How to record songs on your iPhone or iPad

What’s going on, artists! Today I’m going to show you step by step how to record songs on your iPhone or iPad. Specifically we are going to use the mobile version of GarageBand (an iOS exclusive app). (If you want me to cover how to do this on the Android platform, let me know in the comment section!) This guide is specifically designed for rappers and singers who make Hip Hop, R&B (RnB), or Trap music. However, it can be used by anyone who wants to record vocals of their songs to instrumental beats with their iPhone or iPad devices.

Who am I?

My name is Carl Clark aka CCBeats, and I’m an American music producer, music composer, and music teacher.

I’ve always been involved with music since I was a young child, but I’ve been particularly passionate about making Hip Hop and R&B instrumentals since high school. There, one of my high school jazz band buddies introduced me to the love of my … I mean, DAW of my life – currently known as FL Studio. You know the DAW used by incredible producers like Metro Boomin, JetsonMade, and YoungKio. Btw, YoungKio made the beat for Old Town Road, a pretty impactful song! (And for those of you who may not know, DAW stands for digital audio workstation.)

As a music major at the University of North Texas (UNT), I took many music theory and aural skills classes to further develop my musicianship. I also learned how to set up and run ProTools recording sessions for rappers, singers, and musicians as a recording studio engineer at UNT’s College of Music.

Today, I work with independent artists to get the most out of their music, whether it’s providing Hip Hop and R&B beats, helping artists with their music craft, or educating on music business topics such as licensing beats. As an entrepreneur that’s been self-employed for over a decade, I understand what it takes to make a living with your musical talents and strive for independent artists to get there as well!

What you will need before starting

– an iOS device with some decent battery charge
*You don’t wanna start working on a project just to have the device die on you. I’m using an iPad Air 2. 

 – download your beat to your device
*all beats at www.ccbeats.net have a free download for non-profit use option

 – download and install GarageBand
*GarageBand takes up a lot more storage than the average app, so you might need to clear some space for it.

 – use any headphones (it’s often advised to use headphones without a mic input as that often results in a better sound, but this could vary depending on which headphones you use) 
*I’m an Android dude and I’m not a fan of all things Apple, but my favorite consumer headphones are Apple’s Earpods and Airpods. The hype is real. What can I say! Get a pair with the mic (I keep these in the car in case I need to answer calls) and a pair without the mic that you can have for music.

 – a decently quiet setup. Avoid room echo in your vocal recordings by not recording too close to hard surfaces like bare walls. Some artists consider doing one of the following to lower unwanted noise that may be picked up your devices internal microphone:
1) record in a closet
2) cut the air conditioning off
3) record away from a noisy computer fan
*unless you’re in a soundproof booth, you’ll need to make due with what you have. Once you hear these results, you might be quite impressed that you can make quality song recordings right from your iPhone or iPad! 😎 

Get GarageBand from the App Store

 This is what it looks like in the App Store.

GarageBand is a free DAW – digital audio workstation. (You’ll hear people spell this out D-A-W, or just say “daw” like the word “saw”.) A DAW is any software that allows you to record and edit audio. Each DAW has a different workflow and may be better or faster for certain audio tasks than others. But at the end of the day, all DAWs are tools and the impact of tools depends on who is using it.

Set up the vocal tracks via Audio Recorder

1) When you open GarageBand up you’ll be taken to a “Sound browser” menu. Scroll till you see the Audio Recorder. (Fyi, this is under the “Tracks” tab, not “Live Loops”. GarageBand defaults to show you Tracks.)

– click the Audio Recorder text or the Voice icon

*The iPhone and iPad versions of GarageBand are quite similar. This guide has pictures mostly from the iPad version, so please note that there are few differences in the interfaces. 

• The iPhone version has a Controls button on the upper right. It’s the circle knob with markers on the circumference. This button lets you toggle between the Fun (white) and Studio (blue) presets.
• On the iPhone version, you access the My Songs menu and the Audio Recorder settings through the dropdown menu triangle.

• Lastly, on the iPhone the settings cog gives access to Track Controls and Song Settings.

2) After step 1 (which was clicking on the Audio Recorder), you’ll end up on this screen that shows a bunch of presets to change how your voice sounds. It’s divided into 2 different categories. Fun and Studio. (It defaults to the Fun presets.) 

3) Put the device volume on 100% and then click volume down 4 times. This will lessen ear fatigue when you record. You’ll notice the volume slider in GarageBand syncs with the device volume slider.

