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i don't know if this has been asked before...but what is the highest track count you've had to track in a session? when i say track i mean actually tracking...no cutting and pasting tracks. it would be interesting to know how many and how long it took to finish the project.
 
Mm, probably Relativity's newest internet-EP with 8 tracks :lol: 6 tracks of drums and 2 tracks of guitars. The vocals weren't recorded by me.

Most of my projects only have real guitars and vocals, everything else is programmed, so the tracked track count stays very low. If all my tracks would be tracked, the track count would be around 11 (drums) + 5 (guitars) + 1 (bass) + 2 (vocals) + 5 (synths) = 24.
 
Don't know what the highest number was but usually (when tracking) I have something like 16 Drumtracks 4 rh-git (by 2 mics+ 1 Di per track=12 in total), 1 Bass, 4-15 vox...
so approximately an average of 30-40 audiotracks...
during mixing I usually work with like 65 tracks (including groups and Fx etc)...

may vary from project to project though.



thinking about it.. I think the highest number might have been this recording:

Laila - Medley


(all real instruments - cept the remix of course...)


Huge live-recording incl. 3 percussionists, Bass, Piano, Strings, special instruments like monochord, flutes, kalimba, marimba, sax, sitar...name it+ many percussion overdubs etc...
don't remember how many tracks in total though...had like 4 or 5 rooms in the studio viedeo-connected and they all played live, improvised and jammed together....funny experience ;)

some really top-notch studio-musicians though (Conny Sommer, Benjamin Hüllenkremer, etc.)..

3 days for 10 songs...(7 songs had to be written in the studio etc)...one of the strangest but most interesting productions I've been involved in....the only production that was as strange (or even stranger) was in the djungle of thailand...;)
 
I group a lot of stuff but my standard project templates are for 48 and 72 tracks depending on how mad I've gone in layering the guitars. I just did a mix for a friend which hit 96 tracks, but I go mad dealing with all those so I generally re-route down to 24 group tracks/busses + a few FX channels so it's manageable at mixdown.
 
i did a test mix for Cradle Of Filth's Thornography and the track count of the song i was working on was over 100. Andy eventually landed the job on that mix and told me that many of the other songs had similar track counts.
 
anywhere from 24-150. Right now I'm mixing a song that's about 165, but it's got a ton of stereo loops and synths....so those add up fast.

I'd say my average is 50 tracks.
 
With scratch tracks, guitars/bass+Di's, Drums+triggers, and multiple vocal takes, I end up with around 60. I always start a drum buss and start mixing on that, before tracking anything else, I can't resist!:heh: Shit gets cloned quick!
 
AudioPhile777 said:
When I used to use Cubase, I would have AT LEAST 48-50 tracks...

Since switching to PTLE... 32.. 32... and on my last one... 32...

I'm looking into the MPTK... but $500 for 16 more tracks... i dunno...
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I really enjoy using Tools but goddamnit, digidesign needs to eat a barrel of death
 
This is going to be the question no one wants to answer but for anything that is over 100 tracks, what are you filing them with??

No ones gonna wanna post a track listing but Id love to see one
 
About 65 for me: It was a rap/metal track. The usual drums/bass/guitar stuff, playing a fairly simple part. Then we layered in all these triple-tracked wraparound vocals, all over the place. It got pretty intense.

The track was called "Rose City Hustlaz" and is on my myspace player if anyone wants to check it out.

-0z-
 
Torniojaws said:
I'm sure at least half of those tracks are a single sample that plays once in the track, with no effects or anything.
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No, I'd know how to put them on one single track if they don't overlap, believe it or not ;) But a little more than 100 of them were choirs, about 20 were violins, etc... The count goes up quickly. And before you ask, yes of course I eventually did some mixdown of those at some point :goggly:
 
You guys are obviously all amateurs. I heard someone at the Sonar forum say that if you have more than 12 tracks there's something fundamentally wrong with the arrangement, and you should start all over again.

:erk:

Needless to say, I didn't even bother to answer his post.
 
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