Recording Offset

[panoramical]

Hi,
I was wondering how I do this...
I want to have the metronome beat a bar before Recording actually starts in Cool Edit...is there a way to do this?
Thanks

[thajeremy]

I doubt you can do that...I just usually have the person who I happen to be recording to count off so that people laying down tracks after them will know when to start...then once the session is done, I clean up anything in the beginning that i dont want...I think thats probably the common practice...

jeremy

[lpdeluxe]

I use a drum machine a lot of times and the musicians count a couple of measures with it and then begin the song. As Thajeremy said, it's easy to clean up afterwards. I've never used the metronome function, but surely, if it can be recorded to a track, you can record it first.

[jdavidb]

yeah I make the sticks on the drum program click 8 beats with the "stick" instrument before the actual song drums begin. Without programmed drums, the drummer can do it. I thought our demos (from an analog studio in the 90's) were real cool with the (human) drummer actually laying into the hi hat for this. We didn't edit that out because raw stuff like that worked for us. Most people would probably rather just hear sticks clicking together and clear that out for the final mix.

It's a lot more comfortable to have 8 counts than 4, by the way.