Vurt said:
Vox, this might be something I could get into for the fun of it. Would you mind going into some detail about sequencers and the like. Basically, how the hell do you do it?
Well Basically... You have drum sounds in a Drum Machine or in a sampler.... Expensive drum machines and samplers have 8 outputs usually...
You assign all the different drum sounds to a different soutput and run them all into there own tracks on the recorder..
The Midi of your sample/sound module is hooked up to some sort of a sequencer, for arguments sake, lets say Cubase or something....
You either use pads are just play on the keys.....And..
You play along by hand to a clicktrack,(jus bass drum and snare and toms.. and then when your done, you quantize it all to lock it in perfect time...
Then when you have it the way you want it... mute the click track or do away with it, and then record the "beat" onto the tape...
Then... A drummer, or in alot of cases (ahem) a producer sits down and plays the high hat onto a seperate empty tack, by hand... (I mean a real live hi hat)... Then real live cymbals are recorded.. Usually 2 -4 different cymbals and all onto there own tracks and performed seperately, so as to get no bleeding...( and they are later panned all over the place..)
It slightly varies, but this is the most common method for rock...
I do know for a fact that Mutt Lange used an older verson of Cubase or something similar, loaded into an Atari, and used
an Akai S1000 Sampler, on Bryan Adams album "Waking up the Neighbours"
Same album with the Hit "Everything I do, I do it for you..", and "Can't stop this thing we started"
That whole album including those hits was done by the exact same method as I described above... I know cause Bob Clearmountain told me personally.. (I picked his brain about some Mutt stuff, cause they worked together on that album.)
All of my newer songs at NWR were done with that method also..
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..Joe