Anyone know GarageBand well?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Moore on December 26, 2011 at 2:08pm

Hi Terry, I've never used Garage Band, but I am using Logic Express. When you said '2/3rds speed' I immediately thought of recording bit rates ie. 16bit and 24 bit - 16 is 2/3rds of 24, and I know playback at wrong bitrate can produce a tempo difference. I had a quick look on internet for Zoom H2 (I don't know the unit) and after a quick look saw that you can record at different bit rates with it.

So... maybe the problem is somewhere around the bit rate settings? - this is just a thought.

Permalink Reply by Terry Angelli on December 26, 2011 at 2:26pm

Chris,

Great thought but that doesn't explain why, when I took the same recording into Audacity, it played fine! And I'd previously brought recordings into GB at the same bit rate setting. That leads me to think that perhaps I have accidentaly changed a setting but I've no clue where or what! Thanks for the reply.

Permalink Reply by Chris Moore on December 26, 2011 at 2:38pm

Hi Terry, just had a look at Garage band spec and it only supports 44.1khz sample rate. I think most likely that the sample rate setting in your Zoom H2 has been changed somehow.

I think Audacity accepts various sample rates so that's why the problem wouldn't be apparent.

Permalink Reply by Chris Moore on December 26, 2011 at 2:28pm

...just re-edited my reply, but it diodn't save.

It's the Sample rate frequency setting that affects the playback speed, not the bitrate. ie the kHz setting.

Permalink Reply by Terry Angelli on December 26, 2011 at 3:32pm

Chris,

Now that is a likelyhood. I did change my H2 format setting from Mp3 to WAV a while ago. The H2 allows you to split tracks within the device IF it is WAV format. I only discovered this because I wanted to seperate the tracks to tweak the two differently and when I attempetd to I couldn't. So I read the manual and it stated that the split function is only in the WAV format. So I did change it and never changed it back. Unfortunately life gets in the way of these persuits and I totally forgot about the setting. Anyway I'll have to look at which bit rate I selected.

Speaking of bit rates, there are quite a few for both Mp3 & WAV files to choose from on the H2 but none are recommeded in the manual. Any suggestions which should be used?

Thanks for your sage advice!

Permalink Reply by Chris Moore on December 26, 2011 at 4:27pm

Hi Terry,

If you are going for very best quality recordings then record in WAV format 44.1kHz 24 bit. OR

if you want to save a bit of memory use 44.1kHz 16bit - quality will still be very good.

If you are going for lower quality to save a lot on memory space then record in mp3 format.

Any mp3 settings, I think, will be compatible with G Band.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Chris

Permalink Reply by Terry Angelli on December 28, 2011 at 6:18pm

Chris,

Thanks for the recommended settings! WAV is the way to go for sure and you were correct with the bit rate. The imported recording was at 48.0kHz which caused the sound to change in BF.