4) plug in your headphones and tap the monitor ON/OFF toggle to ON so that you can hear what’s going on
*Some artists like to have one headphone in your ear instead of both. If possible, tuck the other headphone in your shirt. This will lower the chances of audio from the beat leaking out into your vocal recording.

Feel free to explore the different presets, but I’d start with the Radio Ready preset. Go to Studio > tap the current presets microphone icon in the center of the screen. Then go to Vocals (on the side) > Radio Ready. Click Done at the top right to close out the window.

Mic placement

Mic placement is important to get a nice sounding recording. Simply hold the microphone about 4-8 inches away and slightly to the side from your iPhone or iPad. If you hold the phone too close, you might hear a lot of plosives. (Plosives are strong gusts of air caused by speaking/singing words that start with the letter “p”). Pop filters help get rid of plosives too, but you may be able to get away with not using one. You’ll have to try it and see! Rapping/singing at a side angle, will help you avoid sibilance. (Sibilance describes high-pitched raspy sounds that you get when recording words with the “s” sound).

Import the beat

Now that we have our vocal preset selected and our mic ready for action, we need to bring in the instrumental. Go to the Tracks view.

Prepare your session so that you can properly import the beat by tapping the little plus icon at the top right corner. Then tap where it says “8 bars”.

Lastly, set the number of bars to automatic. This stretches the songs loop (in bars) to match the number of bars in the beat. GarageBand defaults to a 8 bar loop, but the average song length of 3:30 may have over 100 bars of music. (8 bar intro, 8 bar hook, 16 bar verse, 8 bar hook, 16 bar verse, etc.)

Make sure your beat is already downloaded to your device. If you need quality Hip Hop or R&B beats, go to www.ccbeats.net. Download a free version of the beat by tapping the downward arrow icon to the right of the beat name. Once a beat is downloaded to your device, hit the loop icon (#1), tap Files (#2), and tap Browse items from the Files app (#3). After you select your file from the browser, it will appear in the file list in GarageBand. 

You can tap the file name to preview the audio. (Notice the icon of the file, on the left side of the file name, is now a set of blue bars that move to the music.) Tap the file name to stop the audio preview.

Once you see the beat you want to use, long press the file name until it becomes a draggable icon. You can then drag it into the Track timeline (the main workspace area). Make sure you drag the beat over to the left edge. That way the instrumental will start at the beginning of the song, which is considered beat 1.

The beat will import into the workspace. After the beat is imported, you’ll see the beat’s file name and the waveform. You’ll also notice the beat has its own track.

The Track header is the icon part, squared in red below. Long press, drag, and drop the microphone icon of the Track header so the beat is above the vocal track(s). This will help organize the visual arrangement of your session. By keeping the instrumental at the top and your vocals underneath, it’ll be easier to see what’s going on.

 

A couple of notes on importing your beat:

1. Double-tap the mic icon in the Track Header area to quickly go back to the Audio Recorder settings screen. This is where you can change the sound of your voice with the microphone presets. MAKE SURE the instrumental is on the “Clean” preset (from the Fun category) instead of the “Radio Ready” preset. This will ensure that there are no additional effects on the beat.

2. So far in this article, we set a vocal track as the first track. We then imported the beat as the next track, then dragged the beat to the top. I went in that order to follow the way GarageBand naturally reveals its interface to the user. However, you can also set the first Audio Recorder track to use the Clean preset and have it ready for the beat. Either way works. But Importing the beat to the initial track gives you the organized visual arrangement that I spoke of earlier. And you can skip the small additional step of dragging the track with the beat to the top. Honestly, that step is so minute it really doesn’t matter. I more want you to know that the order is flexible, just keep your beat channel without effects. With the preset on Clean, go to the Tracks view by clicking the icon, tap the plus icon (in the upper right corner), tap the text that says “8 bars” and change that to Automatic. Then import your beat’s audio file by tapping the loop icon. To add tracks to record vocals, tap the plus icon in the lower left in the Track Header section. You can then add another Audio Recorder with the desired vocal preset. Also know that the Track Header section can be expanded or collapsed by dragging it to the left or right. (The pic below shows the Track Header collapsed).

