Help me manage the time to record full album in 5 days
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Joshua Wickman
Yes Sir!
I can't imagine trying to record a screamer doing 8 songs in a single day. Be very careful he doesn't blow out his voice or your really fucked.
KillFrenzy
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It all comes to what the band needs and how prepared they are.
They have to be really good players an know their parts to a point they can record to a metronome only.
Their instruments bust be in pristine shape do you don't waste time tuning every chord.
Doing song by song helps the musicians (specially the vocals) a lot so they don't get too tired.
Try to have someone help you at least during tracking.
Hope for the songs to be kinda simple. Orchestral arrangements and a million guitar/vocal tracks won't help you.
In this case, spend a little less time on tracking and more time on editing assuming you'll do this - and mixing - after they are gone.
Talk to the band a lot before the process begins to make sure you have everything you need to work with; the points I mentioned and anything you find necessary and useful, including every step of the tracking process.
I think that with good planing you can track everything in 5 days. Oh.. and don't work 15h/day. Even if the band has very good music made by fellows that are easy to work with, I'll wanna day by the end of day 3.. maybe before it.
Best of luck to you. Let us know how it worked out.
They have to be really good players an know their parts to a point they can record to a metronome only.
Their instruments bust be in pristine shape do you don't waste time tuning every chord.
Doing song by song helps the musicians (specially the vocals) a lot so they don't get too tired.
Try to have someone help you at least during tracking.
Hope for the songs to be kinda simple. Orchestral arrangements and a million guitar/vocal tracks won't help you.
In this case, spend a little less time on tracking and more time on editing assuming you'll do this - and mixing - after they are gone.
Talk to the band a lot before the process begins to make sure you have everything you need to work with; the points I mentioned and anything you find necessary and useful, including every step of the tracking process.
I think that with good planing you can track everything in 5 days. Oh.. and don't work 15h/day. Even if the band has very good music made by fellows that are easy to work with, I'll wanna day by the end of day 3.. maybe before it.
Best of luck to you. Let us know how it worked out.
+1 to the 1 song at a time approach in this situation
on top of the other benefits, this can help save you time by having each player get his instrument/shit together while the other guy is doing his part. as soon as guitars get done, you should be able to unplug, and go right into the bass. as soon as that's done, unplug and go straight into vocals. what you're trying to do is tough, but not impossible.
on top of the other benefits, this can help save you time by having each player get his instrument/shit together while the other guy is doing his part. as soon as guitars get done, you should be able to unplug, and go right into the bass. as soon as that's done, unplug and go straight into vocals. what you're trying to do is tough, but not impossible.
cfh11
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we just did this EP (also 8 songs) in 3 days:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...ased-ffo-pennywise-nofx-bad-religion-etc.html
we did the basic tracking live on the first day, followed by vocals for half the songs. 2nd day was overdubs on 1st guitar and bass, 2nd guitar track, and the rest of the vocals. 3rd day was mixing and mastering. first 2 days were 10 hour days and last was only 5-6 hours.
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...ased-ffo-pennywise-nofx-bad-religion-etc.html
we did the basic tracking live on the first day, followed by vocals for half the songs. 2nd day was overdubs on 1st guitar and bass, 2nd guitar track, and the rest of the vocals. 3rd day was mixing and mastering. first 2 days were 10 hour days and last was only 5-6 hours.
Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
Honestly I personally wouldn't be willing to do a full album unless they booked lockout consecutive days at subcat (where I freelance).
I would want to track everything at the same time and do overdubs after the fact, but I would also want everyone in separate rooms for bleed control.
Even doing it that way, I think I would want to rage quit.
I would want to track everything at the same time and do overdubs after the fact, but I would also want everyone in separate rooms for bleed control.
Even doing it that way, I think I would want to rage quit.
I wish some of the bands I record would see this thread.
I had a band book 2 days to do 4 tracks. They were tracking drums, bass and 1 guitar live and when they arrived it turned into a 6 song album, average song length of about 12 minutes. We got the basics down and the guitar rhythm double tracks in the 2 days but no lead guitars or vocals. They freaked out that they didn't get it finished and started blaming me for "equipment failure" where they claim we lost most of a day. That was the set up time, which they never factored into their plans and now it was my fault.
Had similar situations with bands and trying to do 2-3 songs in 1 day leading to not enough time spent on getting good takes or on getting good tones. What I find usually happens in this situation is the band will end up ditching the songs that don't get the time and effort put in at the tracking stage anyways so it's pointless to try and rush it.
I had a band book 2 days to do 4 tracks. They were tracking drums, bass and 1 guitar live and when they arrived it turned into a 6 song album, average song length of about 12 minutes. We got the basics down and the guitar rhythm double tracks in the 2 days but no lead guitars or vocals. They freaked out that they didn't get it finished and started blaming me for "equipment failure" where they claim we lost most of a day. That was the set up time, which they never factored into their plans and now it was my fault.
Had similar situations with bands and trying to do 2-3 songs in 1 day leading to not enough time spent on getting good takes or on getting good tones. What I find usually happens in this situation is the band will end up ditching the songs that don't get the time and effort put in at the tracking stage anyways so it's pointless to try and rush it.
Loren Littlejohn
Lover of all boobage.
I'm pretty up front about the setup time of things. I'm pretty blunt about instruments not being up to par for recording either.
You really have to hold people's hands.
You really have to hold people's hands.
