Hi,
I have been lurking this site for years and I've run into an odd situation with one of my new songs that maybe someone with more experience could help with.
A little background. I have recorded one CD with "some" decent results After recording that CD, I wanted to shoot myself in the face so I took about 5 years off. I met a new lead guitar player who wanted to knock some ideas around and we ended up writting 13 new songs over the last 3 months, of which most don't make me physically ill. We did record them singer songer writter style with just an acoustic and vocals through a TL103 to "remember" them as we wrote them.
Today we tried to track what we think is the best song of the 13 new ones. It's tempo is all over the place. The verse sections are around 85 bpm and when the bridge starts the tempo changes to about 95 to 100 bmp. At the end of the song, out of the bridge/chorus the song sort of rocks out with the tempo going up to maybe 105 bpm.
I tried to lay a click for each section and record that (I am a drummer first, guitar/vocals next) so it's driving me crazy. The orgional rough take sounds good to me, but trying to "nail" the timing to a click is NOT working at all. I hate the idea of recording without a click but it seems it's the only way.
What are your experiences recording REAL tracks without a click/clock?
I have been lurking this site for years and I've run into an odd situation with one of my new songs that maybe someone with more experience could help with.
A little background. I have recorded one CD with "some" decent results After recording that CD, I wanted to shoot myself in the face so I took about 5 years off. I met a new lead guitar player who wanted to knock some ideas around and we ended up writting 13 new songs over the last 3 months, of which most don't make me physically ill. We did record them singer songer writter style with just an acoustic and vocals through a TL103 to "remember" them as we wrote them.
Today we tried to track what we think is the best song of the 13 new ones. It's tempo is all over the place. The verse sections are around 85 bpm and when the bridge starts the tempo changes to about 95 to 100 bmp. At the end of the song, out of the bridge/chorus the song sort of rocks out with the tempo going up to maybe 105 bpm.
I tried to lay a click for each section and record that (I am a drummer first, guitar/vocals next) so it's driving me crazy. The orgional rough take sounds good to me, but trying to "nail" the timing to a click is NOT working at all. I hate the idea of recording without a click but it seems it's the only way.
What are your experiences recording REAL tracks without a click/clock?