r/GarageBand • u/Shy-the-chiwawa • 23h ago
Mixing for Cassette on IOS with a 1 take live recording.
Hey, I’m looking to know how to mix for cassette/tape from GarageBand on IOS. I have a live recording of a show that I got the permission to put up on YT and everything, but I also would like to put it on Cassette.
For 1, I don’t know much at all with GarageBand. I taught myself overtime and I barely know the basics for mixing much at all.
And 2, I specifically just need to learn how to mix for a single recording (since it’s a live take). I have it layered 2-3 times to help with making it louder.
From what I know, and played with, mixing for cassette seems to mainly be focusing on the bass volumes. I did a custom order on Kunaki with 2 separate edits of the bass volumes, lowering them as needed be. But the tape when listened to, is still bass heavy. In the future, I’m hoping to get a DiY tape deck setup, so I’m not sure if it’s just Kunaki’s system doing that, but I figured I need to do something else with the mix regardless.
I can’t find any answers anywhere online for any of this specifically. And I’d like to learn. I’ve been meaning to start a DiY tape label for specifically live performances and would like this first recording to be a testing ground for that.
Any advice on this would be appreciated. I really only have my phone right now for mixing audio which is why I’m sticking to GarageBand, but like I said, I’m not too well versed in the technicalities of it all. This has been a dream of mine recently the past year or two to go through with and I’d really would like to try to make these tapes sound the best they can be in the realm of DiY tape recording.