![]() ![]() ![]() The ambient setting can also be used for the bass guitar, but more as a thickening agent, rather than as an effect.įor instance, if you find that the bass tone is a bit dry, you could increase the ambient setting by just 2-3 notches on the knob, and see what that does for the tone. Other Uses of the Ambience Setting Bass Guitar When used as a trio, a lot can be done to an instrument to make it sound a lot more interesting and fun, however, all of this pales in comparison to just buying better instruments like what Native Instruments includes as part of Komplete 13 (their site). How you want to set up these plug-ins depends on your own style and taste, so it’s up to you to experiment with each one individually.ĭelay is different from the reverb and ambiance controls because it actually controls the echo of the sound, rather than just the way the sound waves are crashing around in a specific type of room, like the way the reverb does. In my article on how to make Garageband instruments sound more professional, I explored how the use of these three plug-ins can actually improve the quality of your music by a significant margin, and I stand behind that point of view. You can check it out in the image below: Using Reverb, Delay, and Ambience Both guitars have the ambience setting adjusted to around 3 on the knob. Recently, I created a song using two different nylon string guitars, with one panned to the left, and one panned to the right. ![]() It’s important not to over-do it when it comes to saturation plug-ins because they tend to have a multiplicative effect. You can see what that looks like in the image below: In the case of adding ambience on vocals (I couldn’t recommend Singorama enough if you’re learning to sing), I might add just a little bit on to them, just to create somewhat of an atmospheric sound, for instance, I’ll set it to around 4-5 on the knob. Typically, I add ambience and reverb to many different types of tracks, including guitars, vocals, snare, and more. Go ahead and experiment with the reverb and ambience controls in Garageband and see what you come up with. The decay, essentially, is the time that it takes for the sound to finally stop making noise. In other words, when the source of the sound stops making that very same sound, there is a certain amount of time that it takes for the sound to stop reverberating throughout the room. Moreover, most reverbs that have a variety of controls provide a parameter that determines how much the sound “decays,” for example, Eventide’s SP2016 from Plugin Boutique (one of the best reverb plugins) has this feature. How Is Reverb Different From Ambience?Īs I briefly mentioned above, reverb simulates the natural sound reflections that would come with a particular type of room.Įxplained in another way, if you can imagine yourself hitting a snare drum in a church, the reverb is the way the soundwaves from the snare drum travel throughout the church, bouncing and crashing off the pews, the walls, and the glass windows.įor instance, if you take a look at all of the available pre-sets and settings of a reverb plug-in, you’ll notice they typically come with different kinds of rooms, like a church, a big room, a hallway, or a nightclub.Ī reverb, in contrast to the ambience, will have a long reverberating sound, rather than a short one. In other words, the ambience control is for any sound where you want it to continue sounding dry, but just a little bit of a 3D quality to it, with a thicker and slightly more ambiguous sound. If you increase the reverb to its maximum setting, you’ll notice that it sounds like the music is being played in a very large room, but if you turn that all the way down, and instead, turn up the ambiance control, it sounds like a different type of reverb: a shorter reverb, that creates somewhat of a three-dimensional sound, effectively thickening up the sound and making it sound more “ambient.” This is in contrast to a reverb, which, at its maximum setting, sounds very long, as if the sound is coming from a very large and very long room. It also makes the sound appear thicker, wider, and more atmospheric. Essentially, the Ambience effect in Garageband creates a three-dimensional sound on the track through the use of a very short reverb. ![]()
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