If drums are tracked first, what is the drummer listening into the headphones?

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for a long period of time, i thought i had a neat picture of the tracking process with drums.

But in the last 3 months i started buying programs, tutorials, and watching online trainings looking for 1 single comment on this section. ( couldn't find anything ).

I even feel stupid... i even want to retrack everything i've recorded in the past.


What i really want to know is...

What's the most common process used in studios for drum tracking ?
besides de METRONOME in the headphones...

the drummer should be playing along with the bassist ?,
even if the bass track is going to be overdubbed later ?

should i make the drummer play with all the members of the band,
even if everything is going to be overdubbed later ?





I don't know....
i give up...


be gentle.
Peace.
 
It's all down to yours and the bands preference.

When i'm recording a band, i have the drummer and bassist together with the drummer having a click track in the headphones.

If i have the space to record the bassist and drums together (Enough space to stop any bleeding), then i'll do that. If not, i'll just record the bassist again at a later point.
 
metronome is the most common, without a click from recorder, have fun lining up everything later
 
I don't know what your setup is but, I record the drums and the bass along with a guitar at the same time, and in the same room. I feed the headphone out from the amps to my Quattro "IN" and feed their headphones from the Quattro "OUT".
They can all hear the guitar and bass mix in the headphones and the drums just bleed through. Before I had the Quattro I recorded the guitar first, (but with the drummer playing along..I only recorded the guitar though.)and fed it back to the drummer for the next track. I know this was not the way most would do it but I am still learning!

Cheers!
 
most bands are used to playing together. that is the idea of a band (to play music together). you cant really go wrong with tracking the whole band at once. now, if your sound card only has 2 inputs, that is a different story..

as far as click, this is not something you want to throw at the drummer the day of the recording if he has NEVER played with one. the session will go downhill VERY quickly. there is nothing wrong with recording without a click...
 
For me Since I play every thing my self I usually Record the drums first without any Click track (they throw me off) and just play the beat by memory with the song going through my head...

I then usually record bass over the drums and then do guitars and leads and lastly Vocals....

If you have a band that is really tight I would just record everything at the same time accept for Vocals and do them last.....


Cheers
 
it's kind of an unwritten rule that you're supposed to record drums first, to a click track, but I (and many others it seems) find it much easier to get a good drum track down once everything else is recorded, or at least untill a considerable ammount is down. As long as you record everything to a click track, it doesn't really matter what order you do it in, only preference.
 
I record a trash rhythm guitar part to a click track. Then I add a trash vocal track on top of that. If my guitar part was off somewhere on the click then I'll edit it to where it's close.

After that I then lay down the real drums with the drummer hearing the click and the trash guitar/vocals. There are tons of ways to do it of course but I really like that one. Makes it easy on the drummer. After adding the bass then I'll go back and redo real tracks for the guitar...and so on.
 
I do similar to what Almy does. Lay down a "scratch track" then record drums to it. For me it is usualy rythm guitar and vocals, either to a click or to a drum track from a keyboard, just to keep the track on time. The scratch track doesn't have to be perfect but it does need to be very close on timing. It serves mainly as a reference for any pauses or changes. Most drummers can play along to this type of track with few if any problems. The order that tracks are recorded in is up to the individual but for me, this is the easiest way to get the drum track(s) down first.
 
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