One final note on importing the beat

Once the beat is imported, you’ll want to make sure the beat isn’t clipping. Clipping is when audio gets loud enough to become distorted. Unless you are going for a specific effect, audio clipping is generally avoided in most recorded music in general. If your beat is clipping before recording vocals, that means the beat was too loud to begin with. In that case you’ll need to drag the volume slider down so that the beat doesn’t clip.

When the beat (or any audio track) is clipping, the majority of audio programs will show a small bit of red at the top of that track’s mixing channel. For GarageBand, audio clipping is shown in red on the left side of the screen, where the Track Headers volume meter is.

The volume meter at the top of GarageBand’s interface will show all volume peaks. These peaks may or may not include clipping. These will always be yellow-orange in color and will only stay for a couple of seconds before going. Keeping an eye on this meter is good for general principle, but it’s not where you want to look to see if your audio is doing any clipping.

Keep an eye out for any red at the top of the meter of any track headers. This red at the top of the mixing channel (well, technically the far right side of the mixing channel) indicates audio clipping. This red indicator will stay until the audio volume has been adjusted. See pic below.

When audio clipping happens, simply turn the volume down a bit on that channel til there’s no clipping. You don’t want to start recording vocals over a beat that is already too loud.

Sometimes you’ll get beats that have been mastered already. This means these beats have already maxed out the sonic space available and there’s not much room to add vocals and do a proper mastering phase. Mastering in this case is not about being incredible at making a beat, but about making a beat sound as clear and as loud as possible.

Every producer will have a different approach to mastering his or her beats. Depending on how that producer mastered the beat, you might see that there is no clipping, there may be a small amount of clipping, or you may see a ton of clipping. 

And then, sometimes you’ll get beats that are not mastered at all. These sound much quieter, but leave what’s called “headroom” in the beat. When a beat has headroom, it’s a good thing because when you add the vocals, you’ll actually have some room in the sonic space to raise the volume of the beat and vocals collectively as one unit.

The free tagged downloads are mixed and mastered. That way you can easily hear all of the great details of the beat. This also means you’ll likely want to lower the volume of the beat as you add your vocals and record drafts of your songs. However, after demo-ing your song and when you’re ready to officially release it to your fans on streaming platforms, you can buy a license of the beat and get a mixed, but not mastered version of the beat. This mixed but not mastered version of the beat will sound quieter as mentioned earlier. But again, that’s to attain a proper mix with your vocals and the beat, and then have that mix mastered as a collective unit.

Now is a good time to get acclimated with all of those icons at the top. (Again, on iPhone since there is less space, a few of these options are stored in drop down menus instead.)

1 – My Songs
2 – Sound Browser
3 – Tracks View (or Instrument/Audio Recorder Settings view when the icon is a microphone)
4 – Track Controls (looks like a mixer faders)
5 – Undo button (long press to Redo an action)
6 – Jump timeline cursor back to start of song
7 – Play
8 – Record
9 – Volume
10 – Metronome aka the clicktrack for the steady beat of the song
11 – Song settings (set the key, BPM, etc)
12 – Info (SUPER helpful. Tap it to get screen-specific information as shown below.)

Finally, let’s record.

Recording a song on your iPhone or iPad will have a similar workflow as if you were using a computer. You familiarize yourself with the DAW’s interface, plan out which vocal effects you want to use for your song, import your beat, and finally, record and delete takes until you’re satisfied!

To get your record on, make sure you have the cursor in the song’s timeline where you want it. To bring the cursor to the start of the beat, you can either drag the cursor with the handle at the top or use the ‘back to the beginning’ icon to the left of the play button. Hit the red circular record button to record. When you finish recording press stop. You can then drag the right side of the clip to the left to not include unnecessary audio. Fyi, the audio clip you finish recording is called a region in Garage Band.

To add additional vocal layers or harmonies, hit the plus button at the bottom and add another Audio Recorder into your session. If you want to have another vocal layer with the same preset, you can tap on an existing microphone icon in the Track Header on the left and then tap Duplicate. You’ll then have another channel or lane to record a new audio region.

I’m sure you’ll have takes that you’ll want to do over. You can delete a take in several ways. Explore single or double tapping either Track Headers or individual clip regions to bring up a context menu that will include the option to Delete.

Double tap the Track Header icon (usually a picture of some type of microphone or instrument) to quickly go to a track’s corresponding Audio Recorder settings, where you can change presets or go to the track’s input settings to add presets from Inter-App Audio apps like Voloco. (More on this Inter-App Audio and Voloco discussed below!)

Happy recording!

