I am going to be recording soon and have little experience with metronomes. I only know how to count basic time signatures of 4, pretty much, and I have some song-parts that are in an unconventional time signature, how do I find which one it is? Is there a site that shows examples of different time signatures or should I just mess around with the metronome until I find what it is? How do I learn how to count?
Recording/finding different time signatures with a metronome
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RAMI
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Tap along to the music while counting. Count how many times you tapped before you felt like saying "one" again. 
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Tap along to the music while counting. Count how many times you tapped before you felt like saying "one" again.
That's actually a good suggestion. You may not know the name of the signature in question, but you know how it runs. At the point you need the change, just count/tap in whichever way feels natural. Sometimes, I fall into unusual time signatures. I haven't got a clue what they are. All I know is that they don't feel like 4/4 {they may be for all I know}. I memorize the music so that I'm not caught up in counting.
VomitHatSteve
Hat STYLE. Not contents.
Tap along to the music while counting. Count how many times you tapped before you felt like saying "one" again.
Another +1 for Rami's suggestion. 90% of the time if you're having trouble with a technical aspect of music performance, the answer is "counting."