Incredible music.
In the key of easy.

GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio right inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and an incredible selection of session drummers and percussionists. With Touch Bar features for MacBook Pro and an intuitive, modern design, it’s easy to learn, play, record, create, and share your hits worldwide. Now you’re ready to make music like a pro.

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Start making professional‑sounding music right away. Plug in your guitar or mic and choose from a jaw‑dropping array of realistic amps and effects. You can even create astonishingly human‑sounding drum tracks and become inspired by thousands of loops from popular genres like EDM, Hip Hop, Indie, and more.

More sounds, more inspiration.
Plug in your USB keyboard and dive into the completely inspiring and expanded Sound Library, featuring electronic‑based music styles like EDM and Hip Hop. The built‑in set of instruments and loops gives you plenty of creative freedom.

The Touch Bar takes center stage.
The Touch Bar on MacBook Pro puts a range of instruments at your fingertips. Use Performance view to turn the Touch Bar into drum pads or a one-octave keyboard for playing and recording.

Plug it in. Tear it up.
Plug in your guitar and choose from a van-load of amps, cabinets, and stompboxes.

Design your dream bass rig.
Customize your bass tone just the way you want it. Mix and match vintage or modern amps and speaker cabinets. You can even choose and position different microphones to create your signature sound.

Drumroll please.
GarageBand features Drummer, a virtual session drummer that takes your direction and plays along with your song. Choose from 28 drummers and three percussionists in six genres.

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Shape your sound. Quickly and easily.
Whenever you’re using a software instrument, amp, or effect, Smart Controls appear with the perfect set of knobs, buttons, and sliders. So you can shape your sound quickly with onscreen controls or by using the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro.

Look, Mom — no wires.
You can wirelessly control GarageBand right from your iPad with the Logic Remote app. Play any software instrument, shape your sound with Smart Controls, and even hit Stop, Start, and Record from across the room.

Drummer, the virtual session player created using the industry’s top session drummers and recording engineers, features 28 beat‑making drummers and three percussionists. From EDM, Dubstep, and Hip Hop to Latin, Metal, and Blues, whatever beat your song needs, there’s an incredible selection of musicians to play it.

Each drummer has a signature kit that lets you produce a variety of groove and fill combinations. Use the intuitive controls to enable and disable individual sounds while you create a beat with kick, snare, cymbals, and all the cowbell you want. If you need a little inspiration, Drummer Loops gives you a diverse collection of prerecorded acoustic and electronic loops that can be easily customized and added to your song.

Audition a drummer for a taste of his or her distinct style.

Get creative with 100 EDM- and Hip Hop–inspired synth sounds. Every synth features the Transform Pad Smart Control, so you can morph and tweak sounds to your liking.

Sweeping Arp

Droplets

Bright Punchy Synth

Pumping Synth Waves

Epic Hook Synth

Learn to play Welcome to the school of rock. And blues. And classical.

Get started with a great collection of built‑in lessons for piano and guitar. Or learn some Multi‑Platinum hits from the actual artists who recorded them. You can even get instant feedback on your playing to help hone your skills.

Take your skills to the next level. From any level.
Choose from 40 different genre‑based lessons, including classical, blues, rock, and pop. Video demos and animated instruments keep things fun and easy to follow.

Teachers with advanced degrees in hit‑making.
Learn your favorite songs on guitar or piano with a little help from the original recording artists themselves. Who better to show you how it’s done?

Instant feedback.
Play along with any lesson, and GarageBand will listen in real time and tell you how you’re doing, note for note. Track your progress, beat your best scores, and improve your skills.

Tons of helpful recording and editing features make GarageBand as powerful as it is easy to use. Edit your performances right down to the note and decibel. Fix rhythm issues with a click. Finesse your sound with audio effect plug‑ins. And finish your track like a pro, with effects such as compression and visual EQ.

Go from start to finish. And then some.
Create and mix up to 255 audio tracks. Easily name and reorder your song sections to find the best structure. Then polish it off with all the essentials, including reverb, visual EQ, volume levels, and stereo panning.

Take your best take.
Record as many takes as you like. You can even loop a section and play several passes in a row. GarageBand saves them all in a multi‑take region, so it’s easy to pick the winners.

Your timing is perfect. Even when it isn’t.
Played a few notes out of time? Simply use Flex Time to drag them into place. You can also select one track as your Groove Track and make the others fall in line for a super‑tight rhythm.

