last band i did..i ended up hanging out with them afew times before recording.. so when it came to tracking, we had a right laugh! was good times! oh, they were a metal band aswell
Easiest.stress free genre to record?
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KeithRT99
BOOSH.
anything that doesn't require edits. Jazz: I usually get the 95% sound before i hit record. Sometimes you have to make little tweaks in the mix with a little Eq for space.
Wow no one has mentioned hip hop yet? Get some rappers in that just record their music to a beat. Thats as easy as it gets.
FarBeyondMetal
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Yea true, but he was asking for a genre of MUSIC
Hip Hop is music regardless of who does or doesn't like it, tool.
Glenn Fricker
Very Metal &Very Bad News
Hardly. Every rapper I've ever worked with has no clue how to arrange a song. You spend more time mapping the track out than recording it.
Glenn Fricker
Very Metal &Very Bad News
The most stress-free recordings I've ever done were with Celtic groups. These guys have been playing since early childhood & are masters of their instruments. ...That & the gigs they play pay well, so they've got money to spend in the studio. ....and you get to record a lot of cool instruments that you might not get to work with in a metal project like tin whistles, low 'd' flutes, Bodhran, Cittern, all kinds of crazy shit. Hell, the lyrics are even more amazing than metal. Lots of "drink, fight, fuck" sort of stuff. Hilarious.
Skinny Viking
¯\(°_o)/¯ How do Lydian?
Bingo!
Do you have any idea how stress inducing a bad rapper / hip hop wannabe can be when they're tryin to "bust da rymz" and can't even follow the rhythm of the beat? Or how about trying to coax some life into their performance? Or how about (most importantly for a good recording) getting them to do both of the above WHILE enunciating clearly so you're not wasting time trying to track a mushmouth or wasting time trying to get said mushmouth to "pop" in the mix ...
Its not as easy as you might 1st think and again it all comes down to the same notion already covered in this thread ... you need to work with people with a good level of talent to reduce the stress factor in any project you jump into, regardless of style or genre
I'm sure this all is awful, but the thing that frightens me most about recording rap is that throaty "singing" the gangstaz sometimes do (and the associated utter lack of pitch and rhythm that undoubtedly accompanies it
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DM 3rd eye
New Metal Member
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
Classical music. Usually 4-8 mics, max 16 mics, rarely any close micing. The only thing is that you just need to be very organized and not fuck up, because if you do, it will cost you helluva lot to re-record them on your own expense.
yea right man
first off, vocals are typically the toughest thing to get right...2nd, most rappers are talentless dipshits who have NO clue what they're doing
i tried doing the rap thing a couple times, and quickly gave up on that one
cloy26
d00d
Acoustic singer songwriters... Stereo mic the acoustic and then track vocals. Throw some reverb on the vocal bus and boom.
Just record anyone who will want you to. I don't strictly record metal, obviously its what I am best at, but I would LOVE to record a jazz trio or something of the sort. the thought of ambiance and room mics and no replacement make me a happy camper. lol
Just record anyone who will want you to. I don't strictly record metal, obviously its what I am best at, but I would LOVE to record a jazz trio or something of the sort. the thought of ambiance and room mics and no replacement make me a happy camper. lol
And just about every jazz artist has their shit together as they are real musicians and know their theory - thus no editing is required.
EDIT: About the whole hip-hop/rapper thing. Yes I have heard about what happens most of the time with these, but when I was doing work experience in a recording studio, there was a rapper that came in (they weren't expecting him to show up) and he just rapped to a beat and with good timing too. When he got to the chorus part he sang with just the beat and absolutely no melodic instruments for pitch reference. Later when guitar was added we found that he had sang the entire chorus at perfect pitch with JUST the beat. I was pretty amazed by that, but I guess that was a once in a life-time experience.
Luckily an old friend of mine wants to come to me for some acoustic recordings so definitely a good starter point, just need to get some decent condensers and a bit of practice beforehand. But obviously I will take anything that i can get I'm not gonna shun any type of genre.
And just about every jazz artist has their shit together as they are real musicians and know their theory - thus no editing is required.
EDIT: About the whole hip-hop/rapper thing. Yes I have heard about what happens most of the time with these, but when I was doing work experience in a recording studio, there was a rapper that came in (they weren't expecting him to show up) and he just rapped to a beat and with good timing too. When he got to the chorus part he sang with just the beat and absolutely no melodic instruments for pitch reference. Later when guitar was added we found that he had sang the entire chorus at perfect pitch with JUST the beat. I was pretty amazed by that, but I guess that was a once in a life-time experience.
rap is easy money in the bank if you get someone who is talented...but most of those guys don't have a fucking clue on how to record, and won't listen to any of the shit you tell them
on top of that, there's TONS of bullshit that usually goes along with those guys...showing up late, cancelled sessions, drugs, guns, ho's, etc. etc.
JMarz
New Metal Member
Ain't nothin' wrong with drugs and ho's as long as they share!
I'm so happy you changed your fucking avatar, dude..
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