#1626259 - 01/05/01 07:53 PM
so where do you start
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big K
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okay so I am going to be recoding my first cd in the next couple of weeks. The gear and tech aside, where do I start , how do you run a recording session. I just don't know where to start any sugustions.
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#1626260 - 01/06/01 01:27 AM
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The most important thing to remember when running a session is to relax. If you keep thinking the "time is money" mantra, you'll be so tense that nothing will get done. I've always run my own sessions fairly loosely. Unless I have something that HAS to be in the tune, like a specific riff, I let the players bring themselves to the music. I've never been above taking suggestions and have never thought I knew it all. The best example is that there was a set of finger cymbals in the control room. In a case of devine inspiration, we used them on a very etherial song and they fit perfectly. If we hadn't seen them in the control room we never would have crossed our minds to use them. Absolutely, I can't emphasize enough that more stuff gets accomplished if you and the other playerx are relaxed.
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#1626261 - 01/06/01 02:28 PM
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Doctor Al
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The parameters of your question are a little wide - can you be more specific? Provide more details?
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#1626262 - 01/06/01 08:43 PM
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Ah yes don't you just love the " life universe and everything " questions. Okay so I have been doing live shows for about 6 years, but I have never producted a cd, and have little recording exp. we will be using a lot of synths, and the music is a new age "yanni" style, with lots of over dubs. I was just wondering what the prosess is , I know that you usally start with recording then mixing then mastering. but I am at a loss because with only 2 guys doing the music we need to do a part, then play that back add the next part, play them both back add next part..... but there is offten no base track(ie drums) to lay out the whole thing. I would like to use midi, but equipment issues might prevent that. I am just trying to figure out where to start, so we have all this gear(synths, ADATS cubase nuendo, but no sound card  , and pizza), I can use most of it then it comes time to start recording and I don't know what to tell then, I can't really say "hay well start with the drum track" because in the songs the drums would not come in until the 20 th bar and the they leave until the end....ect. they often change instements half way through the song as well. I guess I have blabed on long enough, I just need to figure out how to provide some diretion when it comes time to record. thankx for your time.
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#1626263 - 01/06/01 09:27 PM
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Sounds like the first thing you'd need is a click track to keep your timing steady. Usually best to start with rhythm tracks and build on them.
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#1626264 - 01/07/01 02:23 AM
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ya really gotta prepare this with a sequencer of some sort. It's like pre-production - its an incredible waste of money to go into a studio and start from scratch doing what you describe. Buy a sequencer and pre-program all these parts you're talking about. AKAI makes a sequencer/drum machine for example. Some keyboards have sequencers built right into them. The economics demand that you come in prepared like that. Than it's just a matter of dumping to tape ot hard disk, mixing and mastering.
Good luck
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