Recently purchased an Ipad and a focusrite itrack solo to start recording. I have headphones but yet to get monitors or a microphone. Progress is a bit slow, I’m using garageband which is fine but I find some things a tad annoying and I’m wondering if I should persevere with it or try alternatives, such as cubasis 2 (expensive but looks impressive, but perhaps to complicated for the novice?). Also the various options a for modelling, Bias Fx and amplitude etc, which do you prefer?
What is your ipad set up, what daw and fx are you using?
Any advice for a recording newbie?
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Garageband is great. There are better equivalents out there. Get a laptop/pc and Focusrite audio/sound card. Reaper for your daw and you are good to go
Garageband is about as simple as DAWs come and ipad DAWs are even more simplified.. Persevere and it will come. I truly think that the DAW makes little difference when you're starting out. Just learn whichever one you have and make music! When you're competent enough, you'll be able to assess for yourself if you want to switch DAWs for the different featureset.
As for amp modelling, I've never been satisfied with software solutions as I could never get the latency low enough and it trips me up when recording. I use hardware amp modelling, specifically amplifire..
What specific problems are you facing?
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Good advice, thanks. I'm going to persevere with Garageband. Since last night I’ve watched a great tutorial which has really opened my eyes to how it works. I’ve put the guitar down and used the on board keys, drums and bass to make a simple 8 bars. The quantize feature to tidy it up is a big revelation . The next stage is to come up with different parts to the song, this is where I usually struggle to get beyond the initial first few bars.
Must be more fretboarders out there recording with an ipad?
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Here is Dan Baker recording a song using only the built in mic on the i pad, sounds pretty good to me, he also has a video showing him making a 32 track recording using garageband on his iphone.
Use what you have already and if you find your outgrowing the features offered with garageband then that will be the time to spend more, for now just get recording and have some fun.
Its the talent you have at your disposal not the gear that matters, i have most of the daws available on IOS and i sound shit on all of them but that isn't down to the daw
this is the video showing him actually recording it sorry, the first one is more about using the included eq etc to polish the recording a little
just the ipad mic as well. Like I say I just use it to demo
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On iPad, I’ve never gotten on with Garage Band, still feels like a toy with the virtual instruments.
Cubasis is brilliant, not too big a learning curve (some great YouTube tutorials that’ll get you up and running in no time) and I’ve not found it restrictive for my noodlings.
I did this solely on iPad with cubasis, guitars are recorded the old fashioned way with a mic in front of pedals and amp all at neighbour friendly volumes.
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Thanks all for the advice and (really) excellent examples of your recordings. I just need to crack on with garageband for now. There is much more to GB than I thought and I can now see the possibilities. What I need to do is get on with it to produce a whole song, any song, bad or good, and stop being too fussy and self critical, which is holding me back. Listening back to myself is magnifying weaknesses and mistakes and certainly shows areas in need of improvement, i.e. timing!