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
- Copyright
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Intro to amps and pedals in GarageBand on Mac
GarageBand includes a variety of amp models that simulate the sounds of famous guitar and bass amplifiers. When you create an audio track for electric guitar or bass, you can choose patches with an amp model and one or more stompbox pedal effects. Don’t be afraid to use amp simulations and pedal effects with other sounds, such as vocals, drums, electric pianos and other instruments. The results may surprise you and can lead to new musical ideas.
To further customise your sound, you can open the Amp Designer, Bass Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins, and have full access to amp and pedalboard controls. Using Amp Designer or Bass Amp Designer, you can choose an amp model, adjust the amp controls, and choose different cabinets and microphones to customise the sound. Using Pedalboard, you can add and reorder pedal effects, adjust effect settings and customise pedal routing.
You can open the Amp Designer, Bass Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins in the Smart Controls pane.
For information about using Amp Designer, see Intro to Amp Designer in GarageBand on Mac.
For information about using Bass Amp Designer, see Intro to Bass Amp Designer in GarageBand on Mac.
For information about using Pedalboard effects, see Intro to Pedalboard in GarageBand on Mac.