you output from your Mixer to the (Ipad, Mac Book, or Mac) ? If I have electronic drums (Alesis DM10) can I run a lead from the drum module direct into the Ipad?
Yes. For example my electronic kit just goes USBC straight to my MacBook. That will carry a midi signal though so keep that in mind. There are great TH-cam videos on this topic that will explain better than me! But also not sure about recording to an iPad. Never done it.
I have a question I bought some drumming samples and I’m trying to put them in GarageBand and I don’t know how lol 😂 please I need your help I have some samples like how you triggered your kick how did you put the trigger in there?
dumb question time! I currently use PC and presonus, and this same Tascam. I record with people from all over. What they do is send me an audio track of their song, usually guitars/bass and then I add my drum part. I do this in Studio One by just adding a input track, and dragging/droppoing the WAV file they send me into it. Does it work the same way with garageband?
Can anybody clarify input 10? I’m trying to get music to play through my ears but it’s only coming out the computer. Thanks in advance
Hi, Jackie, can you tell me how much RAM your Macbook has? 8GB...16GB??
Do you have to buy a mic for every drumb and cymbal? Or how is that set up?
Would you be able to make a video over how the tascam settings effect GarageBand? Do I mess with the DAW first or mess with the Tuscan first. These questions might seem confusing because I am asking them away from the kit to try and get prepared when I get back home to the drums lol. My next question would be if I plug headphones in the Mac, am I hearing the interface and the DAW or just the DAW
How did you setup trigger 2 with GarageBand?
Hi Jackie, its about time someone put together a video like this! Nice job! Question for you: Can u recommend an interface that won't break the bank? For drums you probably need 6-8 good mic pre's, correct?
I’m also looking for one, I’m gonna check Amazon
Look around Amazon, I saw a few that were around $70 but go uigher
Did you ever find a pretty good interface?
Hi this was so helpful thank you! I’m helping my son record for drum covers. One question is when I put my headphone directly in my Mac Pro, I can’t here the beats from the interface? I can hear the ticking but not the mics? What am I doing wrong🤷♀️
i’m pretty sure it’s not something that you fix through garage band. I had the same problem a couple of months ago, and if I remember correctly, you just change the output in the sound settings on your mac, it’s nothing with GarageBand.
Turn your monitoring on
Can you discuss getting the appropriate levels for each drum, and overhead please?
Question about condenser overhead microphones... I'm completely new to everything and I know the overheads are condenser mics. Can GarageBand send the power through my interface? I'm using a Behinger XR18 which have no buttons or sliders. So not sure how to send power so I can run my overheads
Yes you should be able to plug in the mics and then connect the mixer to your pc or Mac. Your nice don’t need power. The mixer does need power via usb to computer.
Great advice.. Thank you.👍👍
Any tips on using GarageBand on a iPhone with say 2 mic’s?
One overhead and one in kick?
Ive never used GarageBand on the iPhone.
I use GarageBand for my voice-overs a lot and never understood how using audio interface on GarageBand now you taught me more on how it works
Can we do this on ipad?
Thank you
At around 5:15 in this video you talk about putting your in-ears into your laptop instead of the interface due to being able to mix live and hear what's happening in real time. I have the same interface and am new to recording. Is it not possible to mix live and hear what is happening through the interface with in-ears? Thanks!
Yes you can do that but any presets/fx in GarageBand will not apply. If you plug straight into the interface you’re getting a raw mix. Which is ok!
Great video and just what I was looking for. I’m using a focusrite and can’t get GarageBand to hear/record my iPhone plugged in the same way you did. Won’t seem to read it :/ Any tips on how you got that backing/play along track to work?
I’m having the same problem with the Tascam interface - the backing track/song that I’m playing from my phone (Spotify) sounds awful! Please let me know if you figured out how to fix it. Thx
For those doing it the easy way using edrums into GB ios like me, and using the module sounds instead of the GB kits (Yugh), if you're playing along to MIDI native GB instruments, you'll find that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to have perfect timing through the whole song, so I literally play one bar perfectly and copy and paste that bar, the same goes for the rolls.
Unfortunately, quantising is only available for the GB kits, hence the reason I do it like this.
How do you incorporate the metronome into the track you're playing with?
Hey im running into an issue. So i followed all the steps but when i press record all the channels are recording the same exact thing. They arent recording separately even though i made channels for all of them. Do you may know the reason why ?
It means you haven’t assigned the channels correctly.
Review the video again starting with the step at 3:00
Is there a point when you have to merge the tracks, or does it do so automatically? Is the "Master" being saved, and all tracks being merged? Thanks!
Yes at the end, you can go up to Share>Export Song To Disk and you can choose to save it as an MP3
Hi Jackie. How is your audio interface connected to your PC/DAW. What cable runs from your interface to your Macbook? Thank you in advance.
It’s basically a printer cable. But USB into the computer. In my case because it’s a Mac I needed a USB to USBC adapter.
@@jackiecas1 Thank you. This is helpful. More power to you and your channel.
What cables are you using for channel 10? By the way, Great Video 👍
I think channel 10 was the audio track for the music. It would be a lightning adapter that plugs into 1/8” cable to a 1/4” adapter that plugs into the interface.
