GarageBand User Guide
- Welcome
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- Play a lesson
- Choose the input source for your guitar
- Customise the lesson window
- See how well you played a lesson
- Measure your progress over time
- Slow down a lesson
- Change the mix of a lesson
- View full-page music notation
- View glossary topics
- Practise guitar chords
- Tune your guitar in a lesson
- Open lessons in the GarageBand window
- Get additional Learn to Play lessons
- If your lesson doesn’t finish downloading
- Touch Bar shortcuts
- Glossary
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Create a custom bass amp model in GarageBand on Mac
You can create your own bass amp model using the Amp and Cabinet pop-up menus, located at the bottom of the Bass Amp Designer window. After choosing an amp and cabinet, you can choose and place the microphone, use the bass amp controls and adjust bass amp effects to further customise the sound.
Note: After you create your own custom bass amp model, you can save it as a custom patch in the Library.
Choose a bass amplifier
Choose an amplifier that provides the tone you want. For brief descriptions of each amplifier, see Choose a bass amp model in GarageBand on Mac.
Choose a bass cabinet
The cabinet you choose from the Cabinet pop-up menu can have a big impact on the character of a bass guitar sound. Certain amplifier and cabinet pairings have been popular for decades, but you can try new combinations to create fresh-sounding tones. Bass Amp Designer lets you choose a classic pairing, or experiment with different amplifier and cabinet combinations.
Choose a speaker cabinet to use with the current amplifier.
Modern Cabinet 15": Features a 15-inch speaker, closed-back design. Very deep and full tone.
Modern Cabinet 10": Features a 10-inch speaker, closed-back design. A punchy tone.
Modern Cabinet 6": Features a 6-inch speaker, closed-back design.
Classic Cabinet 8x10": Features eight 10-inch speakers, closed-back design.
Flip Top Cabinet 1x15": Features a 15-inch speaker, closed-back design.
Modern 3 Way: Features 15-inch, 10-inch and 6-inch speakers. You can move the microphone vertically and can position it 20, 30 or 40cm away from the cabinet.
Direct (PowerAmp Out): Provides a direct signal from the power stage of the emulated amplifier, with the cabinet and microphone removed from the signal path.
Direct (PreAmp Out): Provides a direct signal from the pre-amplifier stage of the emulated amplifier, with the cabinet, microphone and power amp removed from the signal path.