Polish your performance.
Capture your changes in real time by adjusting any of your software instruments’ Smart Controls while recording a performance. You can also fine‑tune your music later in the Piano Roll Editor.

Touch Bar. A whole track at your fingertips.
The Touch Bar on MacBook Pro lets you quickly move around a project by dragging your finger across a visual overview of the track.

Wherever you are, iCloud makes it easy to work on a GarageBand song. You can add tracks to your GarageBand for Mac song using your iPhone or iPad when you’re on the road. Or when inspiration strikes, you can start sketching a new song idea on your iOS device, then import it to your Mac to take it even further.

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Play, record, arrange, and mix — wherever you go.

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GarageBand for Mac

Your personal music creation studio.

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Sound City Studios is a recording studio opened in 1969 in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It was the subject of a 2013 documentary Sound City directed by Dave Grohl.

The facility had previously been a production factory of the English musical instrument manufacturer Vox. Sound City was known for its signature sound, especially in recording drums and live performances of rock bands. More than 100 gold and platinum albums have been recorded there.^[1][2] The studio was privately held from 1970 until it closed its commercial studio services in May 2011, reserved for a single tenant from 2011 until 2016^[3] before it was reopened in early 2017.^[4]

History[edit]

The studio was created by Joe Gottfried and Tom Skeeter, who wanted to start a record company and get into artist management. After a rough start, Skeeter purchased ^[5][6][7] a state-of-the-art recording console for $75,175 from the English electronics engineerRupert Neve:^[8] 'One of four in the world ... a 28-input, 16-bus, 24-monitor 8028 with 1085 EQs and no automation'.^[7][9]

The first song recorded on the console was performed by Stevie Nicks and led to an invitation to join Fleetwood Mac.

During 1969, Sound City hosted the David Briggs productions Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit and After the Gold Rush by Neil Young. Cult leader Charles Manson recorded in Studio B months before the Manson Family crime spree.

In the 1970s, Neil Young, Dr. John, Spirit, Crazy Horse, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, along with other bands, recorded music at the studio. Shelter Records founders Leon Russell and Denny Cordell found a home at Sound City as well, recording Leon Russell, Delaney & Bonnie, and Joe Cocker. Thanks to the Shelter founders, Sound City hosted a young band from Florida named Mudcrutch in 1974, providing an introduction to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that resulted in a relationship spanning over two decades.

In 1976, Fleetwood Mac recorded one track at the studio, 'Never Going Back Again', from what would become one of the highest selling and most critically acclaimed albums of all time, Rumours.^[10][11][12]

During the 1980s and 1990s, the studio was used to produce works from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Rick Springfield, Ronnie James Dio, Foreigner, The Black Crowes, and Nirvana. Producer Rick Rubin chose Sound City Studios to record artists like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Johnny Cash (1996's Unchained). He also recorded Metallica's Death Magnetic, which entered the Billboard Top 200 chart at No. 1, at the studio.^[13][14]

Joe Gottfried died in 1992, at the age of 65. Tom Skeeter died on 12 September 2014, at the age of 82.^[15] The studio was closed to the public in 2011 and much of the equipment sold off, including the Neve Electronics 8028 Console from Studio A which was purchased by Dave Grohl, former Nirvana drummer and current frontman of Foo Fighters, who installed it in his Studio 606 in Northridge, California.^[16]

In 2011, record label Fairfax Recording leased Studio A for exclusive use of its artists^[17] While the studio was left untouched, the control room was refurbished and analog recording equirment even older then the Neve console was added including an ARP 2600 modular analog synthesizer, a Wurlitzer 140B electric piano and EQ modules designed for the Columbia CBS Studios in New York. Artists such as the Cold War Kids, and The Lumineers recorded at the facility during the Fairfax years.

