- Jun 5, 2010
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Hi guys,
I'm new to the forum (not really its one year that I lurk) I decided to open an account in order to ask what you guys do when the drummer cannot play with a click track.
I always had the fortune to record drummers that can play with a click track, sometimes on the spot and other times
a bit out (nothing that elastic audio or beat detective can't repair).
Last week I was ready to record a death band, Ive done guide tracks a month before for the drummer in order to practice.
I spoke with the drummer one week before the recording and he told me that everything was great. The day of
the recording we started to divided the song in sections, the song tempo 210 BPM double time 420 6/8 meter, and a couple of changes (not really big)
210 BPM 3/4 meter.
The drummer found difficult one section so we moved on, we get down 4 section not perfect but with a touch of BD sounded ok.
Then we moved to the Double tempo blast and disaster....everything it's all over the place the drummer cannot do it
so we spent hours try to loop the section, split down to 16 bar, try only a single kick, nothing worked so I took a little
section of 8 bars that was not bad and BD and then copy and paste it....the band obviously was not happy at all and decided to get back to practice.
My question is what you do in this kind of situation from the engineer point of view?
Any suggestion will make my life easier for the next time that happen.
I'm new to the forum (not really its one year that I lurk) I decided to open an account in order to ask what you guys do when the drummer cannot play with a click track.
I always had the fortune to record drummers that can play with a click track, sometimes on the spot and other times
a bit out (nothing that elastic audio or beat detective can't repair).
Last week I was ready to record a death band, Ive done guide tracks a month before for the drummer in order to practice.
I spoke with the drummer one week before the recording and he told me that everything was great. The day of
the recording we started to divided the song in sections, the song tempo 210 BPM double time 420 6/8 meter, and a couple of changes (not really big)
210 BPM 3/4 meter.
The drummer found difficult one section so we moved on, we get down 4 section not perfect but with a touch of BD sounded ok.
Then we moved to the Double tempo blast and disaster....everything it's all over the place the drummer cannot do it
so we spent hours try to loop the section, split down to 16 bar, try only a single kick, nothing worked so I took a little
section of 8 bars that was not bad and BD and then copy and paste it....the band obviously was not happy at all and decided to get back to practice.
My question is what you do in this kind of situation from the engineer point of view?
Any suggestion will make my life easier for the next time that happen.