Congratulations! You now know how to record songs with your iPhone or iPad!

At this point, you have what you need to start recording your songs! However, it’s a good idea to continue forward in this guide as we’ll explore vocal presets in a bit more detail. And we’ll close the guide out by explaining how to get the song out of GarageBand aka exporting the song out, so others can enjoy the music!

Which vocal effects or presets shall I use on my song?

As mentioned earlier, using the Radio Ready preset is a great start. It has a mix of the standard effects used on vocals already set up for you to start rapping or singing. The Lead Vocals preset has lots of reverb, which is great if you want to instantly sound like you’re performing in a large concert hall or stage. The Punchy Presence is definitely solid for rapping, but can also be a nice choice for singers.

 But what about the AutoTune tho?

 

I got ya! Under the Fun view of presets (as opposed to the Studio view), you’ll find the iconic AutoTune like preset called Extreme Tuning. If you want that T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Quavo, Post Malone, insert any modern rapper and many singers these days, consider this Extreme Tuning preset.

Note you can also get a decent AutoTune sound from the Pitch Correction knob on the Lead Vocals and Radio Ready presets. On those presets, AutoTune is defaulted to a subtle amount for subtle pitch correction or no pitch correction at all. Simply dial the knob all the way up if you want that iconic sound.

One VERY important concept needs to be understood to have a good AutoTune experience. Please understand that AutoTune requires you to input the key signature of the beat to work properly. (Eb Major/D# Major, A minor, Ab Minor/G# Minor, etc.) The producer of the beat should be able to provide that information for you. If not, you can download and install the Song Key Finder app.

 

 

Notice how the app states that the key signature of the beat is D# Major. Well, there’s a little music theory knowledge that will be quite helpful here. D# (D sharp) is the same as Eb (E flat). Sometimes you may see one in not the other, so it’s helpful to know certain key signatures are the same as far as AutoTune and other key signature based effects are concerned. Here’s a list of other key signatures that are the same but may have different names:

C# = Db

D# = Eb

F# = Gb

G# = Ab

A# = Bb

Check out this diagram showing the labeled keys of a piano to help you understand this concept even better.

You can see in this picture that C# is the same key as Db, D# is the same key as Eb, and so on. Lastly, you’ll need to know that keys are usually major or minor. Minor keys have a lowercase ‘m’ next to the key signature name ie. Am, Cm, F#m, Bbm, etc. Major keys are just a capital letter of the key it represents. A song in C major will just have a ‘C’ for the key signature name. B major is just ‘B’, D# major is just the key of ‘D#’, and so on. Key signatures (and chords) are assumed to be major unless a lower case ‘m’ is present or unless the word minor is explicitly stated.

Here is where you’ll set the key to get your AutoTune pitch correction working properly in GarageBand. In the upper right corner you can tap the Settings cog wheel icon and enter song information such as Key Signature, which ensures your AutoTune pitch corrects to the right key.

Final tips with presets

When it comes to presets in general, don’t be afraid to turn some knobs and experiment. When you make changes from a default preset, you’ll notice a dot next to the preset’s name. If you want to go back to the original setting of a given preset, go to the preset menu by tapping the name of the current preset (or the large preset icon in the center), tap a different preset, and then tap the originally desired preset again, that will reset the preset to its original settings before your undesired changes.

If you make changes that you like. You can save your changes, which will make those settings easily accessible for future use! To do this, make your changes, go to the preset menu, hit Save. Now you can name your preset and use it whenever you like!

Ok, GarageBand is pretty nice for a free mobile DAW (digital audio workstation aka program to record your songs). But, I need more presets for my vocals! Say no more, fam! In comes Voloco.

Recording in GarageBand while using all of the incredible presets from the Voloco app is a crazy nice combination. You’re gonna have to come out of your pockets a little but you’ll see it’s well worth it! Firstly, Voloco has a ton of great presets including multiple AutoTune presets that are very well done. At the time this was written, they had 49 presets! And if you’ve ever used the Harmonizer effect in the Voisey app, Voloco has a preset that comes extremely close to that. So much so that you’ll definitely be smiling when you hear your vocals processed with Voloco’s magic. Like seriously, their presets are so nice with it that you’ll wanna do a different song with each of the different presets they offer lol. I’m serious too. You’ll see! They have a 7 day free trial, and then after that, it’s $5/month ($60/year) or $25/year.

