Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
Recording Handbook - Hol.gr
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Q3.4 What should I know about doing an external pre-mix versus<br />
an internal bounce? (Or "Using a second recording device for<br />
mixdown?")<br />
An "internal bounce" is using the 4-track itself to reduce the number<br />
of tracks.<br />
An "external pre-mix" is playing to an external device (e.g. VCR, DAT<br />
recorder) in stereo, then playing that recording back into the 4-track<br />
onto two tracks. This leaves two tracks free.<br />
sratte@mindvox.phantom.com (Swamp Ratte) writes:<br />
Somebody was asking why you'd wanna do an external pre-mix and return<br />
it instead of doing an internal bounce. Well, I've recently started<br />
running into problems doing bounces with my Tascam Porta Two.<br />
This band's demo I've been doing, we definitely want a huge gigantic<br />
wall-of-fuzz-guitar sound. Thing is, it's just one guitarist with no<br />
real leads, just clean parts and dirty parts (it's pop-punk music).<br />
So we laid a track of all-clean, straight through the songs. Then set<br />
up two half-stacks with different distortion sounds and EQ setups on<br />
each one. Ran a line splitter on the guitar out so one went to both<br />
amps and one line went into a SansAmp and then was mixed in with the<br />
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