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manning1
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to 4 track and 8 track cassette and digital standalone users.
i'm going to describe a techique for getting a lot more tracks out of your
standalone multitrack recorder that lots of people ive known have used.
this will also save you a tone of work in track laying and time.
for the sceptics amongst you, try it once , and i think youll be surprised how much fuller your songs become.
band in a box (biab) is an auto accompianment generator.
as the name implies it generates a back up band. eg...drums, keys,
bass, guitar rhythm,(or other instruments of your choosing) and even melodies etc.
you can pick from hundreds of music styles.
so - instead of laboriously laying down say drums, bass, keys etc on your 4 track for example and chewing up
valuable limited tracks. fire up biab on a pc, and have it generate a back up band for you.
(you can even modify styles for example), then output through your sound cards stereo line
out to your 4 or 8 track cassette or whatever line input and record to two tracks.
by the time youve done this , you will have a very powerfull full sounding arrangement.
and literally this will save you hours of recording time.
one technique folks have used is to have two 4 track cassette units for example.
so you record the biab arrangement to 2 tracks of 4 track number one.
(which as ive said will be pretty darn powerfull). so now you have your bed tracks
done. then on the remaining two tracks add say your added live rhythm instruments.
then mixdown to the second 4 track to two tracks , this leaves you two blank tracks on your second
4 track for lead vocals.
now people with a 8 track digital standalone recorder could go even further. record the biab output to two tracks.
leaving 6 tracks on the 8 track digital recorder for live back up vocals, lead vocals,
lead guitar etc. and as you can mixdown internally on some 8 track digital recorders .
you could get even more. for example. if the biab output is on tracks
1 and 2 of the digital recorder, and youve filled up 6 more tracks -
you could bounce it all down say to tracks 7/8 on the digital recorder and STILL
have 6 more tracks to record on.
the foregoing techniques could save a major expensive upgrade to a 24 track standalone digital recorder.
keep an open mind. and youll find if you do it right using biab,
that you wont have to add a lot of tracks as the biab arrangement will be so full.
i hope this helps someone out there. its a trick lots of musicians ive known
have stumbled upon. for the sceptics - just try it !!
i'm going to describe a techique for getting a lot more tracks out of your
standalone multitrack recorder that lots of people ive known have used.
this will also save you a tone of work in track laying and time.
for the sceptics amongst you, try it once , and i think youll be surprised how much fuller your songs become.
band in a box (biab) is an auto accompianment generator.
as the name implies it generates a back up band. eg...drums, keys,
bass, guitar rhythm,(or other instruments of your choosing) and even melodies etc.
you can pick from hundreds of music styles.
so - instead of laboriously laying down say drums, bass, keys etc on your 4 track for example and chewing up
valuable limited tracks. fire up biab on a pc, and have it generate a back up band for you.
(you can even modify styles for example), then output through your sound cards stereo line
out to your 4 or 8 track cassette or whatever line input and record to two tracks.
by the time youve done this , you will have a very powerfull full sounding arrangement.
and literally this will save you hours of recording time.
one technique folks have used is to have two 4 track cassette units for example.
so you record the biab arrangement to 2 tracks of 4 track number one.
(which as ive said will be pretty darn powerfull). so now you have your bed tracks
done. then on the remaining two tracks add say your added live rhythm instruments.
then mixdown to the second 4 track to two tracks , this leaves you two blank tracks on your second
4 track for lead vocals.
now people with a 8 track digital standalone recorder could go even further. record the biab output to two tracks.
leaving 6 tracks on the 8 track digital recorder for live back up vocals, lead vocals,
lead guitar etc. and as you can mixdown internally on some 8 track digital recorders .
you could get even more. for example. if the biab output is on tracks
1 and 2 of the digital recorder, and youve filled up 6 more tracks -
you could bounce it all down say to tracks 7/8 on the digital recorder and STILL
have 6 more tracks to record on.
the foregoing techniques could save a major expensive upgrade to a 24 track standalone digital recorder.
keep an open mind. and youll find if you do it right using biab,
that you wont have to add a lot of tracks as the biab arrangement will be so full.
i hope this helps someone out there. its a trick lots of musicians ive known
have stumbled upon. for the sceptics - just try it !!
