How to NORMALIZE (increase) volume in GarageBand iOS (iPad/iPhone)

This what you did normalizes the audio and makes it more self-correct? Because I felt this difference, will this help make the music louder?

Couldnt u have just duplicated the other mic settings then slid them over?

too many steps for something as simple as normalizing.

is it a bug that it doesn’t record the wave form correctly? I’ve had some guitar recordings show the waveform bigger. but then other times it’s small like your video shows. Isn’t there a way to just fix it so it shows a bigger wave form in the first place?

Hey, FYI - I was having an issue with my input volume of my USB out on Blackstar being too low and Blackstars customer service provided this link to your video. You must be doing something right! Cheers

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when I record a guitar part with the slider all the way up the flashing green thingy barely registers and on the playback tracks screen even with volume maxed u can hardly hear the guitar. other tracks like drums and synth loops sound and play fine

I’m having issues with my line levels in all my songs and I’m pretty sure it has to do with this… so before any plug ins or mixing, each track must be individually normalized correct? Is that technically the gain staging process?

Can’t you just Dragged the Normalized Audio onto the Old Tuned Audio Instrument with all the plugins on it?

4 years later and this is still a problem 😢

How do we get it to record large from the beginning?

This was really great 👍 thank you for sharing 🙏

thank you so much, I’ve been trying to increase the volume of some audio files that I put with music and they were so quiet in comparison. this helped a TON!

How would you do this on Mac?

Thx for this. Just one question: why didn’t you duplicate the three tracks of guitars and voice which would copy the audio + fx and then merge them? Wouldn’t that save a lot of work?

So just curious, is the only reason not to merge the original track vs making a copy is so you can then apply any effects, otherwise if say you have a "clean" track to start with , or you're not concerned w any effects you may have been messing with , you could technically just merge that track and skip the copy/duplicate step, right? Awesome content btw! have watched several vids, great tips .... and nice tunes as well 👌

For those wondering how you can do the same but in your macs turn it first into a file then drag it back.

You can do that by going to the "Share" tab on top and then choosing "Export Song to Disk". It gives you choices for the file type so just choose one and after that press "Export". Once its done loading you'll find the file in your downloads then from there just drag it back to your recording :>

How do you do it on an imac

Ok, so just merge every single track and them put them together. Rally cool

Bro because of you and your entire channel alone…it turned my entire skill set upside down. I couldn’t have gotten this far without you. And your truly the only one that can get us to be on PAR with what your trying to get across to your viewers. Man thank you

I don’t really understand the merging part. merged with what?

thanks so much for making these videos from the kindness of your heart man. i appreciate how much work it must take for you to help complete strangers be better producers. you’re the man!

Isn’t there a way to copy or apply the same effects we used to the new wav track without manually doing it?

I can't merge in Garageband 2021.... There is no microphone icon next to my recording!

You can merge all the tracks to copy the merged track in another proyect and export with out saving more "outputs" in the original proyect?

Do you know why this could suddenly happen? I used to have big waves and then one day, using the exact same equipment, my waveforms where super tiny. I'm very frustrated but nevertheless your video helped a lot!

I learned more from this one video than in my entire life

Hey Pete. We’re purchasing an iMac. Will it still be necessary to merge a track to get a usable wave form? Thanks Dave

Pete Thanks a lot for this🖐🖐🖐 I search this long time🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

Hi Pete, i need you help please. The merge function on my ipad suddenly stopped working. I already used it in previous songs recording to normalize the volume, edit volume, use automation etc. For some reason recently, when i do the same process (merge) it only appears a straight line, no waveform & no sound at all. Hoping you’ll get to read this. Thanks in advance for your reply.

Ive noticed you don’t use panning much, is there a reason why or is that something you haven’t covered ? I personally love panning, maybe too much!

you're literally getting credited when my EP releases

You are the best! Amazing help

I didn’t look at what challenge this was. Then I recognized the voice. I still didn’t know the name of the channel, but I recognized this voice from a previous video..

Why can't you just copy and paste the normalised tracks back in the original tracks rather than re-creating all the settings?

Great Video, i dont know why the volume on my vocals goes lower when i merge them instead of going up. Im trying to find a way to increase the volume for uploading it to streaming platforms, i tried the FX EQ hack, rising the gain , but it dont really does much, would love to know more about using garageband IOS to meet streaming reproduction standards

I love your videos. I have a scarlet 3rd gen mic and the audio interface. And a pop filter. My vocals don’t sound right. There’s a basshumming in the background. How do I fix this and just have clean louder and more studio quality. Please help I just got everything set up and it doesn’t sound that great with the humming. How do I get clean vocals. And no bass humming. If you could help me it would mean so much thank you

how do i expand my vocals vertically so i can see my wav better to line up multiple vocal tracks and keep it on beat

Update: Found it. Just me being stupid. I should’ve tapped the track ICON, that one with the image of the instrument (same step as finding the ‘automation’ function). Thanks for the reply Pete.

Hey Pete, there's no more merge function on Garageband for ios now. How do we around this? Apply the compression, the export as a wave file, then import as a loop, before cutting it up?

You are a life saver🙂

Great tutorial, Pete! Wow!

Pete you are really good. I released two singles and now on the third, still coming back for GB iOS workarounds and methods and techniques. I pulled two disparate audio tracks of rhythm guitar together, and it came out way too loud, I think the fact one was low level and one high might have let ‘normalising’ run away with itself. Got a bit clever and tried a reverse thing with a bit, and there’s a slightly too-big size, ie overlap, so the reversed clip will not merely ‘slot in’ to the ‘main’ rhythm guitar track. I already had made a duplicate of one track because luckily they had the same effects exactly, and I deleted all the automation points in my empty track ready to take the merged combo track. With your insights, I’ll navigate through. So grateful to you my man! Take care with the global health thing presently oppressing everyone a bit. Keep safe and be equal everybody. And subscribe to Pete Johns’ channel if you could, he’s a lifesaver in this stuff. [EDIT...I let the default ‘audio recorder’ be used, and it comes in right a the bottom of the track view. Left that one on, instead of muting it, when I made a copy and pasted in my track that was empty but with correct effects. So, when played, TWO tracks were sounding off, which as you know, amplifies the volume hugely! Muted the ‘audio rec’ one now, all’s well].

Please, check out Maze Rider - Auto Leveling app on iOS. It can do the task simply.

Super thx to you! I was in trouble because guitar sound that I recorded by SM57 was toooooooo small.. But you saved me!

You teach everyone on mobile plz teach on mac i phone and mac garageband is completly diffriend !

Hi, pete, why dont i have merge menu in my garage band ?