for some reason GarageBand ’09 has reverb on the voices by default in Podcasts – This quick lesson shows you how to turn it off. There’s a lot more wrong with GarageBand ’09 for podcasting – the metronome is on, it doesn’t show the timer, instead it shows beats per minute, and number of beats, all kinds of annoying things are set wrong for podcasting. I recommend using Will P’s fantastic AppleScript he calls New Podcast. If you use this application script to launch GarageBand all those annoyances will be shut off by default. You can find this and other scripts for free download at iwillsite.110mb.com
Launch a new project
Double click on Podcast
Select the voice you want to use
1 – Click on the voice you want to use, it will turn blue
2 – Click on the “i” in the very bottom right to bring up the Real Instrument Menu
Edit the Real Instrument
Click on the Edit Tab
Turn off Reverb
The button to the left of Reverb will be bright blue, push it to toggle it off.
thank you!! this was a life-saver.
Thank you so much. This Really helped.
Needed this!
Gosh this was bothering me so bad. Thanks for the help and for the advice on AppleScript.
This doesn’t help me at all. The reverb and echo are “grayed out” and I can’t turn them off. They are off on the master track and everywhere else.
I too have the issue of the reverb and echo options in the “real instrument” “Edit” menu being “grayed out”. I have this goofy feeling that the problem stems from an inadvertent keystroke or some nonsense like that. It’s such a particular and – as such – difficult thing to research. I do hope someone can lead us to the answer! If I find it, I’ll be sure to post.
It’s 2020, and I have the same problem… Went through all the steps to turn all effects off, and there is still a “slap-back” sounding effect on… Why would any recording program put in automatic effects… Terrible idea… I want to record my tracks dry, and add any effects later.