Creating an Ambient Bass Sound With Just GarageBand Effects - Rob Allen Deep 4 Fretless Bass
This track uses only the effects that come preloaded with GarageBand to create a big, ambient bass sound. No external effects, apps, or AUv3s. While Garageband is easy to use, has great sounds and effects, and interacts well within the Apple ecosystem, it also has some maddening features. Particularly, once you hit the record button most of the effect controls are not usable, so you can’t do any real-time tweaking.
Regardless, that’s exactly what I did. I set up a bunch of modulation, delay, and reverb effects that are part of GarageBand to make a wide, expansive sound and stuck with that for the whole recording. I use the “clean“ direct vocal setting, which worked better than using one of GarageBand’s bass amp and pedal effects. This is just an improv using this ambient sound; playing live with no looping. Apologies for a few spots of dodgy intonation.
The bottom line is, yes, you can make a huge ambient sounds with GarageBand. And this would work with any instrument, not just the bass (in this case, my Rob Allen Deep 4 fretless).
Here’s the jam and setup that provided the basis for this track:
Signal chain: Rob Allen Deep 4 fretless bass—Universal Audio Vol 276 interface—iPad Pro (2022)
Produced on an iPad Pro
Written and recorded by Jonathan Block
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Some of the gear I use:
Apple iPad Pro 12.9”
Mellotron M4000D Mini
Roland Aerophone AE- 20 wind synth
Rob Allen Deep 4 fretless bass
Fender American Original 60s Precision bass
Universal Audio Volt 276 interface
Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 interface
apeSoft apeMatrix, iVCS3, Mood
Ruismaker Mononoke, Ripplemaker, Ruismaker Noir, Rozeta, Gauss Field Looper
IceGear Kronecker, Mersenne, Laplace
Fingerlabs Mellowsound
Klevgrand Hillman
Moog ModelD
BeepStreet Zeeon
Audio Damage Axon 02
AudioKit Synth One, Digital D1, AR-909 Drums, Digitalism 2000
Imaginando K7D
…and a whole lot more effects apps from Audio Damage, Ruismaker, Bleass, FAC, AudioThing and Eventide, among others
Thanks for watching!
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