In early 2017 a partnership was formed between Sandy Skeeter, daughter of founder Tom Skeeter, and Olivier Chastan in order to reopen the studio. Sound City is now the home of two of just 11 surviving Helios Type 69 consoles^[18] and continues to use classic analog recording techniques in many of its productions. While the control rooms received some upgrades, including a Pro Tools, the main studio remains exactly as it was built in 1969^[19]

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Sound[edit]

Sound City Studios prides itself on having a very particular sound when it comes to recording drums.^{[20][1][8][21][22][23]}Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro insisted that one only had to set up the drums in order to get a good drum sound.^[24] Producer Rick Rubin said that 'guitars sound pretty much the same everywhere, but drums change from room to room, and the sound at Sound City was among the best'.^[2] Producer Greg Fidelman recorded the sound of a bass drum from each of the big recording studios in the Los Angeles area, subsequently playing the sample for Metallica without divulging from which studio the sound had originated. Based upon this sample, the band chose Sound City Studios to record Death Magnetic.^[24] In addition, when asked by Nine Inch Nails to be a guest drummer on some songs, Dave Grohl agreed only if the songs were to be recorded at Sound City Studios.^[24] The interior of the main studio has allegedly never been painted over, nor its linoleum tiles changed, due to fear that any such change would directly affect the 'legendary sound quality' of the room.^[9]

Discography[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abCoffey, Padraic (8 March 2013). 'Sound City: Classic rock fans will find much to admire'. filmjamblog. Retrieved 9 June 2013. Sound City Studios was host to a plethora of talents, recording over 100 certified gold and platinum albums, before its closure in 2011. [...] The studio's incomparable reputation for quality percussion sound is tested in a brief high-energy montage of Grohl, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and other players behind the skins.
2. ^ ^abTuran, Kenneth (31 January 2013). 'Movie review: 'Sound City' is homage to recording studio equipment'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
3. ^http://fairfaxrecordings.com
4. ^'Sound City Studios'. Sound City Studios. Sound City Studios. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
5. ^Florino, Rick (29 January 2013). ''Sound City' Movie Review — 5 out of 5 stars'. Santa Monica, California: Artistdirect. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
6. ^Mervis, Scott (26 April 2013). 'Movie Review: 'Sound City' captures heyday of a legendary LA music studio'. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
7. ^ ^abFilbin, Patrick (9 April 2013). 'Rock Docs: Sound City (2013)'. Buzz Weekly. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
8. ^ ^abDeming, Mark (1 February 2013). 'Sound City (2013) - Review - AllMovie'. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
9. ^ ^abScoppa, Bud (1 March 2009). 'L.A. Grapevine, March 2009'. Mix. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
10. ^Q staff (May 1997). 'The recording of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (February 1976 - February 1977)'. Q (128). Retrieved 8 April 2018.
11. ^Staff (19 September 1997). '100 Best Albums Ever'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 April 2018 – via Discogs.
12. ^McLaughlin, Katie (27 June 2012). 'Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' at 35: Still the 'perfect album''. CNN. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
13. ^'Metallica | Chart History. Billboard 200'. Billboard. Eldridge Industries. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
14. ^'Dead Magnetic - Metallica. Awards'. Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2013.Cite uses deprecated parameter |dead-url= (help)
15. ^Doc Rock. 'The Dead Rock Stars Club : 2014 July to December'. Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
16. ^Hutchinson, Charles (21 May 2019). 'Blues godfather John Mayall to play York Barbican'. The Press (York). Retrieved 27 May 2019.
17. ^Bieger, Hannes (January 2017). 'Fairfax Recording, California'. Sound on Sound. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
18. ^Ramsey, Colby. 'Studio Profile: Sound City Studios'. Audio Media International. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
19. ^'Sound City Studios'. The Audio Hunt. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
20. ^Sound City Drum Sound on YouTube.
21. ^Scherstuhl, Alan (30 January 2013). 'Dave Grohl and Other Rockers Toast L.A.'s Sound City'. The Village Voice. New York City. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
22. ^Wren, Alec (11 March 2013). 'Sound City Documentary – Review'. harmonicjunction.com. Retrieved 9 June 2013. Coupled with the console was the large live room, a room that defied its undesirable acoustical sizing and characteristics to generate drum tracks that would redefine rock music.
23. ^Murphy, Ronan Chris (6 April 2009). 'Sound City Studios Documentary. Neil Young to Metallica to Kyuss to Tom Petty to Nirvana'. ronansrecordingshow.com. Retrieved 9 June 2013. This place is heaven for analog recording gear fanatics and has what some consider the best drum room in the world.
24. ^ ^abcFackenthall, Kent (19 July 2012). 'The Sound of Sound City Studios'. kentfackenthall.com. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
25. ^http://www.vidinfo.org/video/15044542/monstro-flora-between-the-stars-ep-release

External links[edit]

• Sound City Studios discography at Discogs
• Grohl: Neve console at the heart of the music on YouTube

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