Here’s how you can incorporate Voloco’s presets in GarageBand:

Step 1 is to get Voloco from the App store.

When you first use Voloco you’ll have access to a small amount of presets, but you’ll need to sign up for one of their plans to unlock all of the presets. So take a moment to do that or you can start with the presets that they allow you to use for free. Here’s Voloco’s main interface. Click the plus at the bottom center to get started.

On this screen, make sure your Vocal Monitor is on so that you can hear yourself as you test out the different presets. Voloco gives the option to record video or audio, but we only need to process audio, so make sure the Audio toggle is on.

Since this app revolves around AutoTune and Harmony vocal effects, you want to make sure the Key is set correctly so that when you try out the (Vocal) Effect, your processed vocals will match the beat nicely!

As you browse through and test out the different presets, certain details/parameters of the selected preset are shown on the screen for a few seconds. Some presets will have adjustable parameters such as the Pitch correction strength in the red box below.

Take your time and have fun experimenting with the various presets they offer!

How to get Voisey’s Harmonizer effect on your GarageBand vocals

Please know that you’ll need a paid plan (or at least start the 7 day trial) to access the Harmonizer-like preset. Also note, this process is how you can use any presets from Voloco (and other Apps that support Inter-App Audio feature) on your GarageBand vocals.

In GarageBand make sure you have an Audio Recorder track on the Clean preset. Come back to Voloco and hit the Effect button to display the list of effects at the bottom of Voloco’s screen. Scroll over until we see the Sitar Hero category, and select the Interstellar preset. This preset sounds very close to Voisey’s Harmonizer vocal effect! 

Once that preset is selected, go back to GarageBand and go to the Audio Recorder settings of the track that you want the Harmonizer sound. Make sure the track is on the Clean preset. (If it’s not on the Clean preset, like in the picture below, you can do that after you import the Voloco preset.) Here we will go to the input settings, which looks like a tip of an instrument cable. Select Inter-App Audio > Effect > Voloco’s AB Filter. Click OK for the AB Filter popup screen. And bam! Now you have Voloco presets in your GarageBand vocals! 

You will now notice the input settings show that it’s using the audio from Voloco. You can tap the Voloco icon to immediately go back to the Voloco interface to modify or try a new preset in the Voloco app. 

Tips on recording songs with your iPhone or iPad’s internal mic

The internal microphone is going to be very sensitive and will pick up a lot of sounds and hiss from your environment. To help combat this, do the following. 

For the iPhone, try not to hold the phone really close to your mouth, instead put it about 6-8 inches away and to the side. When I say to the side, I mean hold the phone in front of and slightly above your shoulder as opposed to directly in front of your mouth. This reduces the amount of and the intensity of hard breaths and hard p sounds (called plosives) that will enter the mic. For the iPad, the same rules apply, but you’ll likely sit it down on a table due to the heavier weight of the device.

My song is ready now! What’s this “mixing and mastering” all about? 

You hear these terms all the time – and for good reason! A song that is not mixed nicely will have vocals that are hard to hear or that are too loud. This will make listeners have a hard time enjoying your song. A song that’s mastered too quietly will likely make a listener go to the next track. On the other hand, a song that’s mastered too loudly may distort your speakers with loud crackly sounds, could cause ear fatigue, and will ultimately cause fans to stop listening, period.

Mixing and mastering really warrants a guide on its own, as there are so many techniques out there. And then there is the fact that each recording program has various ways to achieve these techniques. You can even start your song in GarageBand for iOS, and then export the stems/trackouts (the individual audio tracks in your song) via “sharing the Project” and then import those files into various other recording programs that may offer faster workflows in the mixing and mastering process. 

And this is all done to taste!

I’ll give you a decent run down of mixing and mastering, specifically within GarageBand for iOS.

Mixing

Mixing is the process of ensuring that all of your different tracks and audio elements can be heard in a balanced and pleasing manner. This doesn’t necessarily mean that all vocal elements in your song need to be at the same loudness levels. It’s definitely ok to have certain vocals stand out more than others or be less more subtle than others. Mixing is more about making sure that all of your vocal elements sound clear and appropriate to your taste. This process is subjective and usually involves trial and error, listening on various systems, and getting constructive feedback. By sliding faders up and down, or turning rotary knobs clockwise and counter-clockwise, you’ll likely make some of the following adjustments on the various tracks in your session:

• Volume
• Panning – placing sounds in different places of a stereo field. (to the left, center, or right)
• EQ (equalization) – boosting and cutting certain frequencies (the highs, mids, lows, etc.)
• Echo (which is basically your Delay effect)
• Reverb (Vocal Hall) or Ambience – More reverb/ambience sounds like you’re singing in a larger room, less reverb/ambience sounds like a smaller room
• Compression – lowering the volume of the louder parts and raising the softer parts

(Eventually, you might employ certain techniques such as automating faders and knobs, using sidechains, and bypassing certain effects. In this particular guide we won’t be covering these techniques but I do want you to at least know that these concepts exist and may also be a part of the mixing process.)

