# Garage band (macbook) for recording an interview

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 12, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-band-macbook-for-recording-an-interview/665982 "2013-08-12T00:05:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-band-macbook-for-recording-an-interview/665982/1 "2013-08-12T00:05:05Z")

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I need to do a short interview tomorrow morning, and I need to record the interview on my macbook air (just for transcribing). I’ve never used garage band before, but just found that it records. Will that do? Anything I should know? Will it just keep recording for about half an hour, or will it stop after a few minutes or something? (I suppose it’s meant for recording a song, not an interview of half an hour…)

Any advice appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-band-macbook-for-recording-an-interview/665982/2 "2013-08-12T00:14:49Z")

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It will work fine. There’s no time limit that I know of. I’d recommend playing with Garageband beforehand to get the hang of the interface. It has a built in metronome that’s turned on by default. If you don’t turn it off you’ll get a constant ticking throughout your recording.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-band-macbook-for-recording-an-interview/665982/3 "2013-08-12T00:25:41Z")

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You don’t happen to have an iPhone do you?  
It comes with a very nice recording app.

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**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garage-band-macbook-for-recording-an-interview/665982/4 "2013-08-12T00:26:19Z")

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> [@Doug\_K](#):
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> It has a built in metronome that’s turned on by default. If you don’t turn it off you’ll get a constant ticking throughout your recording.

Ha, that’s just the sort of thing I need to know! I turned it off. 😛 Brilliant, thank you!

Other than that, it seems pretty straightforward. Press the button and off we go. I hope it saves it properly…

ETA: Sorry **Beowulff** , we simulposted. I don’t have an iPhone, and my phone is pretty rubbish. Sadly.