This is the transcript of the 'Apple GarageBand recording your podcast' video.
Speaker 1:
Welcome to our short video that will help get you started making a great podcast using your iPad and the app GarageBand. Let's dive in and start exploring how easy this can be by touching and holding down the GarageBand app until the menu appears. Select Create new audio recording. This will launch GarageBand and navigate you straight to the audio recorder section within the sound browser. Ultimately, it is essential that you plan your podcast in advance. Using the app pages or notes is a great place to start gathering your ideas and thoughts for your recording. Alternatively, you have a notepad built into GarageBand that can also be of assistance. Tap on settings and select Notepad. These notes will be available for you to view while working on and recording your project.
There are many different ways and ideas for creating a podcast. Some simple suggestions could be, ask a question to a friend, interview yourself or another person, explain a topic using your knowledge and understanding, or demonstrate your creativity by narrating your own storybook. The opportunities are endless for your classroom. Now that you have planned out your podcast, you can start to record your voice. It's important to know where the inbuilt microphone is on the iPad. The microphone is located on the opposite side of the charging port. On the screen, you'll have two options, fun and studio. The fun section allows you to adjust and record your voice using different sounds and filters. Interviewing yourself as a robot could be a great way to use the fun section, however let's explore the studio section today. Tap Studio. Tap the microphone in the centre of the screen to be presented with a number of different microphone options and styles.
Choose Vocals. You can scroll through and explore the different presets, but I like the narrator microphone for a podcast. Tap Narrator and then tap Done. Before we make our recordings, we need to get ourselves ready. Firstly, find a quiet space to make your recordings. You can record your podcast in a couple of ways. You can use the inbuilt microphone, or connect to an external microphone through the lightning or the headphones port. It is always a good idea to test out and practise recording your voice before you make your official recording. When doing this, you can make some adjustments to the In slider on the left-hand side of the screen. I would suggest adjusting the handle so that when you are speaking, the green line reaches no more than halfway up to where the toggle has been positioned. This will adjust the sensitivity and static in the background of your recording, so it will be important to get this balance right.
We can now start to record our own voice. My first tip would be to turn off the metronome as you might find this distracting. To do this, ensure that the metronome icon is not blue by simply tapping upon it. Also, select the Settings cog in the top-right, then Metronome and Count-in, and then toggle Count-in to the off position. You might like to leave the Visual Count-in section on here so you know when to start speaking when you are recording. To make a recording, you can now tap the red record button. In this example, let's ask a question of a friend and then record their response.
Audio:
Hi, everyone, and welcome to my podcast. Today I'm with Ryan and I'm going to ask him some really tricky questions. Let's find out what he has to say. Hi, Ryan. Thanks for joining me. I'd like to find out why do you like using the iPad at school?
Ryan:
I love using my iPad because there's so many ways I can use it. I really love apps like GarageBand and Keynote because they help me be super creative. I love that when my teachers take us outside the classroom and we use the camera to take pictures and make videos about the things we're learning about in class, and this just seems to make school more fun and interesting.
Audio:
Thanks, Ryan. That's great.
Speaker 1:
Once you have created your recording, you can select Tracks to view your recording. Here, they will appear as long rectangular blocks. You can press play to hear what has been recorded also. If you don't like your recording, you can simply tap the undo icon and start again. This concludes our first video on using GarageBand to make a podcast and how to effectively record your masterpiece. Be certain to explore part two to delve deeper into the editing process and finalising your work.
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