Quick Start Guide

Last Update: 1/4/21

Applications Manual for Sound Recording with iOS

This screen shows you the Input Level (Mic Volume) slider control. It’s not calibrated, but behind it is a meter showing the

recording level with green, yellow and red indications. We set the slider to the mid position, which worked well for our

tests.

You access this track layout screen by clicking on the “…” icon from the Main Screen. With this App, you can record and

overdub multiple tracks although we only used it for Stereo.

The red LED at the top of the screen indicates when you are in Recording mode. There is no timecode display, but there is

a ruler calibrated in musical bars that indicates the relative time position in the track. GarageBand has many built in audio

effects such as echo, reverb and EQ.

Meter Check and Level Test

Garage Band’s front panel meter appears to be a VU meter, but actually it’s not. A standard VU meter would show a red

scale of 3dB above zero. Interestingly, our tests reveal that the ‘+5dB mark is in fact at +3dB. Maybe it is a VU meter!