The Bass Geek

“Besides the bass isn’t a difficult instrument to play. It’s one step up from the kazoo isn’t it?”

*sigh*

If I’m whoever got suckered into the bass gig, I’d be tripping Mustaine with my cord at every opportunity.

He should try playing kazoo and bass at the same time. I have, and it’s not easy.

The production of the IMN podcast doesn’t usually involve the use of Garageband - normally, I just take our chattering off of the recorder we use and dump it into Soundtrack Pro for all of the clip sequencing and audio manipulation and such. This week, though, we recorded straight to my laptop using GB, and I was fully prepared to go through the steps I’d used before:

1. Perform the cuts and track insertion in Garageband
2. Export final file to iTunes as an AIFF file
3. Wonder again why I can’t just export the file straight from GB to the disk
4. Watch as iTunes automatically adds a copy of my new podcast to the library and begins to play it
5. Move the final file from my iTunes folder to the podcast folder
6. Curse GB for having to do this
7. Remove the podcast file from my iTunes library and delete extraneous folders
8. Curse GB one more time
9. Open file in Soundtrack Pro and go from there

This is my first time producing in the relatively new version of GB, though, and they finally managed to get it right - export straight to disc as uncompressed audio that I can work with, not as a compressed mp3 or AAC. Skips iTunes entirely, meaning that I reduce my workflow by five or six steps and a lot of cursing. Joy.