Recording

Here is some advice for all you budding audio engineers and DAW recordists out there: if you are working on a track with tempo changes make sure they are all correct before doing any overdubs.

I have been working on a project over the weekend that features several specific timing variations. I realised, after the whole track was nearly finished, that some of the tempo changes were almost, but not quite, exactly different to the way they were supposed to be.

Oh, what joy I felt when it dawned on me that after correcting them, everything else on the track would be out of synch. (Yes, I know I could have tried warping and time-stretching some of the audio, but, trust me, it wouldn’t work.)

Sometimes, when it hits you with depressing realisation that everything you have been working on for two days needs re-recording, you feel ever so slightly like giving up.

In fact I did. I spent the whole of yesterday with Audrey and two cold bottles of Chardonnay sitting upstairs at the control-room window watching the local twenty-six-stone spheroid women of lively odours and obliging virtue as they waddled by on the rain-soaked streets below.

Tagged as: ANGER!, Audio, Audio Recording, Home Studio, Humour, Music Production, New Album, Obesity, Pro Audio, Recording, Recording Studio

{ 2 comments }