Logic Studio vs. GarageBand for home recording?

Since you obviously haven't reached the limits of Garageband yet (otherwise you'd know that it can do compression, EQing and a lot more) I would recommend you stay away from Logic for a while. When you've definitely found something that you want to do and just can't, then reconsider Logic, but maybe rather Logic Express and not Studio.

Cheers,

Jazz

Spend some time with garageband. You should be able to figure out if it has what you need in a matter of minutes.

In my humble opinion, Garage band is a stripped down version of Logic Pro, but can perform basic operations like post production EQ and Compression. You may not need to spend the extra cash to achieve your goal. Try searching youtube for tips, tricks, and tutorials.

Good Luck

Garageband all the way...until one day you say to yourself, "Dang, I wish I could do that and there's just no way to make GB do it."

(Even then, you can probably figure out how to make it happen)

I record and mix mostly a 5 piece rock band and I'm in GB alot to do stuff. It's perfectly capable. In many instances, preferable so, because it's simple.

For rock band mixing, simple is good. Less is more when it comes to mixing overall. I know as consumers we're conditioned to think otherwise, but it's really true.

(There's a reason the phrase "subtractive EQ" is a common term)

You don't need Logic to record a vocal and guitar. That's like buying an master chef's culinary set in order to spread butter on a piece of toast.

Also, if you find you'd like to try some other compression and EQ tools than what come with GB, although I find them perfectly acceptable, you can buy those plug-ins and easily use 'em. I have about 12 supplemental PSPaudioware audio plugs that I use as well.

I like Logic a lot, don't get me wrong, but since there are 5 members in the band I work with all swapping demo work around, it was just much easier, pragmatic, and more affordable, to get everyone setup with GB for doing individual tracking and such on their own time.

That's why I keep using it. And, as I say, it's a perfectly useable tool, especially because of its simplicity.

In many ways it's much more preferable to Logic because of that.

BTW, it's much more valuable to buy a few good books, follow some video tutorials, and honestly try hard to get some edumacation about the art than to spend money of software.

Put it this way, you have more "gear" capability in your Mac and GB than the Beatles did when they were recording their albums.

fuzzynormal wrote:
Put it this way, you have more "gear" capability in your Mac and GB than the Beatles did when they were recording their albums.

Good perspective...

To the O.P. GB is based on a subset of Logic, the EQ and Compression are quite decent. Besides the GB effects you will also have over 16 Apple AU effects to use as inserts. Included is a parametric EQ, a Matrix Reverb, a Dynamics Processor, many with advanced settings available.

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