Garageband Auto adjusting levels during recording.

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Garageband Auto adjusting levels during recording.

Hey, I'm brand new to garageband, so I'm just getting the hang of things. I was messing around with recording a live piano through the internal mic on my Macbook Pro, and I noticed that for the first few seconds of a recording, it will pick up the reverb from pedaling the notes just fine, but then shortly after, it drops out so that is seems as if I'm not using the pedal at all. I don't have auto adjust on and I am not using any effects, and I can't for the life of me figure out why it is doing this.

Any help?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1), College Laptop

Posted on Nov 11, 2009 8:16 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 11, 2009 3:27 PM in response to AndoSkei

Since the piano pedal has nothing to do with the volume, only with the sustain of notes, your problem cannot have anything to do with the level control. And since you are recording through the microphone, the sustain can't go away magically. If there is no sustain on your recording, you didn't play with sustain in the first place.

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Nov 11, 2009 11:16 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

That's...not true.

The piano pedal does have to do with volume. If I hold down the sustain continually the notes will build on each other, keeping the volume consistently loud rather than dropping off after each strike. So the problem could be a level control, a consistently loud uniform noise sounds like something that would trigger an automatic adjustment. My guess was that it is something to do with the Macbook pro's built-in mic having some sort of auto adjust for feedback, but I have been unable to find any way of checking if this is true.

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Nov 11, 2009 11:20 PM in response to Christoph Drösser

And there we go. In system preferences under sound settings, there is a setting to reduce ambient noises. Unchecking it did the trick.

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