You can create an multi track device on your MAC audio midi so you can listen to your play back from your iTunes while drumming.
@@bolhico how do you do this?
great video! do you know if it is possible to turn up and down some parts of the kit with garageband? (for example aplify the kick drum and low the cymbals?)
Yes absolutely. Use controls on the interface or within GarageBand.
I have one question I'm having trouble I seen that you said to unplug the Jack from the interface headphone input and put it into the computer where you can hear all the separate tracks at the same time but I'm not getting any sound everything is enabled and it's only working one track at a time whenever it's in the headphone jack of the interface only. How do I trouble shoot this? I have a new macbook pro 2 M3 15 inch with the same tascam interface
Headphones go into the computer and not the interface. Then set your output in GarageBand to be your computers headphone/jack audio.
@@jackiecas1 okay thank you I did that still no sound, but I'll double check it.
@@AdamDobbs-j5kare you getting signal into GarageBand? Getting sound from your mics at all? Trying to figure out what the issue could be.
It won't use but one track at a time as far as like when you enable the monitor button on the tracks
@@AdamDobbs-j5k do you have the record enable buttons active and selected?
I have 2 questions
1) whenever i eq or do something to track it automatically changes alle the tracks to that eq although I selected only 1. How can i fix this?
2) his there a way to safe eq settings so i dont need to mix my drums every time i record?
I’d have to see screenshots or video to help you further. Feel free to DM me on Instagram @jackiecas1 thanks!
That's the best way to do it
You mention plugging your in-ears directly into your laptop to hear the drums mixed in real time. I am new to recording and have the same interface. Is having hearing the drums mixed in real time through the interface not possible? Or another way to ask.. what is the difference between running the in-ears through the laptop vs. the interface. Thanks much!
Yes you can do either or! If you go direct from the interface you will be hearing a raw mix. If you plug into the computer to use the built in output from GarageBand you’ll be hearing any effects added into GarageBand.
@@jackiecas1 Thanks so much! Awesome and helpful info. Couple more things.. 1) Your videos are clear, cohesive, and very helpful! Keep it up. 2) The music track (a drumless youtube track) when pushed through the interface (I have the Tascam us16x08 too) is a lot thinner than when say I run it through my in-ears from my iphone. I can't hardly hear the bass guitar. Thoughts? 3) How do I in GarageBand duplicate a project without having to create 8+ tracks in a new project? That's super tedious. Thanks again for your help sister!
@@greghill8657 could be the type of 1/4” to 1/8” adapter you have. Make sure it’s stereo not mono.
@@greghill8657 I just created the project and saved it as “drumming template” for example, then when I record something, save it with a different name so you can always go back to opening “drumming template” as a blank slate.
@@jackiecas1 my in ears plug directly into my Mac. It’s 3.5mm. I’m guessing there’s a stereo/mono setting in GarageBand?
I just bought the tascam interface! Hoping it works well on my pc and don’t have to spend the money on a Mac rn
Any updates on how it's working ?
@@starchild692 it works ok. Ran the program but I couldn’t find a windows program I liked. I’m sure the are out there but I just decided to send it and buy the new M1 MacBook Air
Hi, what do you use for ear phones when you record?
I use in ear monitors from Ultiamte Ears.
I cant get all the track to light up. No sure way?
Damn 10 mics and a huge interface like this that’s a lot of money
Like I mentioned, you could do all of this with two overhead microphones instead!
Has anyone used a Behringer ADA8200 on GarageBand?
I’m still getting no sound from my drums.
It only lets me record 5 tracks at a time
I just need help making a simple video. I’m not this advanced yet 😩😞
Can you show how you tested the tracks in real time before you just skipped to playing
What do you mean by that?
@jackiecas1 Thanks for the brilliant and super simple tutorial for Garageband. My son is now recording his drums. Question: we are trying to use his i phone music tracks to play along to into his Beringer UMC 1820 interface (as per your video) however the sound quality into the interface and subsequently back into the monitor headphone socket is poor ( reverby/echoey/not clear) do you have this issue and if so, any answers for a solution greatly appreciated. Am in the uk on e mail: alex@alexgberry.com Many thanks Alex
Did you ever find an answer to this problem? I’m having exactly the same issue using the same Tascam interface in this video. The song that’s playing from my phone into the interface, into GarageBand sounds awful!!
@@ed-roberts the issue is that the feed from the I ozone was stereo and it was only picking up one of the channels. The options are to either to set the I phone to mono or buy a lead that goes from stereo to mono. Works fine now ... good luck
@@goodmorningsales thx so much for the reply!!! Switched my phone to mono and it worked great! Now if I could only figure out how to eq each of the drums, I change eq and they all still sound the same, kick drum sounds awful. Oh well, I’ll keep at it. Thanks again 👍
Would be a lot better if you slowed down a bit. Its like you on speed. Wtf
Listen faster then!
Does it not come out as mixed into the interface ?
Find an interface do you use you didn’t explain about your equipment come on I need to know how you do all this plug it in records everything