Note: no one will be listening to your song’s individual vocal takes without the context of your other vocals and the instrumental beat, so it’s best to make any adjustments to the aforementioned effects while the other vocal takes and beat are still playing. That way you are mixing the individual elements in context of how your song will be heard by your fans!

Mastering

Mastering is the final stage where you usually work with the single stereo file or “2-track”, and instead of working with each sound individually, you process the entire song as one single track to make it ultimately clear and loud! The idea is that during mixing you create a nice version of your song, and during mastering, you take that nice version of a song, you make it loud enough to be on par with other commercial recordings, and you put any final effects on this “master” copy of the song.

By the way, the “master” copy is the final version of the song that you’ll use to make copies of and for distribution into digital stores and streaming services. 

In GarageBand you have 2 Master Effects that you can use or not use. The 2 effects are Echo (which is your Delay) and Reverb. These 2 effects have presets that you can choose and when you choose them, they will be applied to every single track in your project. However, you can then choose on a per track basis how much of that effect will be applied. For example, you can choose the Ambient Delay preset to be your Master Effects Echo effect preset, and either leave the Echo Master Effect at 0 or 50 or 100 or anything in between. Basically just know that even though you may have selected a preset for the Master Effects, you can still decide how much (if any at all) of that effect you want to put on each individual track.

I STRONGLY advise that you do not put any master effects on the track with the beat on it! That will make the entire beat have an undesired sound. But If you accidentally enabled the master effects and didn’t turn down the master effect on the track with the beat, there’s a good chance you’ll hear that beat sounds a little off! Ha! Just turn down the master effect on that track to 0 and you’ll be good.

One final very important thing to understand about GarageBand is that it automatically normalizes your song export. In the audio world, normalizing is the process of bringing digital audio to a peak of 0db. (Odb is also known as “unity” or “unity gain”.) Db is short for decibels and it’s one of the units used when measuring how loud or soft audio is. You usually want your mastered audio to be slightly under 0db, such as -0.1db or even -0.3db. Any digital audio that is louder than 0db results in clipping, which gives a distorted sound.

What this means for your song is that GarageBand’s auto-normalize feature fulfills the mastering part of your song as far as bringing volume levels up to the max and without distortion. That’s a good thing, but you can take your good song and make it great by either learning more about the mixing and mastering process, or, when the budget is right, take it to an audio engineer who mixes and masters.

There is a lot more that can be said about mixing and mastering. So stay tuned for future posts! 

OK, how can I hear my full length song outside of GarageBand?

All done with your song? Ready to listen to it outside of GarageBand and share it with the world? You’ll need to export, render, or save the song as a “song” file. All of these different phrases mean the same thing. In GarageBand, the My Songs button is the generic file icon button located at the top left. Anytime you press that button, your song’s progress is saved and you are taken to the My Songs screen.

Once you’re on the My Songs screen, long press on the song you want to export, tap Share, and then select Song. You’ll be given a list of audio quality options in either m4a (which is Apple’s mp3 equivalent), AIFF, or WAV. If you’re just checking out a draft of your song, the default High Quality option will be fine. But if you’re submitting your song to stores or you simply want the highest quality, select the WAV format. (AIFF is also high quality, but WAV is a more compatible file format than AIFF). 

Side note – If you’re sending your vocals to a mixing engineer you’ll need to share the Project which will entail each of your individual recordings similar to tracked out stems with beats.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of this guide! 🙌🎉💪👍

When you’re first starting out, it’s not really necessary to know what each and every knob, slider, preset, and audio sound effect does. But in time, you’ll be more and more acquainted with what you can do in GarageBand Mobile. Hopefully, this guide has given you a solid start to make quality sounding music directly from your iOS device, whether it’s an iPhone or iPad!

Can’t wait to hear your recordings!

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