Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

miked amps and put on another track. So that's 3 guitar sounds on the
one track, plus the clean...and when I bounced to one track to make
room for bass and vocals, I added SansAmp dist. to the clean track
also...5 guitar sounds total on dirty part. While testing out the
bounce, it was HUGE...especially panning different parts all over the
place, rad as can be.
The actual bounced track though? Ugh. At certain parts the guitars
seem to fade in an out, along with the cymbals...horrible phase
problems, too much stuff at certain freqs, etc. i guess.
However, if i set up a nice stereo mix and record it to my mixdown
deck, then run the lines back in to two tracks, I get the huge stereo
thing with no problems, and two tracks left over.
Plus, it's nondestructive... it's a drag if you do a bounce and then
later decide it sucks and have to tell the band, "Well, you're gonna
have to bring the drummer back with his drums and do it all over
again, 'cause this bounce mix is bad. Uh, sorry." This way, you've
still got the original 4 tracks to mess with again if you want.
me@ram.org (Ram Samudrala) writes:
[Think about using] a 2nd deck or DAT recorder (preferred) for
mixdown. I believe I say why this is good [in my recording tips Web
page-- see below] in terms of elimination of noise, but it is also
good to keep the original tracks around so you can remix and re-edit.
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