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Use the Master track

Use the Master track - GarageBand Tutorial

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Use the Master track

- Once you set all the levels, panning, and effects for your individual tracks, you're going to want to take some time to work with your songs master track. The master track allows you to work with the overall volume, effects, and sound of the song as a whole. Think of the master track as the track through which all the other sounds from all the other tracks go through before hitting your speakers. So basically, anything you do to the master track affects the sound of the final mix. This is basically a chance to give your song one last coat of polish before sending it off into the world. To view the master track, we can go to the track menu and choose show master track. The master track appears at the bottom of all the other tracks. And that's it's permanent position, it can't be moved around like you can do with the regular tracks. Now the master track looks like the other tracks, but notice that doesn't have…

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